Breakfast Cereal Challenge

Aleluya17
Aleluya17 Posts: 205 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
So here's the deal: I love cereal, the only problem is I view most cereal as sugar and corn syrup laden garbage. The challenge comes in seeing if we can find a better breakfast cereal. I know there has to be one out there. The nutritional facts i'm looking at to consider if a cereal is healthy are the following: Calories per one cup serving, calories from fat, total fat, saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, sodium, total carbohydrates, dietary fiber, and protein


After looking through my pantry I have picked my contender. Cornflakes.

In one cup of store brand cornflakes my nutritional facts were:
Calories 100
Calories from fat 0
Total fat 0g
Saturated fat 0g
Trans fat 0g
Cholesterol 0mg
Sodium 160mg
Total Carbohydrates 24g
Dietary Fiber >1g
Sugar 2g
Protein 2g

Where I would like to see improvement: More dietary fiber, less sugar, more whole grains. I figure I am getting my expectations way to high thinking I am going to find a breakfast cereal with less then two grams of sugar per serving. I am not counting carbs nor am I watching my sodium levels. I would be pleased to find a cereal where the second ingredient wasn't sugar or malt syrup (which is a fancy word for barely sugar and carbs).

Ingredients: Milled corn, sugar, salt , malt syrup.

Tl;dr what is the healthiest cereal you can find?

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  • luvinlaurakate
    luvinlaurakate Posts: 145 Member
    Less than 2 grams of sugar WILL be really hard to find in a breakfast cereal. I currently have 2 different types of Kashi cereal, GOLean Crisp Toasted Berry Crumble and Cinnamon Harvest.

    My favorite is Cinnamon Harvest, so I will post the nutrition for it.
    Calories 180
    Calories from Fat 10
    Total Fat 1g
    Sat Fat 0g
    Trans fat 0g
    Polyunsaturated fat 0.5g
    Monounsaturated fat 0g
    Cholesterol 0mg
    Potassium 170mg
    Total Carbohydrates 43g
    Dietary Fiber 5g
    Sugars 9g
    Protein 6g

    Ingredients:Organic Whole Grain Wheat, Organic evaporated cane juice, organic cinnamon, natural cinnamon flavor.

    Obviously the sugar in this specific one is way higher than you want, but if you went with a basic Kashi (or another organic brand) cereal that is made to be like cornflakes I bet it will have almost everything you are looking for.
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