WEBVTT - TNC Review: Kids' Cereals 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.240 We all care about our kids' health, but sometimes it 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:07.200 can be really difficult to decipher the nutrition labels of 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:10.080 the foods that kids like to eat but that are 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:13.600 also healthy. So is it possible for us to be 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:16.200 able to balance the health of our kids with some 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:19.760 food choices that the kids are happy with? Two Hi, 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:22.000 I'm Susie Barrel and on Liam Wood, and as two 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:24.400 of us Jays leading dieticians, we bring you the Nutrition 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:27.360 Couch product review, a weekly chat on old products and 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:30.720 new favorites you can find in supermarkets. I think I 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:33.839 just turn that around, but anyway, we'll just go with it. 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:38.880 So on today's episode, Leanne, you have chosen three kids 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:41.080 breakfast cereals, which I actually don't think that we have 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:44.319 done before on the Nutrition Couch. But I know this 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:46.639 can be really tricky for parents because we all want 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:48.760 the kids to have something healthy before they go to school, 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:51.440 and how do you know, like the cereal section is 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:53.920 really difficult to decipher, and you've sort of got those 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:57.520 traditional sort of sugary favorites of children that maybe you 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.480 and I had on holidays but maybe quite par and 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:02.880 then you've got kind of the plainer options as well. 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:04.840 And then there's some in between. So I love that 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:09.400 you've chosen three sort of contrasting products to look at today. 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:14.160 My kids don't eat cereal. Actually, they are much more 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:18.800 sort of toast in the morning. And probably partly my 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:21.160 fault land, I haven't really ever introduced it to them 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.760 because I wasn't a massive serial eader. I myself like 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:29.000 a Brandy mix or a sort of nice Carmen's granola. 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.800 But yeah, my kids are not big cereal eaters. What 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:33.920 about little Mea? What's she haven't for breakfast? 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:35.839 Yeah, she loves a good cheer pudding and an overn 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:37.920 adut in New So she was a cheer putting snob 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.160 shit one every day from the local cafe. She loved it, 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.920 chihuba and an entire one for herself. And also we 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.200 do the kids weeks, which we're going to talk about today, 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:46.959 especially when she was little. I found that that was 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.560 really easy. It just was so soft. And for teething 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:51.000 as well, I'll put cold milk in it, and I 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.160 think she does really well with that. So she does that, 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.320 she does some over at oats, she does a avocado 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:57.960 on toast sometimes. Yeah, she's kind of gone off her eggs, 0:01:57.960 --> 0:01:59.240 which is a bit of a shame in the morning, 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:00.600 so we're sort of limited. I used to make a 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:03.040 lot of French toasts and some Eggy pancakes, but she's 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.200 not really a faner than these days, so we don't 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:06.800 do a lot of cereal. Like there just aren't that 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:08.959 great options out there, if I'm being honest. But I 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.040 think Weekbix is a really nice one to start on, 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.560 particularly at the little kids range, which is the first 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.320 one that we're going to chat about today, which I like. 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:19.480 It's the Sanitarium Whebaks little Kids Essentials Breakfast Cereal and 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:21.240 now we know that Weebeax is the highest selling breakfast 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.560 real in Australia, but this is the kid's version, and 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.240 we'll talk about the differences and why it's marketed as 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:29.239 a different one for kids. So it retails at a 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:30.959 very reasonable price point, I have to say at the 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:32.720 moment when the cluster of food is through the roof 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:37.239 for for four hundred grams, it's four dollars fifty, which seems, 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:39.680 as I said, to be quite reasonable given current times. 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:43.200 Certainly it's a cost effective way for families to provide breakfast. 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:45.160 It's got a five health star rating. If we look 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.519 at the ingredient list, it's pretty clean. It's ninety seven 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:49.560 percent whole grain cereals, which is what we love to 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:52.920 see lean dieticians. We love the idea of whole grains. 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:55.760 Of that ninety seven percent seventy seven percent whet, ten 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:59.040 percent rye, and ten percent sawgum. Then it's followed by 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:02.440 raw sugar, calcium rich seaweed, which is a very interesting addition. 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.880 I don't think I've seen that previously in food, Barley, 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.720 malt extract, and some added minerals so iron and zinc, 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.080 as well as vitamin's B three, B two, B six, 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.360 B one and FOLL eight. Now I'll have a look 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:14.920 at the nutritionals which you've cut and paste into massive 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.320 form for me, So thanks for that. What I will 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:19.680 say straight away, though, is that if I've got something 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.160 that is a whole grain serial ninety seven percent, even 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:24.840 though sugar's up there, it's a reasonably small amount, but 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:26.360 we can have a look over all what that looks like. 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:29.760 So per serving, they're thirty three grams served, so I'm 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:33.040 assuming that's sort of two smallish biscuits, comes in just 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:35.080 over one hundred calories. At four hundred and eighty two 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:37.800 kilodeels coming in four grams of protein, which is not 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.840 insignificant really because if you added milk to that, you're 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.160 getting close to sort of fifteen grams. That's a pretty 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:46.720 decent breakfast load. So that whole grain cereal content is 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.360 bumping up the protein, very little to no fat as 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:52.560 you would expect. Carbohydrate twenty one grams, of which one 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:56.160 gram is sugar or it's less than three percent sugar overall, 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:59.320 so not completely sugar free. I think vitebrates from memory 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.400 have got no added sugar, four grams of dietary fiber perserve, 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:05.000 which is not insignificant. That is a really good dose 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:07.720 for a small child, and very little salt. So I 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:10.000 think the standout feature of this compared