Only two cereals healthy enough to eat everyday
Comment from your online personal trainer : Dean Piazza
This is a good article for adults - not just children !
Eating a healthy breakfast gives you energy for the day and prevents you from snacking on sugar or fat products mid morning.
Starting the day eating healthy sets the scene for a healthy productive day and gets you in the right frame of mind to exericise, be positive and think healthy fresh food !
Personally I eat the coles range of untoasted muesli as its very healthy, low in fat and sugar and fills me up .
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Many cereals marketed to children contain excessive amounts of sugar and salt and only two varieties are suitable for everyday consumption, a new survey has found.
Consumer group Choice examined 152 breakfast cereals from major Australian supermarkets to determine which are healthy choices for adults and kids alike.
Of 42 cereals containing chocolate or obviously marketed to young people, Choice found only Sanitarium's Weet-Bix Kids and Uncle Tobys VitaBrits Weeties could be recommended as everyday cereals.
The other 40 contained either too much sugar or salt, while some including Kellogg's Nutri-Grain, Coco Pops Chex and Crispix Honey scored highly in both categories.
When it came to the nation's best-selling cereals, Sanitarium's Weet-Bix was the only brand to also make it into Choice's top 10 healthiest list, while Kellogg's Sultana Bran was classed as OK given its high quantity of fibre and mainly fruit-based sugar content.
The healthiest cereal options were moderate to high in fibre and comparatively low in saturated fat, sugar or salt, Choice spokesman Christopher Zinn said.
These included Abundant Earth's Organic Puffed Corn, Freedom Foods Free from Gluten Rice Puffs with Psyllium and Uncle Tobys Shredded Wheat.
"More than half of the 152 cereals Choice looked at contained far too much sugar," Mr Zinn said in a statement.
"There's no reason why cereals should contain added sodium but many contain far too much, including those aimed at kids."
Since its last survey two years ago, Choice found there had been some changes.
Nestle had decreased the amount of sugar and salt in its Milo cereal, but upped the levels of salt in Cheerios and Nesquick.
Kellogg's cut sugar and salt in Crunchy Nut Clusters but upped salt in Frosties.
AAP