1891 Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for women, infants and children (WIC Program); 2010-2011 food list?
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC Program); 2010-2011 Food List [40 Pa.B. 5645]
[Saturday, October 2, 2010]I. 2010-2011 WIC Food List
Under 28 Pa. Code § 1103.5(a) (relating to minimum inventory), the WIC Program publishes notice of the 2010-2011 WIC Food List which contains the required types of foods, and if applicable, names of the allowable brands of foods. Effective October 1, 2010, the 2010-2011 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 allowed. Lactose free if specified on the WIC check. Evaporated (12 ounce cans) if specified on the WIC check. Dry (9.6 or 25.6 ounce packages) if specified on the WIC check.
Not Allowed: Flavored milk, buttermilk, goat's milk, milk with added calcium, protein or plant sterols, organic milk, Ultra High Temperature (UHT) processed milk, milk in glass bottles.
Soy Beverage 32 or 64 ounce
containers:Pacific Natural Foods—
Ultra Soy (Plain or Vanilla flavored)
8th Continent Soymilk Original FlavorNot Allowed: Any other brand or type of soy beverage.
Tofu 15 to 16 ounce
containers:Soy Boy—Organic Firm and Extra Firm House Premium Tofu—Regular, Firm, Extra Firm Not Allowed: Any other brand or type of tofu.
Chicken Eggs Regular large, medium or small raw shell brown or white chicken eggs in one dozen package.
Not Allowed: Specialty eggs such as, vegetarian fed, organic eggs, low cholesterol, fat modified, high in omega 3's, and the like.
Legumes (Beans) Black beans, blackeye peas, garbanzo beans, great northern beans, kidney beans, lima beans, navy beans, pinto beans, soybeans, split peas and lentils.
1 pound dry or 15.5 to 16 ounce canned any brand (canned kidney beans may contain sugar).
Not Allowed: Green beans, green peas, snap beans, yellow beans, wax beans, pork-n-beans, beans with added seasonings, sugars, oils, sauces, meats, organic beans.
Fruits and Vegetables Fruits Allowed:
Fresh, whole or cut without added sugars. Frozen, without added sugars. Canned, jarred or multi pack 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).
Sweet potatoes and yams.
Organic fruits and vegetables can be purchased.
Not allowed:
• Party trays, fruit baskets, salad bar items
• 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, spices, fats or oils
• Any type of white potatoes (including Red Bliss, Purple and Yukon Gold)
• Sauerkraut, pickled vegetables, olives
• Jarred salsa, pasta sauce
• Fresh herbs and spices, edible blossoms
• Dried fruit, trail mix
• Fruit leathers, fruit snacks, fruit roll-ups
• Fruit and nut mixtures
• Fruit cocktails, cranberry sauce, pie filling
• Baked goods
Juice Single Strength (48 ounce container, 100% pure juice):
Apple Apple & Eve, Lucky Leaf, Musselman's, Nestle Juicy Juice, Red & White, Seneca, Shurfine, Wegmans Cranberry Apple & Eve, Northland 100% Grape
(purple or white)America's Choice, Nestle Juicy Juice, Red & White, Shurfine, White Rose Juice Blends Apple & Eve: Cranberry Apple and Cranberry Raspberry Northland: Cranberry Grape and Cranberry Raspberry Nestle Juicy Juice: Orange Tangerine Single Strength (64 ounce container, 100% pure juice):
Apple Acme, America's Choice, Apple & Eve, Best Yet, Flavorite, Food Club, Foodland, Giant, Giant Eagle, Great Value, HyTop, Lucky Leaf, Musselman's, Old Orchard, Our Family, Parade, Red & White, Richfood, Safeway, Seneca, Shop N Save, Shop Rite, Shurfine, Tipton Grove, Wegmans, Weis Quality, White Rose Cranberry Acme, Flavorite, Giant, Giant Eagle, Great Value, Our Family, Richfood, Safeway, Shop N Save, Shurfine, Wegmans, Weis Quality Grape (purple,
