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Speaker 1: If you grew up in some parts of Europe or

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Speaker 1: travel there regularly, you may have seen that's breakfast biscuits

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Speaker 1: can be relatively common as a way to start the

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Speaker 1: day with a hot drink. Now, a few years ago

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Speaker 1: back in Australia, we started to see breakfast biscuits in

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Speaker 1: supermarkets as well, and they're marketed as a quick, easy

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Speaker 1: and healthy breakfast option. So is it actually possible that

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Speaker 1: a sweet biscuit could be part of a healthy start

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Speaker 1: to the day. Hi, I'm Susie Burrows and I'm Lean Wood,

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Speaker 1: and as two of Australia's leading dieticians who specialize in

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Speaker 1: evidence based nutrition, we bring you the Nutrition Couch Product Review,

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Speaker 1: a weekly chat on new products and old favors that

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Speaker 1: you can find in supermarkets. Now, Leanne, I've got an

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Speaker 1: interesting story about breakfast biscuits because I've mentioned before on

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Speaker 1: the potty that I lived with Italians when I was

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Speaker 1: at university Northern Italians, and it was absolutely normal for

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Speaker 1: Nonna to start the day with a cup of tea

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Speaker 1: before even her coffee, and she would buy Italian biscuit

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Speaker 1: from the Italian delis. They're down in Wollongong and there's

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Speaker 1: quite a lot of Italians down there, and so she

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Speaker 1: will routinely go to the local sort of Italian grosser

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Speaker 1: and stock up on breakfast biscuits and down several to

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Speaker 1: start the day. And I certainly joined her when I

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Speaker 1: was eighteen nineteen at university. Now I am generally not

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Speaker 1: a fan of the ones in supermarket, and I'm going

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Speaker 1: to take a close look at a couple of them

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Speaker 1: a day. But I do know that Europeans routinely have

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Speaker 1: sort of with that, and then they'll go to a

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Speaker 1: hot meal in the day. What do you think have

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Speaker 1: you seen it much in your practice or with people before,

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Speaker 1: sort of having piscotti or biscuits as a breakfast.

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Speaker 2: Not so much piscotti, but I do I do haven't

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Speaker 2: had a couple of clients who are using these more so,

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Speaker 2: and particularly if I've ever had clients with young sort

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Speaker 2: of young teenagers, they send them to school with these

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Speaker 2: things because you know, the kids are like, oh, I'm

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Speaker 2: take something with you. So I do find a lot

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Speaker 2: of parents use this for teenagers who don't want well

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Speaker 2: aren't hungry, or maybe it's not coolty breakfast, whatever the reason,

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Speaker 2: they do sort of use these, But I must be honest,

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Speaker 2: I have used these while traveling a few times, just

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Speaker 2: a something quick and easy to have in my handbag

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Speaker 2: if I'm overseas and I'm sort of traveling around, particularly

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Speaker 2: when I travel through parts of Asia, and I just

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Speaker 2: think it's very traditional in Asian cuisine to have more

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Speaker 2: like you know, the meat and the veggie in the

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Speaker 2: noodle for breakfast. And I'm very much like a I

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Speaker 2: like a light of sort of breakfast. If I'm not

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Speaker 2: would rather prefer something like a poroje or a cereal

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Speaker 2: or something. So I just can't sort of stomach meat

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Speaker 2: and veggie at that sort of time in the morning,

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Speaker 2: so I do if I've traveled through parts of Asia,

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Speaker 2: I have sort of just stashed these in my handbag

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Speaker 2: that or like a protein bar, so I have doubled

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Speaker 2: with them occasionally, But I definitely wouldn't say that they're

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Speaker 2: as healthy as what they are marketed, and even particularly

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Speaker 2: the fiber. You know, they're marketed as these like wonderful

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Speaker 2: replacements to breakfast, but I think for the right person potentially,

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Speaker 2: you know, for our young athletes and people with higher requirements,

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Speaker 2: I think they could be a good option. But I

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Speaker 2: think for the large majority of ossies who are looking

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Speaker 2: to lose weight, I mean, let's see, right, let's review them.

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Speaker 1: Well, okay, I've chased two just to quick look. The

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Speaker 1: one to market here in Australia is the bel Vita

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Speaker 1: Breakfast biscuits. They're in the yellow packet. Now, I'm pretty

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Speaker 1: sure they're actually in the biscuit section. I don't think

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Speaker 1: they're in the cereal section. From memory and I've chosen

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Speaker 1: there's a whole lot of them lean, there's like sort

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Speaker 1: of Natella ones with chocolate in them. There's chocolate varieties,

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Speaker 2: Mini packs, there's a cranberof lavor.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've just chosen this sort of traditional, larger ones.

