Saturday 3 August 2013

The Heist!!


Yesso!....the 4th one I mentioned last week I was going to talk about....

CONFIRMED!

 ....and its not more than our beloved .....................#drumroll#.........................CEREAL!!! 

By and large, it is one of the worst foods for your waistline, and your health. There are of course a few good exceptions but when it comes to the "regular" boxes that stock the shelves of the cereal aisle at your local grocery store, it's generally all very, very very very beautifully decorated and colorful bad news!!
 
In my opinion, what is most disturbing about so many brands of cereal even the so called healthy options is that they confuse the heck out of consumers by making them "sound" so healthy and nutritious, when in reality they are anything but that........if that isn't 419...what else is? All you hear and see is "HIGH FIBRE", "WHOLE GRAIN", "HEART HEALTHY"........and they don't say jack nather about what the heck is making it sweet.........SUGAR!! Wait a minute I retract the last bit of that statement.....They actually talk about the sugar(a bit- worreva) but under the GDA at the far top right corner and they know it doesn't make THAT MUCH SENSE to good folks. In simple English....saying though cereals are sugar rockets but are whole grain so its healthy and good for you then we can as well make ice-cream healthier by chopping in ice cold cucumbers...I WISH TOO!!

This wonderful "High Fiber" cereal is a whooping 7 grams of sugar per serving!.

10 whooping grams of sugar per serving!!!!! And the average adult has 2 - 3 servings per sitting.....are we really on that health path? kai? And to think this was my brekkie at a point every single morning!!! The weight didn't budge at all till I made a change!

 
 
But why all this hulla ballu? It’s simple... sugar causes our bodies to store fat, and there’s a ton of it hiding in most breakfast cereals these days. With these  so called healthy but "bad choices" .....we can as well have Cocopops and Frosties! Be sure to check the labels and choose brands of cereals that are lower than 4 grams  of sugar per serving as various brands have various types. Like my cheerios brand has the one of 1g of sugar per serving and 6g of sugar per serving. Shine your eyes! (And hide the table sugar from the family.) Just keep calm and look at the table below quickly;
s/n
            Cereal
Calories per serving
Sugar per serving
1
Fruit n fibre
152
10g
2
All Bran
134
7g
3
Coco pops
113
11g
4
Rice krispies
115
3g
5
Frosties
113
11g
6
Crunchy nut
260
18g
7
Weetabix regular
134
1.7g
8
Weetabix minis
156
9.3g
9
Cornflakes
113
2.5g
10
Cheerios (the brownish yellow carton)
100
1g
11
K special
117
4g
12
Golden Morn
191
 *
 
 
 
 
 
*I searched high and low.....no show! Nestle please Note!!

 How much sugar per servings do the cereals in your kitchen contain? And in case you aren't aware, beyond expanding your waistline, sugar can also have pretty devastating (and somewhat DISGUSTING) health consequences. Simply put, you MUST eliminate the disastrous boxed foods from your home and if at all eat the 'sane' ones in moderation. Ultimately, start consuming whole, natural, REAL foods if your goal is to get a flat belly fast and keep your family healthy!

I advice and recommend Cheerios which are made from whole grain oats,  has no artificial colors or flavors. Those wholesome little O's have only one gram of sugar. They're low in fat, have no saturated fat and are naturally cholesterol free. Cheerios is also an excellent source of folic acid and a good source of fiber and as a hot cereal........regular cooked oatmeal!

 
 
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10 comments:

  1. Wow! As usual this is very educative!
    When I 1st started reading I was like "Ebun don come oh! What wil kids eat as breakfast now nitori Olorun!" Luckily, our brands are below d 4g mark (except Golden Morn which is undisclosed). My kids eat cornflakes, rice kripses and d regular weetabix. So Aunty Ebun, make we carry go abi?

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  2. Aunty Ebun o! I'm a major fan of Crunchy Nut fa {covering my face}... anyway, better late than never, shall institute change management sharpishly :-); thanks for the eye-opener. The kids' breakfast options are golden morn, ogi, and oatmeal, so no issues there.

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    1. Always better late than never hun! Your kids are on the right course.....keep it up.

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  3. Ebun, fantastic post. um... dat golden morn thing.interesting- i am just tryig to imagine- putting 10g of sugar in my mouth. wao. tx

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  4. um... Ebun, i got down from my bed to check all the boxes at home. interesting findings: amongst which: milo cereal- 34.3g/100g serving... lobatan. 2nd finding- nestle didnt label golden morn or cerelac; but they labelled milo cereal (i suspect d sugar in them wud beat our imaginations, right??) 3rd; cerelac SA or nig is not labelled- but Spain is. Spain says Wheat cerelac is 34.1g/100g(this is a call to NAFDAC- would be great if we can contact Nestle n nafdac ps). tx so much

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  5. Funlola Ani-Adedeji9 August 2013 at 15:03

    Great info Ebun, never thought of this before....I'm so reviewing the cereal at home in the morning! Keep it up.

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