1687 Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC Program); 2016-2017 WIC food list
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC Program); 2016-2017 WIC Food List [46 Pa.B. 6189]
[Saturday, October 1, 2016]I. 2016-2017 WIC Food List
Under 28 Pa. Code § 1103.5(a) (relating to minimum inventory), the WIC Program publishes notice of the 2016-2017 WIC Food List which contains the required types of foods and, if applicable, names of the allowable brands of foods. Effective October 1, 2016, the 2016-2017 WIC Food List authorizes the following as allowable foods for the purpose of the WIC Program.
Cheese Regular, reduced fat, low fat or fat free, low cholesterol, low sodium, lactose free, smoked or calcium fortified. Cheese must be marked with weight, type and cost. Cheese must be in the form of a block, sliced, shredded, stick or string cheese. Package size must be 8 or 16 ounces.
American (Pasteurized Process) Cheddar Cheddarella Cojack Colby (Longhorn) Monterey Jack Mozzarella Muenster Provolone Swiss Kosher cheese must be specified on the WIC check to be purchased using a WIC check.
Not Allowed: Individually wrapped slices, imported, deli service, cheese foods, imitation cheese, cheese products or spreads, cheese with added ingredients, organic cheese, cheese packed in water.
Cow's Milk Fluid (pasteurized; quart, 1/2 gallons or gallons), any fat level, allowed as specified on the WIC check. Acidophilus milk allowed. Lactose free milk allowed, if specified on the WIC check. Evaporated (12-ounce cans), if specified on the WIC check. Dry milk allowed, if specified on the WIC check.
Not Allowed: Flavored milk, buttermilk, goat's milk, milk with added calcium, protein or plant sterols, vitamin C, omega 3s, organic milk, ultra high temperature processed milk, milk in glass bottles.
Soy Beverage 32-ounce or 64-ounce containers: Pacific Natural Foods—Ultra Soy (Plain or Vanilla flavored)
8th Continent Soymilk Original or Vanilla Flavor Silk OriginalNot Allowed: Any other brand or type of soy beverage.
Yogurt (32-ounce containers only) Whole Fat Yogurts:
Dannon All Natural Plain ShopRite Plain Lowfat Yogurts:
America's Choice Plain, Strawberry, Vanilla Best Yet Plain, Vanilla Coburn Farms Vanilla Dannon Plain, Vanilla Essential Everyday Peach, Plain, Raspberry, Strawberry, Strawberry Banana, Vanilla Food Club Vanilla Giant Plain Giant Eagle Plain, Vanilla Great Value Peach, Strawberry, Strawberry Banana, Vanilla ShopRite Plain, Vanilla Shurfine Plain, Vanilla Weis Quality Peach, Plain, Strawberry Yoplait Harvest Peach, Strawberry, Strawberry Banana, Vanilla Nonfat Yogurts:
America's Choice Plain Best Yet Plain, Vanilla Coburn Farms Plain Dannon All Natural Plain Essential Everyday Plain Food Club Plain Giant Plain, Vanilla Giant Eagle Plain Great Value Plain Market Pantry Plain ShopRite Plain, Vanilla Shurfine Plain, Vanilla Weis Quality Plain, Vanilla Yoplait Plain Tofu 16-ounce containers: House Foods Premium—
Medium Firm, Firm, Extra Firm Nasoya—SilkenNot Allowed: Any other brand or type of tofu.
Chicken Eggs Any Brand Grade A or AA Regular: large, medium or small raw shell brown or white chicken eggs in 1-dozen package.
Not Allowed: Specialty eggs such as, vegetarian fed, organic eggs, low cholesterol, fat modified, high in omega 3s and the like.
Legumes (Beans) Black beans, black eye peas, garbanzo beans, great northern beans, kidney beans, lima beans, navy beans, pinto beans, soybeans, butter beans, pink beans, split peas and lentils.
1 pound dry or 15 1/2-ounce to 16-ounce canned any brand (canned kidney beans may contain sugar)
Not Allowed: Green beans, green peas, green lima beans, snap beans, yellow beans, wax beans, pork-n-beans, beans with added seasonings, sugars, oils, fats, sauces, meats, organic beans.
