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FOOD FOCUS: POULTRY

Poultry’s

Nutritional Appeal

nce the Navy completed implementing the Go for Category Gains
Green program in 2016, the traffic light color labels
Oused this past year across each of the food service
programs to promote healthy meal choices are showing Popularity with Growth
signs of having additional influences for better nutrition.
At the Flight Line Café, Naval Air Station Jacksonville, of Healthy Choices
Fla., the green, yellow and red labels are leading service
members to select healthier choices, as well as to prefer
better-for-you preparation and cooking methods.
Poultry, for example, already appears 38 times on the
Flight Line’s 21-day menu cycle, and is being served more
often because of the category’s high acceptability with
service members, according to Food Service Officer CWO4
Benny Brockington.
“Many people like poultry because they use it as a
form of protein and it has so many variations it can be
cooked,” Brockington said.
Adding to poultry’s acceptability with service members
is that it is a leaner, greener and healthier alternative to
other meats that Flight Line features on the menu at all
meal times.
“Yes, poultry is being used for other times of the day,”
he said. “We serve chicken sausage patties for breakfast
and items, such as herbed baked chicken and a chicken
bar for lunch. Poultry is served many times for breakfast
and for lunch in the 21-day cycle menu.”

PREPARATION METHODS
As healthier choices are more commonly made, service
members also are taking into consideration as part of their Following the recipe card, Culinary
Specialist Seaman Apprentice Jayla
Green carefully measures salt to season
chicken being used in chicken fajitas for
the dinner meal at the Naval Air Station
Jacksonville Flight Line Cafe. (Photo by
Aviation Mainenance Administration-
man 2nd Class Sarah Morris, USN)

Sailors from Helicopter Maritime Strike Squad-
ron 72 aboard Naval Air Station Jacksonville
enjoy chicken fajitas served at the Flight Line
Cafe. (Photo by Aviation Maintenance Admin-
istrationman 2nd Class Sarah Morris, USN)

10 GOVERNMENT FOOD SERVICE • JANUARY 2018