red or white)Acme, America's Choice, Best Yet, Flavorite, Food Club, Giant, Giant Eagle, Great Value, HyTop, Krasdale, Our Family, Parade, Red & White, Richfood, Safeway, Shop N Save, Shurfine, Valu Time, Wegmans, Weis Quality, Welch's, White Rose Orange Any Brand, calcium and vitamin D added allowed Pineapple Acme, Flavorite, Giant, Giant Eagle, Great Value, Libby's, Our Family, Richfood, Safeway, Shop N Save, Shurfine, Wegmans, Weis Quality 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'' Nestle Juicy Juice— all flavors Old Orchard—100% juice flavors, no premium flavors Frozen Concentrated (11.5 to 12 ounce container, 100% pure juice):
Apple America's Choice, Best Yet, Flavorite, Food Club, Great Value, HyTop, Old Orchard, Our Family, Parade, Richfood, Safeway, Seneca, Shop N Save, Shop Rite, Shurfine, Sunrise Valley, Value Time, Wegmans, Weis Quality Apple Juice
BlendsOld Orchard (all flavors with green pull tab top) Orange Any brand (including calcium and vitamin D added) Pineapple Dole Pineapple Blends Any Dole 100% juice Grape Welch's (all flavors with yellow pull tab top) White Grape
Juice BlendsWelch's (all flavors with yellow pull tab top) Shelf Stable Concentrated (11.5 to 12 ounce container, 100% pure juice):
Juicy Juice any flavor, Welch's any flavor with yellow trim Not Allowed: Ciders, cocktails, artificial sweeteners, food colorings, added sugar, alcohol, carbonation, fiber, omega 3's, 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, multi bran), Kix (regular or honey only), Total (whole grain), Wheaties (regular flavor only) Kellogg Co.: All Bran Complete Wheat Flakes, Corn Flakes, Crispix, Frosted Mini Wheats (Bite Size, Big Bite or Unfrosted), Rice Krispies, Special K (regular or protein plus) Malto Meal, Honey & Oat Blenders (regular or almond), bag or box: Crispy rice Maypo: Instant Maple Oatmeal Nabisco: Cream of Wheat: Instant original, 1 minute, 2 1/2 minutes, 10 minutes, Whole Grain Post: Banana Nut Crunch, Grape-Nuts & Grape-Nut Flakes, Bran Flakes, Honey Bunches of Oats (Honey Roasted, with Almonds, Cinnamon Clusters, Vanilla Clusters), Shredded Wheat Vanilla Almond Quaker Co.: Original Instant Grits, Crunchy Corn Bran, Oat Bran Essentials, King Vitaman, Life (regular flavor), Oatmeal Squares (original & cinnamon) Store Brand Cereal: Corn Flakes, Toasted Oats, Corn Squares-Biscuits, Rice Squares-Biscuits: (Acme, America's Choice, Flavorite, Food Club, Giant, Great Value, Our Family, Price Rite, Ralston Foods, Richfood, Safeway, Shop-N-Save, Shop Rite, Shurfine, Wegmans, Weis Quality) Not Allowed: Individual serving boxes, organic cereal, any other brand or type of cereal. Peanut Butter 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: Gerber GOOD START Gentle PLUS
Soy Based: Gerber GOOD START Soy PLUS
Other brands and types of formula must be specified on the WIC check.
Infant Foods Infant Cereal: Gerber rice, oatmeal, barley, whole wheat or mixed grain in 8 or 16-ounce box.
Not Allowed: Organic varieties, variety pack, cereal with fruit, formula, yogurt, DHA, ARA or any other added ingredients.
Infant Fruits and Vegetables: 4 ounce containers of 100% fruits or vegetables.
Not Allowed: Desserts, organic varieties, mixed with sugar, cereal, rice, noodles, meats, yogurt, DHA, ARA or any other ingredients.
Infant Meats: 2.5 ounce containers of single ingredient meats (with or without gravy or broth), brand listed on the WIC check.
