It’s amazing the different marketing we can fall victim too when we walk down the cereal aisle. More money is spent on marketing breakfest foods than any other food item as stated by research done by USDA/Economic Research Service. We will find a huge variety of flakes, nugget, clusters, squares, and O’s fortified with various vitamins, minerals and such; all in the name of getting our day off to a healthy start. In the attempt to compete in the very profitable market of breakfast foods they add all sorts of fancy ingredients and health claims – lower cholesterol, promote weight loss, improve health. Don’t be so impressed. Most of these nutrients and benefits can be obtained from less processed and many times less expensive foods. The biggest concern with many of these is the added sugar.
Follow the Simple Rule of Five: Look at the Nutrition Facts label; ideally, it should have less than 5 grams of sugar and 5 grams or more of fiber per serving. This is not an absolute rule; some breakfast foods may fall short in the fiber category but have 0 grams of sugar, so not a bad choice. Also some cereals have dried fruit in them so will be higher in the sugar category. If sugar or corn syrup is one of the first few ingredients pass it on and look for a better choice.
Info taken from
Nurtition Diva's: Secrets for a Healthy Diet
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