Fruits and Vegetables Fruits Allowed:
Fresh, whole or cut without added sugars. Frozen, without added sugars. Canned, jarred or multipack without added sugars, fats, oils or sodium (salt).
Vegetables Allowed:
Fresh, whole or cut without added sugars, fats or oils. Frozen, without added sugars, fats or oils. Canned or jarred, without added sugars, fats or oils. Whole kernel corn and green peas can contain sugar.
Organic fruits and vegetables can be purchased.
Not allowed:
• Party trays, fruit baskets, salad bar items
• Items that contain dips or sauces
• Ingredients other than fruit—sugar, honey, high fructose corn syrup, heavy or light syrup, dextrose, sucrose, maple syrup, artificial sweeteners, fats, oils or sodium (salt)
• Ingredients other than vegetables—sugar, honey, high fructose corn syrup, cheese sauce, noodles, rice, nuts, spices, fats or oils
• Sauerkraut, pickled vegetables, olives
• Jarred salsa, pasta sauce
• Fresh herbs and spices, edible blossoms
• Dried fruit, dried vegetables, trail mix
• Fruit leathers, fruit snacks, fruit roll-ups
• Fruit and nut mixtures
• Fruit cocktails, cranberry sauce, pie filling
• Baked goods containing fruit or vegetables
• Infant or toddler fruits and vegetables
• Maraschino cherries or products containing maraschino cherries
• Squeezable fruit or vegetable pouches
Juice Single Strength (48-ounce container, 100% pure juice):
Apple Apple & Eve, Essentials Everyday, Giant Eagle, Juicy Juice, Lucky Leaf, Musselman's, Red & White, Seneca, Shurfine Cranberry Apple & Eve: Naturally Cranberry, Northland Traditional Cranberry 100% Grape
(purple or white)Juicy Juice, Red & White, Shurfine Juice Blends Apple & Eve: Cranberry Apple and Cranberry Raspberry
Nestle Juicy Juice: All flavorsPineapple Essentials Everyday, Shurfine Single Strength (64-ounce container, 100% pure juice):
Apple America's Choice, Apple & Eve, Best Yet, Essential Everyday, Food Club, Giant, Giant Eagle, Great Value, Hytop, Krasdale, Lucky Leaf, Mott's, Musselman's, Market Pantry, Old Orchard, Red & White, Seneca, Shop Rite, Shurfine, Tipton Grove, Weis Quality Cranberry Best Yet, Essential Everyday, Food Club, Giant, Giant Eagle, Great Value, Shurfine Grape (purple, red or white) America's Choice, Best Yet, Essential Everyday, Food Club, Giant, Giant Eagle, Great Value, Hytop, Krasdale, Market Pantry, Red & White, Shop Rite, Shurfine, Tipton Grove, Value Time, Weis Quality, Welch's Orange Any Brand, calcium and vitamin D added allowed Pineapple Best Yet, Essential Everyday, Food Club, Giant, Giant Eagle, Great Value, Libby's, Shurfine Tomato Campbell's (regular or low sodium) Vegetable Campbell's V8 (regular or low sodium) Juice Blends Apple & Eve—all flavors (including Sesame Street) except ''Cranberry Juice & More''
Juicy Juice—all flavors
Old Orchard—100% juice flavors, no premium flavorsFrozen Concentrated (11 1/2-ounce to 12-ounce container, 100% pure juice):
Apple America's Choice, Best Yet, Essential Everyday, Food Club, Giant, Hannaford, Great Value, Market Pantry, My Essentials, Old Orchard, Seneca, Shop Rite, Shurfine, Tipton Grove, Weis Quality Apple Juice Blends Old Orchard (all flavors with green pull tab top) Orange Any brand (including calcium and vitamin D added) Grape Essential Everyday, Food Club, Giant, Hannaford, Market Pantry Welch's (all flavors with yellow pull tab top) White Grape Juice Blends Welch's (all flavors with yellow pull tab top) Shelf Stable Concentrated (11 1/2-ounce to 12-ounce container, 100% pure juice):
Welch's any flavor with yellow trim
Not Allowed: Ciders, cocktails, artificial sweeteners, food colorings, added sugar, alcohol, carbonation, fiber, omega 3s, DHA, ARA, beta-carotene, vitamin A, vitamin E, organic juice.
