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If You’re Hooked on “Healthy” BREAKFAST CEREALS from the Supermarket, Then These are the BEST OPTIONS!



The manufacturers of popular breakfast cereals have big marketing budgets to convince you that their products are nutritious and good for you. The truth is that most breakfast cereals are far from being truly nutritious, especially the brands designed to appeal to kids.
 
Some cereals sold by health food stores may be good for you if they avoid the two ingredients typically found in the commercially-prepared cereals from the supermarket.
 
The first “bad” ingredient is Added Sugar:

According to Jennifer L. Harris, lead researcher at Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, children get a teaspoon of sugar with every 3 teaspoons of the typical cereal marketed to them.
 
Many adult cereals contain just as much sugar per cup, giving you up to 100 extra calories in your breakfast. The most common sweetener in cereals is high-fructose corn syrup, which, according to Princeton University professor Bart Hoebel, is more likely to cause obesity than table sugar. To reduce your sugar intake, opt for cereals with less than 10 percent of their calories coming from sugar, preferably without HFCS.

A second “bad” ingredient is Excessive Carbohydrates:

All cereal contains carbohydrates, but processing reduces the nutritional quality of a cereal’s carbohydrate content. Whole-grain cereals, including steel-cut oats, whole-wheat, quinoa or whole-oat cereals, provide fiber, along with some starch and a small amount of sugar.
 
In highly processed cereals, the hull and germ are removed from grains, which are then combined with additives and preservatives. These generally contain starch and sugar, but not much fiber.
 
The Harvard School of Public Health recommends only buying cereals that list a whole-grain ingredient first on their labels.

Source: Maia Appleby

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