Choosing a healthy breakfast cereal is not as easy as it seems. The cereal isle has so many options. You'll find cereals made with refined grains with nearly no fiber, and cereals made with whole grains and bran. There are cereals with so much sugar they seem more like boxes of little cookies!
The cereal you choose can say a lot about your kids diet. It can add good nutrients -- or it can add a whole lot of sugar and artificial colorants.
The trick is finding a breakfast cereal that is full of healthful attributes, low in sugar, and has no saturated fat and trans fat -- but still tastes good!
If your kids are already used to breakfast cereals that come in lots of colors and artificial flavors, it may be difficult to change them to a more healthy cereal option. You may try to add dried fruits such as cranberries or raisins to the healthy cereal, or add some pieces of the colorful breakfast to the healthy one.
To choose a healthy cereal, you need to read both the nutrition label and the ingredients list. You want to buy a cereal with more than 4g of fiber and less than 10g of sugar. The first ingredient listed in the box should be a whole grain such as “whole wheat flour” “oatmeal” or “whole grain corn”.
10 Examples of healthy cereals:
1. Post Grape-Nuts Trail Mix Crunch
2. Fiber One Honey Clusters
3. Quaker Oatmeal Squares
4. Shredded wheat
5. Raisin Bran (it contains more than 10g sugar because of the natural sugar of the raisins)
6. Kashi Heart to Heart Honey Toasted Oat Cereal
7. Barbara’s Original Puffins:
8. Barbara’s Cinnamon Puffins
9. Barbara’s High Fiber Cranberry
10. Newman’s Own Sweet Enough Cinnamon Fiber Flakes Cereal
The cereal you choose can say a lot about your kids diet. It can add good nutrients -- or it can add a whole lot of sugar and artificial colorants.
The trick is finding a breakfast cereal that is full of healthful attributes, low in sugar, and has no saturated fat and trans fat -- but still tastes good!
If your kids are already used to breakfast cereals that come in lots of colors and artificial flavors, it may be difficult to change them to a more healthy cereal option. You may try to add dried fruits such as cranberries or raisins to the healthy cereal, or add some pieces of the colorful breakfast to the healthy one.
To choose a healthy cereal, you need to read both the nutrition label and the ingredients list. You want to buy a cereal with more than 4g of fiber and less than 10g of sugar. The first ingredient listed in the box should be a whole grain such as “whole wheat flour” “oatmeal” or “whole grain corn”.
10 Examples of healthy cereals:
1. Post Grape-Nuts Trail Mix Crunch
2. Fiber One Honey Clusters
3. Quaker Oatmeal Squares
4. Shredded wheat
5. Raisin Bran (it contains more than 10g sugar because of the natural sugar of the raisins)
6. Kashi Heart to Heart Honey Toasted Oat Cereal
7. Barbara’s Original Puffins:
8. Barbara’s Cinnamon Puffins
9. Barbara’s High Fiber Cranberry
10. Newman’s Own Sweet Enough Cinnamon Fiber Flakes Cereal
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