Cereal Adult/Child Cereals:
Minimum package size 12 ounces
General Mills: Cheerios (regular, multigrain)
Chex (wheat, corn, rice)
Dora the Explorer
Kix (regular, honey or berry berry)
Total (whole grain)
Fiber One Honey Clusters
Wheaties (regular flavor only)Kellogg Co.: All Bran Complete Wheat Flakes
Corn Flakes
Crispix
Frosted Mini Wheats Original (Little Bite, Bite Size)
Rice Krispies (regular)
Special K (regular)
Malto Meal, bag or box: Crispy rice, Honey & Oat Blenders (regular or almond) Maypo: Instant Maple Oatmeal Nabisco: Cream of Wheat: Instant original, 1 minute, 2 1/2 minutes, 10 minutes, Whole Grain or Healthy Grain Post: Alpha-Bits
Grape-Nuts & Grape-Nut Flakes
Great Grains
Bran Flakes
Honey Bunches of Oats (Honey Roasted, with Almonds, Cinnamon Clusters, Vanilla Clusters)Quaker Co.: Original Instant Grits
Crunchy Corn Bran
Life (regular flavor)
Oatmeal Squares (cinnamon or brown sugar)
Sunbelt Bakery Simple Granola Store Brand Cereal: Corn Flakes, Corn Squares-Biscuits, Toasted Oats, Tasteeos, Rice Squares-Biscuits: (America's Choice, Essentials Everyday, Food Club, Giant, Giant Eagle, Great Value, Hannaford, Ralston Foods, Shop Rite, Shurfine, Weis Quality) Not Allowed: Individual serving boxes, organic cereal, any other brand or type of cereal.
Peanut Butter 16-ounce to 18-ounce container, labeled ''Peanut Butter'' only
Not Allowed: Reduced fat peanut butter, peanut butter spread, peanut butter mixed with jelly, marshmallow, chocolate or honey, organic peanut butter, added omega 3s, DHA, ARA or artificial sweeteners.
Infant Formula Contract Brand
Milk Based: Similac Advance Soy Based: Similac Soy Isomil Other brands and types of formula must be specified on the WIC check.
Infant Foods Infant Cereal: Brand specified on the WIC check: rice, oatmeal, barley, whole wheat or multigrain in 8-ounce or 16-ounce container.
Not Allowed: Organic varieties, variety pack, cereal with fruit, formula, yogurt, DHA or ARA.
Infant Fruits and Vegetables: Brand specified on the WIC check: 4-ounce containers of 100% fruits or vegetables.
Not Allowed: Desserts, organic varieties, mixed with salt, sugar, cereal, rice, noodles, meats, yogurt, DHA, ARA, flour, starch, any other ingredients or squeezable pouches.
Infant Meats: Brand specified on the WIC check: 2 1/2-ounce containers of single ingredient meats (with or without gravy or broth).
Not Allowed: Organic varieties, mixed with salt, sugar, cereal, rice, noodles, vegetables, fruit, DHA, ARA, flour, starch or any other ingredients.
Canned Fish Chunk Light Tuna, Pink Salmon or Sardines in 3 3/4-ounce, 5-ounce or 6-ounce cans only
Not Allowed: Products packed in oil, albacore tuna, brisling sardines, red salmon, organic fish.
