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title: 'Facts about Group 6: Eat a lunch that packs a punch'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eat-a-lunch-that-packs-a-punch-group-6-1943/
description: Folded nutrition leaflet, shown with the inside panel upside down. One panel carries a colour wheel of the Basic 7 food groups and a text block on bread.
section: Collection
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[![Facts about Group 6: Eat a lunch that packs a punch, 1943 US poster: Folded nutrition leaflet, shown with the inside panel](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/eat-a-lunch-that-packs-a-punch-group-6-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/eat-a-lunch-that-packs-a-punch-group-6-1943.jpg)

# Facts about Group 6: Eat a lunch that packs a punch

Folded nutrition leaflet, shown with the inside panel upside down. One panel carries a colour wheel of the Basic 7 food groups and a text block on bread, flour and cereals; the other has a cartoon of two bowlers scattering pins under 'Ten strike for energy!'. It lists the benefits of the food group and presents no counter-claims, and the bowling cartoon attaches the food to a familiar sport.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
[inverted panel, read rotated 180 degrees:]
U.S. Department of Agriculture—War Food Administration
[imprint:] ☆ GPO
AT LUNCH AND AT HOME....
EAT THE BASIC 7 EVERY DAY
AND DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!
FACTS ABOUT GROUP 6
BREAD, FLOUR, AND CEREALS—NATURAL WHOLE-GRAIN, ENRICHED, OR RESTORED
Here's wholesome, whole-grain nourishment for you, complete with the vitamins and minerals contained in the original grain, including thiamin (Vitamin B1), niacin, and iron.
You get valuable food energy, too—in all these breads and cereals. Eat them every day—to help give you the "pep" you need.
Rich in protein—which supplements the meat, eggs, milk, poultry, and other protein-rich foods in your diet.
[wheel, partly cut off:] GROUP FIVE
MEAT, POULTRY, FISH, OR EGGS...
or dried beans, peas, nuts, or peanut butter
MILK AND MILK PRODUCT[S]
fluid, evaporated, dried milk, or cheese
GROUP SIX
BREAD, FLOUR, AND CEREALS...
Natural whole grain—or enriched or restored
[fortified margarine (with added Vitamin A)]
U.S. NEEDS US STRONG
EAT THE BASIC 7 EVERY DAY
[lower panel, upright:]
TEN STRIKE FOR ENERGY!
EAT A LUNCH THAT PACKS A PUNCH
```

[← Eat a lunch that packs a punch! Facts about Group 5 (meat, poultry, fish, eggs, beans)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eat-a-lunch-that-packs-a-punch-group-5-1943/) [Facts about Group 7: Eat a lunch that packs a punch →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eat-a-lunch-that-packs-a-punch-group-7-1943/)

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