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This morning at work the milk delivery came with free gifts. several boxes of Quaker Oat Granola cereal.

This stuff is being advertised a lot in the uk as a healthy cereal, but looking at the box im not so sure.

(Per 100g, a 'serving' is 50g)

411kcal
8.6 Protein
73 Carbs (26g sugars)
8.8g fat
2.8g sat fat
5.2 fibre
trace salt/sodium

Ingredients are
Rolled Oats (55%)
Sugar
Softened Raisins
Glucose Syrup
Vegetable Oil
Cereal Pieces
Honey
Colour
Natural Flavouring

Now they dont look so healthy to me, what do you think.

My breakfast is usually oatmeal with ff milk and honey or Kashi Honey (grown up rice krispies) with Almonds and Raisins. anyone have any other cereals that are decent and preferable less expensive than Kashi?

ta!
Ben
 
ok if rolled oats only take up 55% and the next biggest ingredient is sugar, so i'd say ye they sound healty
 
a cold cereal should have:

3g of fiber for every 100calories
as much potassium in mg as calories
and less sodium in mg, than calories

411kcal, so we should have 12g of fiber...but we only have 5.2g of fiber...less than half of what it should.

adn the reason why, is: 26g sugars and 9g of fat! Lucky Charms doesn't even have 26g of sugar in it! and it sure as hell doesn't have 9g of fat.

that cereal is craptastic.
 
I find Cheerios to be a relatively healthy "mainstream" cereal. It's only got 1g of sugar and 3g of fiber.

Also, Grape Nuts for bulking. 47g of carbs with five grams of sugar in 1/2 cup. It's good for cramming carbs in.
 
Skull Pilot said:
The only really healthy cereal is whole grains that you cook yourself.

Anything in a bag, box or wrapper is poison. Run away
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No, depends. Natural Ovens Bakery is in my state and they make a granola that is awesome. No soy, no preservatives (the boxes last a few months at most, rather than years), no hfcs, no flour, nadda.

I put a 1/4 cp of it in my oats every morning.

You gotta look hard at the ingredients and nutritional breakdown.
 
kevbo said:
I find Cheerios to be a relatively healthy "mainstream" cereal. It's only got 1g of sugar and 3g of fiber.

Also, Grape Nuts for bulking. 47g of carbs with five grams of sugar in 1/2 cup. It's good for cramming carbs in.
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But most of those carbs are high GI refined, processed flour carbs, rather than the low GI whole grain carbs.
 
wtf I eat cheerios every morning and have had amazing results. i'm down from 260 back in January to 212 today. So I don't know what your trying to say about cheerios. Anyway name some regular cerael that is better you can get at the supermarket or a better alternative?
 
Cheerios:
Ingredients: Whole Grain Oats, Modified Corn Starch, Corn Starch, Sugar, Salt, Tocopherols, Trisodium Phosphate, Calcium Carbonate, Natural Colour. Contains Wheat Ingredients.

Tell me, why do you need to put modified corn starch, sugar, trisodium phosphate in your body?

Tocopherols are basically vitamin E not so bad but we don't know if they're natural or synthetic or if they've been rendered useless through heat,oxidation or some other process.

Trisodium phosphate is most commonly used as a cleaning agent. And you want to eat it???!!!

Here are the ingreients of my breakfast cereal

100% certified organic rolled oats, rye, barley and wheat

Add to that diced organic apples and strawberries.
 
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Tomahawk said:
wtf I eat cheerios every morning and have had amazing results. i'm down from 260 back in January to 212 today. So I don't know what your trying to say about cheerios. Anyway name some regular cerael that is better you can get at the supermarket or a better alternative?
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Uncle Sam's
many Shredded wheat and one multi bran Chex variety
just about anything made by Kashi

and of course
Old Fashioned Oatmeal.
 
some more...

There have been a bunch of great cereals i have found recently. I don't worry so much about the protein in the cereal as long as it just has good carbs/ingrediants.

Anything made by Zoes is great for you. They include flax seed in all their cereals along with high multi grain. It also taste really good and itsn't bland at all.

Flax Plus is another great good fat cereal, however quite bland so adding a lil fruit is needed.

Back to nature makes great cereals too, my favorite is the High Protein Hi-Crunch. I don't need protein from a cereal really but this puppy packs 12 grams a serving so I can't complain.

All these i find in a regular grocery store, there are more but they are health food store items only and can be a bit pricey.
 
HyVee around here has the Flax Plus with dried blueberries in it...found in their organic foods isles, often 2 for $5, which puts it on par with General Mills and Kelloggs cereals.
 
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