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Good breakfast cereals?

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  • 23-08-2011 10:10am
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    Gal44
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    whats a good low fat cereal?


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    the beer revolu
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    Porridge.


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    huskerdu
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    Most commercial cereals are not particularly high in fat, but massively high in sugar.

    If you mean healthy, I think porridge or a good quality muesli are the only breakfast foods eaten in a bowl with milk that can be described as healthy.


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    FTGFOP
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    Porridge gives me awful heartburn.

    Shredded wheat is a fairly healthy cereal, there's no added sugar at least.

    I'm more likely to eat cereal for supper rather than breakfast. :pac: I like to spread a little raspberry jam on the biscuits before I pour on the milk (ice cold, whole). Yummy. The sweetness of raspberry jam seems to go a lot further than plain old sugar.


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    Mellor
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    FTGFOP wrote: »
    Porridge gives me awful heartburn.

    Shredded wheat is a fairly healthy cereal, there's no added sugar at least.

    I'm more likely to eat cereal for supper rather than breakfast. :pac: I like to spread a little raspberry jam on the biscuits before I pour on the milk (ice cold, whole). Yummy. The sweetness of raspberry jam seems to go a lot further than plain old sugar.
    "Shredded wheat is god, there's no added sugar.

    I like to add sugar to mine"


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    The Hill Billy
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    Mellor - If you have a point to make then make it. Taking another poster's words & rephrasing them as you have is insulting & unnecessary.

    tHB


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    rubadub
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    Gal44 wrote: »
    whats a good low fat cereal?
    Any reason it has to be low fat?, or do you want low calorie? I was eating very oily oat pancakes for breakfast for a while, cooked in coconut oil, very filling.
    FTGFOP wrote: »
    The sweetness of raspberry jam seems to go a lot further than plain old sugar.
    This is a good point, some sugars taste sweeter than table sugar (sucrose) so you can add less to get the same sweetness level. Like honey is sweeter, or glucose is less sweet so it is used in energy drinks which would otherwise be sickly sweet (and glucose is absorbed faster).


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    Mellor
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    The Hill Billy wrote: »
    Mellor - If you have a point to make then make it. Taking another poster's words & rephrasing them as you have is insulting & unnecessary.

    tHB
    I wasn't insulting him.

    He cited that no added sugar was a benefit of shredded wheat. I was pointing out that the benefit (if any) is wiped out when you add jam.

    I'm not saying there is anythign wrong with adding jam, and it probably goes further than sugar liek he suggested. This is more likely to the fruit flavour on top on plain sweetness. And what Rubadub said is also true, some sugars are sweeter table sugar. How much sweeter jam is would depend on the fruit to added sugar ratio. More fruit means more fructose and less sucralose.

    But "no added sugar" is just a marketing ploy, jsut like "fat free" in isolation it means nothing.


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