WEBVTT - TNC Review: Breakfast Biscuits (Inc. Weet-Bix) 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.120 As a child, did you grow up with wheatbis as 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:07.520 your staple breakfast cereal? Indeed, breakfast biscuits have remained one 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:11.120 of the most popular breakfast cereals in Australia for many years. 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:14.080 So today on the Nutrition Couch podcast, we take a 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:17.280 closer look at two of the most popular breakfast cereal 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:20.480 biscuits in Ausy supermarkets to decide once and for all, 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:23.639 which is the healthiest option. Hi, I'm Susie Burrow and 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:26.439 I'm Lean Wood, and as two of Australia's leading dieticians 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:29.520 who specialize in evidence based nutrition, we bring you the 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:33.240 Nutrition Couch Product Review, a weekly chat on new products 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:37.559 and old favorites you can find in the supermarkets. So Leanne, 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:40.040 tell me a child. I don't even want to think 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:43.400 what child you were. I'm thinking the nineties. Maybe what 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:46.240 was the breakfast cereal that you had in your cupboard 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:47.080 when you were growing up? 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:48.839 I think we did. I'm trying to think back. I 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:50.559 think we did grow up with weep bigs. Mom had 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:52.720 these like big glass jars. There was this big shelf 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:54.720 in the kitchen. It was like above height, so as 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:56.240 a kid, I couldn't even reach up there. It was 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:58.200 like this big shelf and Mum had all these glass 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:00.560 jars of cereal, and I remember there was like some 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.200 sort of shredded whip thing in one that was like 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:07.319 Mum always had, oh, what's the really whole grainy type cereal. 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:09.480 There was a muslin one that was rolled oats in another, 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:11.360 that was wheetpicks in another. So we always had sort 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:13.720 of a range of five or six. But you would never, 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:15.600 as I listened as know, my mom was very healthy. 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:17.800 There was never any cocoa pops or fruit loops or 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.959 anything like that in our household. It was a very bland, beige, 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:23.920 high fiber type of cereals for us. And I was like, Mom, 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:25.399 I was looking sweet and she'd be like, put some 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:28.040 fruit on it. So it was always, you know, a bland, 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:30.760 a low sugar type of high fiber cereal, some milk 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:33.120 and some fruit. That was if cereal was in the household. 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.360 That was sort of a growing uption. What did you 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:36.119 grow up with, Suzzy? 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:39.000 Well, did you not even get the holiday packets where 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.240 you got to take away the little mini boxes and 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:43.600 then you could pick like as a special holiday thing, 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:45.840 you could have the cocoa pops or the nutri grain. 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:52.000 You never got that, no, so deprive. My mum was 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:55.000 not dissimilar like. She was quite strict as well, and 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.680 I want to say as I got older, we used 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.800 to have just right, which is not overly held in itself, 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:06.120 but we definitely had wheat pigs absolutely. Growing up we 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.600 had quite plain cereals, but we did on the holidays 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.840 we were allowed to get the holiday mix where we 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:13.520 would choose like the little one, So that was always 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.400 the very exciting highlight. So it's funny when you ask 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:19.480 people about their memories of growing up in the different 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.120 cereals that they had. I actually also remember when there 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:27.200 was calor Complete, so it had like these little currents 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.320 covered in yogurt in the eighties I guess it would 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.200 have been the nineties and it was not overly healthy 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:37.640 toasted musically, but these little yogurt covered currents were so delicious. 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:38.560 I remember that. 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:38.880 Yeah. 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:40.919 I feel like there was a type of Sultana brand 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:42.919 that also had that, because the mum used to buy 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:44.919 that one. I was like the Sultana brand. I think 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:46.320 you look on the box and it looks like it's 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:49.000 super high fiber because the brand type plates in there 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:51.760 looks like Uber Uber healthy and it's marketed as like, 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.239 you know, yogurt covered raisin but I think a quick 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.079 look at the nutrition label would probably tell us that 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.120 it's jack full of sugar. But back in the day, 0:02:58.160 --> 0:02:59.400 I think, you know, we did a lot of front 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:02.000 of package you know, reading instead of actually reading the 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:04.720 nutrition labels. So we definitely had that in our household, 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.160 the brand flakes with sort of the yogurt covered raisins. 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:10.880 Yeah, so times have changed. You know, you probably come 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:13.040 as a surprise to hear that, you know, austrain industry 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:14.560 has actually done a great job at taking quite a 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.440 lot of sugar out of the cereal section. So you know, 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:19.720 even though there's a perception that it's not overly healthy, 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.240 indeed now it's far far healthier than it ever once was. 