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Speaker 1: These ones are called milk and cereals. They're an overseas product. Actually,

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Speaker 1: they're made in France, and this is the exact one

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Speaker 1: they're imported. They retail for four dollars fifty for force packets,

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Speaker 1: got that's right, they're fifty grams in it. Yes, that's

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Speaker 1: three hundred grams, so they're fifty grams and they've got

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Speaker 1: four individual biscuits, and there's six packs per four dollars

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Speaker 1: fifty Now per serve. That gives us about two hundred

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Speaker 1: and twenty calories per serve, nine hundred kilodel four grams

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Speaker 1: of protein. So if I was comparing it, and eggs

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Speaker 1: ten twelve grams of protein, so that's less than a

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Speaker 1: is less than just on three percent saturated fat, so

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Speaker 1: eleven percent fat overa also not a low fat option.

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Speaker 1: Carbohydrate thirty three point seven grams, so that's two decent

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Speaker 1: so eleven percent sugars in that, and they're not naturally

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Speaker 1: look at the ingredients in a second, but it's not

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Speaker 1: of dietary fiber. Now that is what we would define

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Speaker 1: six to eight, so again about half the dietary fiber.

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Speaker 1: seven milligrams of sodium, so you know, pretty low in general.

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Speaker 1: it's not a huge amount of sodium. Made in France.

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Speaker 1: The product, so the cereal component that say lists of cereals,

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Speaker 1: twenty five percent of that is whole grain cereal, which

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Speaker 1: It's got a mix of wheat flour, whole grain oat flakes,

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Speaker 1: it's likely palm bulking agent, milk, solids raising agents, mineral

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Speaker 1: it's a biscuit. I don't know. I can't. I struggle

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Speaker 1: me lean there's nothing that mimics breakfast in this product

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Speaker 1: This is a big brand overseas. It's very well recognized,

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Speaker 1: and there's perhaps a demand for it, but I think

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Speaker 1: that it's really misleading to call it breakfast because to me,

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Speaker 1: there's nothing that mimics a well balanced breakfast, which would

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Speaker 1: include a decent source of protein, much better profile of carbohydrate,

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Speaker 1: much higher amount of fiber, much less added sugar. So

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Speaker 1: I think it's really quite misleading and I'm not a fan.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no healthy fat in there either. Yeah. Really,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think you'd have to be pretty specific

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Speaker 2: It's got a bit of sugar in there. Maybe for

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Speaker 2: weight or not. This is, as you mentioned, Susie, any

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Speaker 2: sort of nourishment. Really we're missing a good serve of

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Speaker 2: healthy bad. It's the carbo hydrate load's not too bad,

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Speaker 2: but the addition of the carbohydrate it's not great. The

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Speaker 2: it's pretty affordable if you're looking for some positives. Four

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Speaker 2: just it's not something that you would actually call anything

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Speaker 2: that's sort of well rounded or nourish as a breakfast item.

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Speaker 2: It's very much a biscuit. It's very much something that

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Speaker 2: I would rather use as a snack. So four biscuits,

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Speaker 2: like you basically have four biscuits for breakfast. There's no

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Speaker 2: other way around it. It is a biscuit, even though

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Speaker 2: to be honest, I don't market it is that it's

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Speaker 2: called Belvita Breakfast milk and cereals, So as you said,

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Speaker 2: they're heavily marketed as breakfast. I don't call it a biscuit,

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Speaker 2: but let's be honest, it's a biscuit. There's no other

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Speaker 1: It, and it's in the biscuit aisle. I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 1: as well. I'm actually surprised they've survived this long. They've

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Speaker 1: just thinking who buys them, Like, I'm actually just surprised.

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Speaker 1: It's so hard in supermarket to survive, let alone this long.

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Speaker 1: Someone's buying it. But I think even for athletes there's

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Speaker 1: better options, you know what I mean, Like there's musli

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Speaker 1: But you know, it's just interesting what survives overseas and

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Speaker 1: what's popular there, because certainly that whole model of cereals

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Speaker 2: If I look at the front of packet marketing, like

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Speaker 2: that is a better option than a museally by just

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Speaker 2: and it would be healthy. I think it's low sugar,

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Speaker 1: And that's why it's misleading. Yeah, it's misleading, and that's

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Speaker 1: look at that in a second. Similar amount of hydrate

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Speaker 1: And as I said, I probably wouldn't do it again now.

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Speaker 2: I just wouldn't feel satisfied. I'd probably be looking for

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Speaker 2: Wiles is absolutely better than the bell be bars. I

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Speaker 1: And you know, when I'd use it, I wouldn't even

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Speaker 1: it's better to have it said you know Leanne and

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Speaker 1: bringing you the Nutrition Couch podcast twice weekly and we

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Speaker 1: will see you on Sunday for our weekly app drop.

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Speaker 1: Have a great week, Have

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Speaker 2: A good week everyone,