Not Allowed: Organic varieties, mixed with sugar, cereal, rice, noodles, vegetables, fruit, DHA, ARA or any other ingredients.
Canned Fish Chunk Light Tuna, Pink Salmon or Sardines in 3.75, 5 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 or Whole Grain Bread & Rolls
Arnold Select—Wheat Sandwich Rolls, Stoneground 100% Whole Wheat Bread
Bimbo—100% Whole Wheat Bread
Giant—100% Whole Wheat Bread
Great Value—100% Whole Wheat Bread
Nickles—Country Style 100% Whole Wheat Bread
Pathmark—100% Whole Wheat Bread
Pepperidge Farms—Stoneground 100% Whole Wheat Bread, Very Thin Soft 100% Whole Wheat Bread
Roman Meal—Sungrain 100% Whole Wheat Bread
Sara Lee—Classic 100% Whole Wheat Bread
Schmidt Old Tyme—100% Whole Wheat Bread
Shop Rite—100% Whole Wheat Bread
Stern's—100% Whole Wheat Bread, Whole Wheat Rolls
Stroehmann—Small 100% Whole Wheat Bread
Weight Watchers—Whole Wheat Bread
Windmill Farms—100% Stoneground Whole Wheat Bread-Hamotzie, 100% Stoneground Whole Wheat Bread—Mezonot, 6 pack Whole Wheat Rolls
Wonder—Soft 100% Whole Wheat Bread
Soft Corn or Whole Wheat Tortillas
Carlita—Corn Tortilla
Celia's—White Corn and Whole Wheat
Chi Chi's—White Corn Tortillas or Whole Wheat Tortilla Fajita Style
Don Pancho—White Corn Tortillas or Whole Wheat Tortillas
Food Club—Whole Wheat Tortillas
La Banderita—Corn Tortillas and Fajita Whole Wheat
La Burrita—Yellow Corn Tortillas
MexAmerican—Whole Wheat with Honey
MiCasa—100% Whole Wheat Tortillas
Mission—Yellow Corn Extra Thin Tortillas and Whole Wheat Tortillas
Nature's Promise—100% Whole Grain Corn Tortillas and 100% Whole Wheat Tortillas
Shurfine—Hand Made Style Whole Wheat
Weis Quality—Whole Wheat Tortillas
Brown Rice: Uncle Ben's—Natural Whole Grain Brown Rice Lundberg—Long or Short Grain Brown Rice (no other varieties)
Store Brands: Acme, America's Choice, Flavorite, Food Club, Giant, Great Value, Gulf Pacific, Our Family, Richfood, Safeway, Shop N Save, Shurfine, Wegmans, Weis Quality, White Rose
16 ounce packages: Oats—Mom's Best Natural Quick Oats, Mother's Rolled Oats
24 ounce packages:
Whole Wheat or Whole Grain Bread & Rolls
Arnold—100% Whole Wheat Bread
Brownberry—100% Whole Wheat Bread
Gold Medal—All Natural Whole Wheat or 100% Stone Ground Wheat Bread
Nickles—Country Style 100% Whole Wheat Bread
Pepperidge Farms—100% Whole Wheat Bread
Wegmans—Whole Wheat Bread
Weis—From the Oven 100% Whole Wheat Bread
Oats—Quaker Steel Cut Oats
II. Contract Brand of Formula
Under 28 Pa. Code § 1103.5(c), the WIC Program publishes notice of the name of the contract brand of infant formula. The WIC Program has entered into a contract with NESTLÍmula is Gerber GOOD START Gentle PLUS and Gerber GOOD START Soy PLUS. 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, 2010.
Persons with a disability who require an alternative format of this listing (for example, large print, audiotape, Braille), should contact Chris Harr, Department of Health, Division of WIC, 2150 Herr Street, 1st Floor, Harrisburg, PA 17105, (717) 783-1289.
EVERETTE JAMES,
Secretary[Pa.B. Doc. No. 10-1891. Filed for public inspection October 1, 2010, 9:00 a.m.]
