Compared to Oreos or Chips Ahoy, Newton cookies have higher overall sugar per cookie.Įach Fig Newton cookie has roughly 4g of added sugar and 2g of fruit sugar.Īs a point of comparison, one Oreo cookie has about 4.7g of added sugar without any fruit sugar.įor women, the American Heart Association advises limiting added sugar intake to 25g per day and for men to 36g per day.Īs a result, six Fig Newton cookies for women and nine for men would satisfy your daily allowance of added sugar.Įven though fruit sugar, especially dried fruit, has a higher glycemic index than added sugar, it can occasionally cause blood sugar to rise. Only 1/3 of the sugar in Fig Newtons comes from fruit the remaining 2/3 is added sugar. Should You Avoid Fig Newtons? Are fig newtons healthy?ĭo Fig Newtons Contain a Lot of Sugar? Fig Newtons have a high sugar content with 12g of total sugar for two cookies (6g per cookie).What Kind of Exercise Is Needed to Burn Off a Fig Newton?.National Fig Newton Day January 16, 2018įollow Chewettes on WordPress.National Irish Coffee Day January 25, 2018.So, I will continue to enjoy my Newtons and I hope you do, too.

The good news is the crunchy bits inside Newtons aren’t bug parts but the actual seeds. Don’t click on the link from the FDA if you have a weak stomach. Okay, before you start screaming “yuck”, the FDA does allow certain levels of natural or unavoidable defects in food that present no health hazards to humans. Without these wasps, we won’t have any figs. The wasps are essential to the pollination of the fruit. The males then die from exhaustion and get “digested” by the fig as it ripens. After the females and males mate, the males chew holes for the females to make their way out of the fig to a new fig to nest and lay their eggs, carrying with them pollen from the fig’s male flowers. However, I’ve read an interesting article from Smithsonianabout fresh figs and bugs. So eating Newtons is the next best thing. It’s a turn-off for people who did not grow up eating Newtons. As a Gen-Xer born at the very tail end of baby-boomers, I have grown loving figs and I find it unfortunate that it’s very hard to find fresh figs where I live. But according to the New York Times, they dropped the word “fig” because figs aren’t really that cool and just like prunes, were associated with being geriatric and having laxative effects. Many generic brands have imitated the cookies and have called them fig cookies, fig bars, or fig rolls. Nabisco dropped the word “fig” in 2012 because Nabisco produces other types of Newtons. Newtons are a trademark brand of Nabisco. When the Kennedy Biscuit Company merged with the New York Biscuit Company, they became known as Nabisco and they trademarked the name Fig Newtons, after the nearby town of Newton, Massachusetts. In 1891, James Henry Mitchell invented the machine that worked like a funnel within a funnel, which extruded the filling encased by the pastry dough into a long cookie that was then cut into smaller pieces. His recipe was later purchased by the Kennedy Biscuit Company, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The cookie bars were the creation of Charles Roser, a Philadelphia baker. I like my Newtons cold (I keep them in the fridge), preferably with a glass of ice cold milk or a steaming cup of British Blend tea with a dash of creamer. So today, I am dedicating this post to my favorite cookie bar. According to my mom, one of the first solid foods I loved was Fig Newtons.

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