![]() ![]() It is a low-fat, low-calorie choice for a cookie if you eat only two cookies. One serving of two fig cookies provides 110 calories, 2 grams of fat (polyunsaturated) 22 grams of carbohydrates which includes 1 gram of fiber and 12 grams of sugar (almost half of the recommended daily sugar intake), and 4 percent of the recommended daily iron intake. What is really in these intriguing cookies? The ingredient list for the original fig bars include enriched wheat flour (aka white flour) or whole-grain flour (for the whole grain variety) figs several types of sugar including corn syrup, high-fructose corn syrup, and sugar fat in the form of soybean oil and partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil and preservatives and flavorings. These changes to the popular cookie hope to appeal to new consumers, such as millenials and younger people. There is now Fig Newton Minis for a smaller snack choice. The fig bar is Nabisco’s third best-selling product with sales more than 700 billion bars a year. In addition, they come in a 100-percent whole-grain variety and a fat-free variety as well as the traditional. The reason is that Nabisco expanded the filling choices from fig to other fruit varieties such as raspberry apple and cinnamon triple berry peach and apricot, and strawberry. In 2012, Nabisco renamed the cookie again to its original name, Newtons. Other cookie competitors and supermarket generic brands have adopted the unique shaped fig bar. Roser sold it to the Kennedy Biscuit Co., which later merged with another company to form Nabisco and renamed the cookies Fig Newtons. Roser named his product “Newtons,” after the local town of Newton, Mass. The first mass production of fig rolls was in 1891 by Philadelphia baker Charles Roser, who patented a machine that inserted fig paste into a cake-like dough. Physicians recommended a daily intake of biscuits and fruit for digestion problems, so fig rolls were the ideal solution. History reveals that the early Egyptians invented the fig roll, which was a simple hand-rolled confection of preserved figs wrapped in a flour-based dough. Other slogans along the way include “A cookie is just a cookie, but a Newton is fruit and cake” in the 1980s and in the 1950s Saturday morning television commercials featured a cowboy singing, “Yer darn tootin’, I like Fig Newtons.” Since their beginning in 1891, this popular cookie has undergone changes in names and marketing campaigns through the years, but the original product has remained the same.įig Newton’s slogan “Made with real fruit!” ranks them in the top 10 world’s most popular cookie brands and slogans. Don’t miss a single one! Find all of the National Food Holidays to spice up your food truck menu specials throughout the year.Celebrate the popular fig-filled cookie with National Fig Newton Day on Jan. There is a National Food Holiday for almost every day of the year. If we can verify that the facts is just that, a fact, we will give the reader credit in the article. Let us know if we missed any fig newton fun facts in the comment section. ![]() Use #NationalFigNewtonDay to post on social media. ![]()
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