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.480 And back in the golden days, sugar was not so 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.520 much of a concern, so there was plenty of it 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.840 in breakfast cereal. But going to two very popular varieties 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.560 of cereal, I think they're still the biggest sellers. Wheatbeks 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:36.720 will start with Sanitary and Wheatbix. It's an interesting one actually, 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:40.280 because you know, in the old days, where there was 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:42.560 a lot of sugary cereal. You were sort of all 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:44.880 more process cereal. There wasn't a lot of the probiotic 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.760 high fiber varieties you can find now. You know, WHEATBEX 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.080 was kind of always considered the gold standard. And I 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:53.200 remember a skit at uni or the an ad that 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:54.960 was on back in the day that said, you know, 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:57.880 seven out of ten nutritionis or whatever the number was, 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:00.280 recommend wheatbox. So it was kind of always did at 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.640 the gold standard. And when you take a closer look 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.720 and even the processing of it, it's perhaps not as 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:07.160 healthy as we may perceive it to be, so especially 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.080 considering the kinds of cereals that you can find now 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.280 which is super high fiber. But if I look at 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:13.320 the ingredients, it's pretty clean. You know, it's ninety seven 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:17.400 percent whole grain wheat. Second ingredients or sugar, salt, barley, 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:22.040 milk extract, and then it's quite significantly fortified with vitamins 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:25.520 B one, B two, B three, and FOL eight as 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.880 well as iron contains gluten wheat. It's a wheat based product. 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.360 It's got a claim of low and sugar source of iron, 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:33.560 high in fiber, and you know, when we take a 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:35.440 look at it, LeAnn, There's not a whole lot in it, 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:37.560 you know. This is two of the breakfast biscuits, thirty 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.200 three grams that comes in just over one hundred calories, 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:42.200 so four hundred and eighty eight kilo duels per serve. 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.159 It's got four grams of protein that's without any milk added. 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:50.240 It's got very little fat orero point four grams, twenty 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.040 one point seven grams of carbohydrate, one gram of sugar 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:54.840 there is some added sugar, and wheat baks which may 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.800 come as a surprise. Four point three grams of dietary fiber, 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:00.800 which is a good serve. At least three you would 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:02.800 want from a bottle of breakfast cereal. Mind you, now 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:05.000 you're getting cereals that easily come in at six eight 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:08.480 grams per serve. Sodium eighty nine milligrams, pretty insignificant in 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:11.120 the big scheme of things. And then more than a 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:13.680 third of your recommend a daily intake of fol eight 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:17.080 although it is synthetic fol eate, fifty percent vitamin B one, 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.720 twenty five percent vitamins B two and three, twenty five 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:23.039 percent dietrin. Although it is non hemine. It's not overly 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.440 well absorbed. We should say in cereal product still a 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:29.640 great choice for people on a plant based diet, say magnesium. 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.520 So I would describe wheatbeits as being a very plain, 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:36.320 simple breakfast It's not unhealthy. Is it the healthiest breakfast 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:39.120 cereal out there? No? Are there a million cereals that 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.000 are worse? Yes? Do I buy it? 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:41.200 No? 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:43.960 Do I sometimes cook with it? Yes? You know, I 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:47.839 think really it's splitting hairs. But I think the message 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.040 for most people is I think that there are better 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.719 breakfast cereals out there. The GI is not overly low 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.240 on it, which means it's digested relatively quickly. Because of 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:59.159 the process nature of the cereal itself, you're not seeing 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.680 sort of big fib as chunks through it, and you 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:03.720 can tell that lean. Of course, when you serve it, it 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:07.080 goes really really sloppy, which means it's probably digestive relatively quickly, 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.160 you know. So I kind of if I was rating 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:11.080 it out of ten, i'd give it a seven. You know, 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:13.840 it's not it's not amazing, it's not bad, it's affordable 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:17.160 for many families, there's really nothing wrong with it. But 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:19.359 for me, it doesn't tick some of the key boxes 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:23.039 that I think a breakfast cereal should should tick in 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:26.359 terms of fiber and bulk factor, and you know it 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.640 does have added sugar, and there are options which do not. 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:32.160 So yeah, I just would give it a seven, and 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:33.919 I sort of doesn't do much for me. I'm not 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:35.800 anti or I'm not really pro it either. 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:37.719 Yeah, And let's be honest, it's not the best tasting 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:39.120 thing in the world, isn't it. Like it does go 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:42.080 super so soggy and soppy, So it's not something that 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:44.560 I'm jumping out of my seat to actually consume. But 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:47.080 you know, it is a pretty quote unquote clean breakfast option. 