What’s the Healthiest Breakfast Cereal? \ stacker news ~HealthAndFitness

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405 sats \ 10 comments \ @NovaRift 13h HealthAndFitness

Don’t be deceived by the images on your cereal box of alpine vistas, ripe fruits, and shiny nuts—what’s inside may turn out to be far from wholesome.

The packaging on breakfast cereal brands can be deceiving; words such as “granola” and “natural” are not guarantees that the contents will be health-enhancing. Instead, look at the ingredients and nutrition information, usually given in a table. Most modern-day breakfast cereals contain high amounts of sugar.

Avoid highly processed products such as flakes and hoops. The body absorbs these too quickly because the starches are partly broken down during processing.

Aim instead for minimally processed grains, such as porridge, oatmeal, or low-sugar mueslis—these provide a longer-lasting supply of fuel throughout the morning.

Most ready-to-eat breakfast cereals contain a range of added vitamins, minerals, and fiber, which offer a nutritional safety net for picky eaters. This “fortification” is not necessarily an indicator of better or healthier cereals, though—many of these nutrients were in the cereals in the first place but were stripped away during the products’ heavy processing. Some synthetic nutrients, such as iron, may not even be absorbed by the body as well as they would have been from the whole food.

Try making your own cereals using fruits, seeds, and nuts

Breakfast cereals were once tasteless affairs, quite unlike the heavily sweet ones we are used to today. When the entrepreneurial brother of corn flakes’ inventor JH Kellogg decided to add sugar to their product, premade cereals became the go-to morning meal for the masses. Since the early 1920s, breakfast cereal makers have gradually increased levels of salt, sugar, and flavorings to tantalize consumers’ taste buds.

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64 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark 12h

For protien I used to eat Kashi at 12g of protein per serving. It was pretty good, but expensive. When the dickwads went from 6 servings per box down to 4 for the same price, I quit buying it.

51 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 12h

That's what my wife ate when she was pregnant.

19 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 10h

Cocoa dino bites. By far the best tasting cereal. Or frosted flakes! Do people drink the milk afterwards? I heard cases for both sides. I always thought the milk tasted great after the ceral was finished.

74 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 12h

I'd go even further and say you should look for a grain-free cereal that's just fruits, seeds, and nuts.

40 sats \ 2 replies \ @Aardvark 12h

nuts

That's what my wife eats.... 😏

51 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 11h

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 11h

At least it’s not almonds from California

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 10h

The healthiest breakfast cereal is not cereal. It's meat and eggs.

It can be exactly as convenient - I pre-cook mini egg-frittatas and beef patties, and microwave them for breakfast.

Before I became carnivore, I had been breakfasting on what a lot of people consider the healthiest breakfast - steel cut oats, with lots of fruits, nuts, and seeds (chia, flax, etc). I'd been eating that for decades.

What happened then, is that I learned about just how bad the evidence is for the health benefits of whole grains, fiber, fruits, nuts, seeds etc. I read this book - The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholtz.

After that I slowly, over the course of a month or so, went carnivore. The book doesn't advocate carnivore, necessarily, but it opened my mind to it.

I still remember the day I tossed pre-made steel cooked oats into the garbage. I'd kept them around for a couple weeks, thinking that I'd like to alternate eggs and oats. Then I decided on the carnivore option. The reason I went full carnivore is because I felt so much better and more energetic, eating much more meat, and fewer plant products.

But my point is...I'd been eating what most people would consider a really healthy diet. That breakfast steel cut oats was characteristic of what I ate in general - very much following the food guidelines.

Long term consumption of massive amounts of carbs is just a bad idea. Homo sapiens have been primarily meat eaters for almost our entire evolutionary existence. Eating grains is just the blink of an eye, evolutionarily.

Here's a graphic from Dr. Kevin Stock - I think he goes by Carnivore Dentist.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @398ja 1h

I don't do breakfast, or rather, lunch is my breakfast

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @mod 9h freebie

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