If you have ever used the USDA Food Buying Guide, you may have noticed that it includes an Exhibit A Grains Tool. This tool works much the same way as the Exhibit A tool we have been discussing up to this point. Let’s take a quick look at this tool to see how it works.
The first thing you’ll notice upon entering this screen is the instructions dropdown. This provides a detailed description of how the tool works and what you can use it for. This goes beyond the scope of this video, so we recommend reading through these instructions if you plan to use this tool.
Unless you have an account where you can save your lists, you will not need to enter a product name or date in order to use this tool, so for this example we will skip this step. Since we are trying to calculate our ounce equivalents, we want to select, “Ounce Equivalent (oz eq) Grains” in step two.
We’ll then search for a keyword related to our product. As an example, let’s look for pop-tarts, or in this case toaster pastries. Since you found out how many ounces were in two, 55-gram frosted pop-tarts in the previous activity, let’s look at how many ounce equivalents are in two, 55-gram unfrosted pop-tarts.
We’ll start by entering in our total number of grams. So, for two, 55-gram pop-tarts we will enter in 110 grams. We then need to select our measurement unit, which is in grams, and our ounce equivalents are automatically calculated. Looking below, we can see that 110 grams of toaster pastry (unfrosted) provides 2-ounce equivalents of grain.
This is only a small portion of what the Food Buying Guide Exhibit A tool can do, if you want to learn more about it’s other uses, we highly encourage you to read through the instructions at the beginning of the tool.
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