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.200 But let's be honest, Like two week bicks with milk 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:50.640 that doesn't fill me up. I don't know if that 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:53.360 fills you or anybody else up, but I would routinely eat, 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:55.960 you know, four or five six week bicks as a tall, active, 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:58.920 very active kid. So for me like that that's serving 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.680 size for me, and most of the active ladies wouldn't 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:03.800 actually be enough. I work with very active ladies as 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:05.880 sort of my client taler. Just two week bits of 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:08.560 milk wouldn't quite cut it. So I think to balance 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:10.600 that breakfast add a little bit better. We'd want to 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:12.720 add a little bit more protein, so a good dollop 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:15.120 of some good quality Greek yogurd and you know, a 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.200 good sprinkle of some nuts and seeds. Adding a little 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:19.000 bit of healthy fat in there as well to balance 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:21.400 out some of those carbohydrates. I think would be would 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.280 be a relatively better option, Susie. I think I think 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:26.120 a lot of people will put you know, fruit with 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:28.760 their cereal, which is just sort of adding in more carbohydrates. 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:30.400 I like to always balance out a bit of cereal 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:32.520 with some healthy vats and a little bit of extra 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:34.680 protein as well. That really gives you that longer lasting 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:36.960 energy throughout the day. So I'm like you, it's not 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:40.240 terrible or definitely worse breakfast options. It's not a bad one, 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:42.080 but it's not something that I'm jumping out of my 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.960 seat to recommend left front center for my clients. I 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.440 really do think that, especially from a taste perspective, I 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:51.560 think it's quite bland. I definitely think there are more tastier, healthier, 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:53.480 more nutritious cereal options out there. 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:57.680 Absolutely, And I think you know, describing the carbohydrate, you know, 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:00.520 it's twenty one grams of carbohydrate that's out the milk 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.720 so if you then include a serve of milk, plant milk, 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:05.720 dairy milk, you're going to get at least ten more 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.240 grams carbo hydrates, so that's thirty grams. Then if you're 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:11.360 adding some fruit, you're getting a pretty high carbohydrate breakfast cereal, 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:13.600 which a lot of my clients don't process so well. 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:14.920 It tends to sort of give them a hit and 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:18.000 then they're not satisfied right through to lunchtime. So I'm 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:19.800 like you, if I had a client who loved them, 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:22.400 I would say, we'll just mash one up or one 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:24.080 and a half up with and make it like a 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:26.640 Bircher bowl with your high protein Greek yogurt and some 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:30.320 berries to make it more balanced and more filling. Or 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.320 for really active people or active kids, you know, including 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:35.480 one in a smoothie with a banana can be a 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:37.760 really filling breakfast thing because you're adding the protein backing. 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.280 And for really active people it can be a really 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.880 smart source of carbohydrates to bulk out or to have 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:46.280 a lot for a relatively cheap price point. For the 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.319 client group that I'm seeing, which is generally interested in 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:51.320 weight control in their thirties, forties and fifties. It's certainly 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:53.480 not my go to simply because I tend to opt 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:56.160 for high protein breakfast rather than carbo hydrate rich ones. 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.240 But certainly with teenagers and teenage boys, it would be 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:01.559 a food I would go too, because it's relatively inexpensive 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:02.920 and they can eat a lot of it and get 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:06.280 that good quality carbohydrate that they do need because they're 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.160 busy and they've got a lot more muscle mass and 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.760 are growing. So, like everything in what we talk about 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.440 here on the Nutrition Couch, there's different strokes for different folk, 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:16.360 and as I said, it sits in that middle ground. 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:20.560 But we wanted to compare it to vitebrates because vitebrates 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:23.840 is an interesting product because I would hug you it's 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:26.840 better because when we look at the ingredients on vitebrates, 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:30.480 it's ninety nine percent whole grain wheat and it's got 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:32.320 some salt in it, but there's no added sugar. So 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.120 I think as a cereal in general, and I personally 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.960 prefer it as a flavor that more wheaty taste to 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.520 me is nicer. I find them a bit harder. As 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:44.360 a biscuit, I find that it go with soggy, So 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.880 personally I prefer the serve nutritionally very very similar. You know, 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.400 you're looking at four hundred and ninety killer jewels again, 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:52.920 just about one hundred and twenty calories per serve. Three 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.320 grams of protein a little bit less than the wheatbits, 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.880 but nothing significant. Similar, very little fat, twenty two point 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.360 three grams cover hydro similar amount of five or four 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:04.439 point two tiny bit more sodium, but one hundred and 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:09.440 thirty milligrams really insignificant. But I actually can't see there's 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.040 not the fortification that the wheatbeakx has actually, so it 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:14.400 doesn't have those B group vitamins through there or the 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:17.680 dietary iron. Now that wouldn't concern me Land because if 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:19.680 it's a whole grain cereal, you're getting your vitamin B 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:23.240 anyway naturally without having to fortify. And I'm not a 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.000 massive fan of fortifying with synthetic folate anyway. I'd much 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:29.400 rather people get natural folate that's naturally occurring in whole 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.760 grains or from grains anyway than synthetic folate. And the 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:35.880 iron in cereal is not well absorbed. So unless I've got, 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.800 you know, someone who's vegan and really looking for options 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:43.240 to increase eroed absorption. There's better options for me iron wise, 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.199 even from other plant based foods, whether it's legumes or 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:49.400 whole grains. So yeah, that wouldn't bother me. As a cereal, 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.040 I wouldn't be buying whetbeaks because it's fortified over Vita Brits, 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.319 which has no oded sugar. I think that if I 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:56.600 was choosing, I would just go for this one. One Personally, 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.440 I prefer the taste, and two it's got no added sugar. 