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title: Eat a lunch that packs a punch! Facts about Group 5 (meat, poultry, fish, eggs, beans)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eat-a-lunch-that-packs-a-punch-group-5-1943/
description: 'Folder panel in the ''Eat a Lunch That Packs a Punch!'' series: a sculptor chisels a muscular statue under the words ''Builds muscle!''.'
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[![Eat a lunch that packs a punch! Facts about Group 5, 1943 US poster: Folder panel in the 'Eat a Lunch That Packs a Punch!'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/eat-a-lunch-that-packs-a-punch-group-5-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/eat-a-lunch-that-packs-a-punch-group-5-1943.jpg)

# Eat a lunch that packs a punch! Facts about Group 5 (meat, poultry, fish, eggs, beans)

Folder panel in the 'Eat a Lunch That Packs a Punch!' series: a sculptor chisels a muscular statue under the words 'Builds muscle!', over an upside-down food-group wheel and a protein text block. The strongman image attaches a bodily-strength reward to eating protein foods, a benefit claim in cartoon form.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
EAT A LUNCH THAT PACKS A PUNCH!
BUILDS MUSCLE!
FACTS ABOUT GROUP 5 (printed upside down)
MEAT, POULTRY, FISH, EGGS, DRIED BEANS OR PEAS, NUTS, PEANUT BUTTER
Here's protein to help you keep strong and fit. All the foods in this important group are rich in protein. In addition, they furnish food energy, and in most cases important amounts of one or more parts of the Vitamin B complex.
Eat some food from this group every day.
At lunch and at home . . . eat the Basic 7 every day and do yourself a favor!
U. S. Department of Agriculture—War Food Administration
[imprint:] GPO
[wheel, partly cropped:] GROUP FIVE; GROUP SIX; MEAT, POULTRY, FISH, OR EGGS... or dried beans, peas, nuts, or peanut butter; BREAD, FLOUR, AND CEREALS... Natural whole grain— or enriched or restored; MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS; (with added Vitamin A); U.S. NEEDS US STRONG EAT THE BASIC 7 EVERY DAY
```

[← Eat a lunch that packs a punch! Facts about Group 4 (milk and milk products)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eat-a-lunch-that-packs-a-punch-group-4-1943/) [Facts about Group 6: Eat a lunch that packs a punch →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eat-a-lunch-that-packs-a-punch-group-6-1943/)

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