Whole Grains 16-ounce packages:
Whole Wheat Bread and Rolls
Store Brands 100% Whole Wheat Bread:
Acme, America's Choice, Best Yet, Essential Everyday, Giant, Giant Eagle, Krasdale, Shoprite, Weis QualityArnold 100% Stoneground Whole Wheat Bread Bimbo 100% Whole Wheat Bread Gold Medal 100% Whole Wheat Bread Gourmet 100% Whole Wheat Bread Harvest Pride 100% Whole Wheat Bread Hauswald 100% Whole Wheat Bread Monks Wheat Whole Grain Bread Nature's Harvest 100% Stone Ground Whole Wheat Bread Nature's Own 100% Whole Wheat with Honey Nature's Promise 100% Whole Wheat Nickles Country Style 100% Whole Wheat Bread Pepperidge Farms Stoneground 100% Whole Wheat Bread, Very Thin Soft 100% Whole Wheat Bread Sara Lee Classic 100% Whole Wheat Bread Schmidt Old Time—100% Whole Wheat Bread Schwebel's 100% Whole Wheat Bread Stern's Whole Wheat Bread, Whole Wheat Rolls and Whole Wheat Hot Dog Buns Stroehmann Small 100% Whole Wheat Bread Windmill Farms 100% Stoneground Whole Wheat Bread—Hamotzie, 100% Stoneground Whole Wheat Bread—Mezonot, 6-pack Whole Wheat Rolls Wonder 100% Whole Wheat Bread Tortillas
Store Brands: Giant Eagle Fajita Size Tortillas White Corn or Soft Taco size whole wheat Tortillas Nature's Promise Corn All Natural Tortillas Giant Yellow or White Corn or Whole Wheat Tortillas Celia's Yellow or White Corn Chi Chi's White Corn Tortillas, Whole Wheat Fajita Style Don Pancho Yellow or White Corn Tortillas, Whole Wheat Tortillas Guerrero Corn Tortillas La Banderita Corn Tortillas, Whole Wheat Soft Taco, Whole Wheat Fajita Tortillas La Burrita Yellow Corn Tortillas MexAmerican Whole Wheat with Honey MiCasa Whole Wheat Tortillas Mission Yellow Corn Extra Thin Tortillas and Whole Wheat Tortillas Ortega Whole Wheat Tortillas Siempre Autentico Whole Wheat Tortillas Whole Grain Brown Rice:
Blue Ribbon, Mahatma, Uncle Ben's: Natural Whole Grain Brown Rice
Store Brands: America's Choice, Best Yet, Essentials Every Day, Giant, Great Value, Shurfine, Weis Quality
Oats: 16-ounce packages: Mom's Best Natural Quick Oats
Whole Wheat Pasta 16-ounce
Essential Everyday: Whole Wheat Spaghetti
Whole Wheat Thin Spaghetti
Whole Wheat Macaroni
Whole Wheat Penne
Shurfine: 100% Whole Wheat Pasta: Spaghetti, Penne Rigate Weis Quality: Whole Wheat Penne Rigate
Whole Wheat Spaghetti
Whole Wheat Angel Hair24-ounce packages:
Whole Wheat Bread and Rolls
Archer Farms 100% Whole Wheat Bread Arnold 100% Whole Wheat Bread Brownberry 100% Whole Wheat Bread Essential Everyday 100% Whole Wheat Bread Freihofer 100% Whole Wheat Bread Gold Medal Natural or Premium 100% Whole Wheat Bread Gourmet 100% Whole Grain Bread Nature's Promise Natural 100% Whole Grain Bread Nickles Country Style 100% Whole Wheat Bread Pepperidge Farms Double Fiber, Farmhouse soft 100% Whole Wheat Bread, Honey Oat, Oatmeal Bread, Soft Honey Whole Wheat Bread, Whole Grain 100% Whole Wheat Bread ShopRite 100% Stone Ground Wheat Bread, Premium 100% Whole Wheat Bread, Natural 100% Whole Wheat Bread Stroehmann Dutch Country 100% Whole Wheat Bread, Family Grains 100% Whole Wheat Bread Oats—Quaker Steel Cut Oats
Not Allowed: Any other package size, brand or type of whole grain products, organic whole grains, items with added omega-3s, dried fruits, seeds, nuts, extra calcium or vitamin D.
II. Contract Brand of Formula
The WIC Program has entered into a contract with Abbott Laboratories to be the primary provider of infant formula for the WIC Program. The contract brand of infant formula is Similac Advance and Similac Soy Isomil. Other brands and types of formula must be specified on the WIC check to be authorized for purchase with a WIC check. The information contained herein is effective October 1, 2016.
Persons with a disability who require an alternative format of this notice (for example, large print, audiotape, Braille) should contact Perce Morgan, Department of Health, Bureau of WIC, 625 Forster Street, 7 West Health and Welfare Building, Harrisburg, PA 17120, (717) 783-1289, or for speech and/or hearing impaired persons V/TT (717) 783-6514 or the Pennsylvania AT&T Relay Service at (800) 654-5984.
KAREN M. MURPHY, PhD, RN,
Secretary[Pa.B. Doc. No. 16-1687. Filed for public inspection September 30, 2016, 9:00 a.m.]