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:01.400 But you know, in the big scheme of gram of 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:03.640 sugar in a couple of week bits is likely to 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:04.920 be the least to your problem exactly. 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:06.640 They're really much of a muster. So I think from 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:08.520 a flavor perspective, go with the one that you like. 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:10.960 I mean, as dieticians are, were always going to say 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:12.560 the one, but no out of sugar is better. But 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:14.640 as you said, in the grand scheme of things, it's 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:18.600 zero sugar versus one gram, so it's pretty insignificant in 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:21.120 the grand scheme of things, let's be honest. So I 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:23.240 think either are a good option. I'm not going to 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:25.920 say that they're my favorite breakfast type cereal option, but 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.640 they're definitely better options than some of our other sugary 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:30.720 based cereal, So if you kids do like them, I'd 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:33.000 definitely be encouraging you to have them, and for little 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:34.800 ones who do struggle to get in fire, but this 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:36.520 is a really good option. I feel like some of 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:39.080 the high fiber type cereals we talk about SUSI are 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.840 probably too much fiber for our little least. So this 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.200 is a great sort of first food for toddler's babies, 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.160 that sort of thing, because it does go so soft, 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:48.080 and it does have a good whacker fiber in there 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:50.440 as well, and they're nicely balanced sort of you know, 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.240 amount of whole grains and carbohydrates as well. So I 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.200 feel like for our little kids in our growing teens, 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:58.160 it's a great option. Perhaps for an adults, so they 0:11:58.200 --> 0:11:59.880 just need to think about balancing a little bit more, 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:03.120 adding in some healthy fats and some protein as well. 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.320 But I think both both are pretty good options and 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:06.839 very very similar, let's be honest. 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:08.800 And you know a way that I actually use them 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:11.400 more often than actually why they're in my cupboard is 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:13.760 that I sometimes bake with them, like because I'll make 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.280 protein balls with it as a base, because it blends 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.720 quite well, that kind of crunchy base. So if you're 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.040 wanting to block up a banana bread or as I said, 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.000 add it to a smoothie or make some protein balls, 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.400 it's a really good way to do that without using 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.120 refined flour. So with cereals, you know, you can use 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.760 them quite in ingenious ways. I've had clients who use 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.160 them for kids lunchboxes, you know, and they put kind 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:34.760 of a spread on them and then they have it 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.400 as like a little crunchy snack in the day. So 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.280 you know, certainly there are some ways you can use it. 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:42.880 And so for ten grams of carbohydrate in a crunchy 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:45.920 biscuit snack for school, that's a million times better than 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:49.440 to have an actual sweet biscuit if the kids like it. So, yeah, 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:51.319 you can use them in a really smart way, and 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.080 there's nothing really bad about them. But if we were 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:56.120 splitting hairs, yeah, you do have one without a sugar 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:58.760 and one without and you know, they're just different options. 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:00.920 But I think sometimes there's a person option out there 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.080 that wheatbeaks is the healthiest cereal you can eat, and 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.240 I would say absolutely not. I think that's far healthier. 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:08.080 If I was giving that title, it would have to 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:11.080 beat a whole grain plain oats as sort of you know, 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:14.320 a whole grain with nothing at it and so nutritious 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.240 and so good for us, and such a good low 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.280 GI breakfast cereal that would absolutely win, hands down. And 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:21.440 I'm a big fan of brand based cereal because I 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:25.040 think it's so good for the gush without being processed 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:27.800 at all. So, you know, but it's not a matter 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:30.280 if there's one standout cereal. There's just different products for 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:33.160 different people, depending on your goals. And you know, for kids, 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.280 you're doing far worse than giving them a couple of 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:38.680 week biks or vitebricks and milk for breakfast. But for adults, 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.200 I think in general there are better choices. Couldn't agree 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.439 more beautiful? All right? 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