SIMPLY SENSATIONAL Power Up With Pumpkin

(NAPSI)-Pumpkin is a nutritional powerhouse that can be savored all year long. Pumpkin is a rich source of fiber: One ½-cup serving of pumpkin provides 20 percent of your daily fiber requirement. In addition, fiber promotes regularity and heart health while helping you feel full and satisfied. Just a ½-cup serving provides more than 100 percent of your daily vitamin A requirement. Pumpkin is not only rich in nutrients; it is low in calories and fat, too. Available year-round, canned pumpkin can be added to yogurt, hot oatmeal or even tomato sauce--for a delicious, nutritious boost. Unleash the power of pumpkin all year long with these helpful tips: • “Plus up” your dishes with pumpkin: Stirring pumpkin into your sauces, soups or chili can help to reduce the sodium, fat and calories in a serving of your favorite dish. • Bake smarter: Reduce the fat in baked goods such as cookies, breads and cakes by substituting pumpkin for some or all the oil. This method of baking results in less-fattening, healthier and moister baked goods. • Perfect your snacks: Pumpkin is perfectly safe to eat straight out of the can; just stir LIBBY’S 100% Pure Pumpkin into peanut butter, applesauce, hot cocoa or other favorite snacks for an easy way to add a good source of nutrients to your diet. • Savor the taste of pumpkin year-round: Embrace the rich taste of pumpkin daily. Stir a little pumpkin into your life by adding it to mashed potatoes, peanut butter and corn muffin mix, or try a delicious pumpkin recipe such as an Everyday Pumpkin Parfait. EVERYDAY PUMPKIN PARFAIT (Makes 2 servings) Ingredients: 1 cup fat-free or low-fat vanilla yogurt ¼ cup LIBBY’S® 100% Pure Pumpkin ¼ teaspoon pumpkin pie spice ½ to 2/3 cup low-fat or fat-free granola Directions: COMBINE yogurt, pumpkin and pie spice in small bowl. PLACE ½ yogurt mixture into two 1-cup parfait glasses. Top yogurt mixtures with ½ of granola. Top each with remaining yogurt mixture and granola. Nutrition Facts per Serving: 260 cal, 2 g total fat (.5 g sat fat), 0 mg chol, 170 mg sodium, 53 g carbo, 4 g fiber, 10 g pro, 100% Daily Value vitamin A, 4% Daily Value vitamin C, 10% Daily Value iron, 25% Daily Value calcium. For more easy pumpkin snack and recipe ideas, visit VeryBest Baking.com/Libbys.

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