to a number 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.440 of cereals is that it's got no added sodium, so 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:16.560 particularly good for very small children. For mely and it's 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:19.080 about an eight. I don't like sugar added for a 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.719 kid's breakfast cereal, to be honest, I probably wouldn't spend 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.520 and spend on little kids weep weeks. I probably would 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.000 just use the regular ones because the nutritional profile of 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.640 those are pretty good, and I myself would probably go 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.320 for Vitebrits only because they've got no added sugar. But 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:37.040 you know, it's a solid cereal choice. You know, it's 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:38.760 maybe i'd give it eight out of ten. It's a 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:41.320 really solid choice. It's got some fortification with iron, although 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:42.919 it's not come up on this label here, but I 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.200 think it's twenty five percent if we can look very 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:48.200 closely at the small print and some you know, really 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.000 nice amounts of dietary fiber. So if a client came 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:52.720 to me and was having this, or if I was 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:55.599 suggesting a cereal product, I would have no qualms recommending 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:56.520 this at all. 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:57.920 Will not be I'm going to give it a nine 0:04:57.960 --> 0:04:59.600 to nine and a half. I honestly do think out 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:01.320 of all kids CRUs it is one of the top 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:03.360 on the market. You are paying a little bit more 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:05.760 for the little kids' rain, so if budgeting is a cost, 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:07.840 I would say just go for the standard We'd picks. 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.360 But the standard Weebix does have a little bit more sodium. 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:12.640 So for very little kids I'm talking under twelve months, 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:14.680 just be weary of for that. It's not something I'd 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:16.880 be giving every single day. But I don't think you 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:20.520 can go past a cereal that's ninety seven percent whole grains. Yes, 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.720 there's added sugar in there, but considering what most kids 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:26.479 get in through fruit and fruit bars and roll ups 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:28.440 and all that sort of thing, like, I'm so happy 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:30.839 to recommend a cereal with one gram abouted sugar. So 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:32.640 for me, I'm giving it a nine and nine and 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:34.320 a half. I really don't think that there's much more 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:36.280 on the market that can beat this. It's also got 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:38.160 a little bit of added probotics as well, which is 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.560 great for our gut health and the vitamins as well, 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:42.279 you know, I think that's really good. So for me, 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:44.320 it gets a thumbs up in every area. And I 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.280 add a little bit of healthy fats in there as well, 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:49.000 just because it's mostly you know, a carbohydrate type food, 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.239 which is great for little growing kids. But I always 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.159 sprinkle some hem seeds or some cheer seas, or a 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.400 bit of LSA or flax onto me as one she's 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:57.400 got allergies towards nuts. But you can use some crush 0:05:57.520 --> 0:05:59.560 nuts or some nut paste as well if you like. 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:01.240 But I think balancing it out with a bit of 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:03.200 fat and a bit of milk, whatever you know your 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:05.279 kids choose to consume is a really nice, sort of 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.800 well balanced breakfast and depending on their age, add a 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:09.360 little bit of fruit in there as well. So I 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.200 think it's just it's quick and easy, it's really soft 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.760 for little kids to start on, and it's good for teethings, 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.080 so it gets all the ticks in my boxes. But yeah, 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.479 budgeting is a concerned. It is more expensive than just 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.000 the standard Wheatbix range. You definitely don't need to go 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:23.040 for the little kids range once they were over sort 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.280 of twelve months. I think they're both very good. The 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:27.440 Standard week biks of standard vitebrates, as you mentioned, it 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:29.360 is Australian. It is no outed sugar, so it does 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:31.640 sort of trump the standard week Bix. But yeah, I 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.479 think this one for the little little eaes is quite 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:35.039 a good one. 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.480 The next one we're looking at is a controversial one. 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:42.080 It's the Nesse Whole Grain Energy and Fiber Milo Cereal. Now, 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.000 at the time we are publishing this, it was half 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:46.640 priced at three dollars twenty five, but normally six dollars 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.240 fifty for three hundred and fifty gram so a whole 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:51.680 two dollars more for less than compared to what you're 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:55.719 getting with the kids at, wheatbiks, whole grain cereal fifty percent, 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:57.760 So that's twenty five percent less than what you were 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:00.040 getting on like almost half. Sorry, I should save what 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.200 you were getting with the whole grainwet BIX, of which 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.720 thirty four percent was wheat, sixteen percent corn, followed by 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:10.480 sugar as the basically second ingredient formulated supplementary food based 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.320 which is Milo itself, which is ten percent of the 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:17.560 total cereal is Milo. Now Milo is heavily fortified with 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:20.360 key vitamins, but it's also basically quite high in sugar, 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:23.240 so that to make the MILEA, you're getting melt extracts, milk, 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:27.920 powdered sugar, cocoa, choc malt, blend plus calcium iron vitamins CEE, 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:30.400 B three, B six, B two, D and B twelve, 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:31.920 so it does tick the box and a number of 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:35.440 those a multifier wheat flour, cocoa and malt, extra skim milk, 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.920 powdered vegetable oil flavors and multipliers salt vitamins, minerals. Again 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.920 quite heavily fortified. Now very long ingredient list, very long 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:46.400 ingredient list. We look at the nutritionols for eighty kilogees, 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:49.600 so again just over one hundred calperserve, two point seven 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.400 grams of protein, so not overly high, not overly low, 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.160 but not overly high. One point four grams are fat, 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.160 zero point four saturated, coming a bit from the milk 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:01.800 and coco through there. One point five grams of carbohydrate, 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.880 but are massive eight grams of sugar per serve. Now 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:06.720 the serve is only thirty grams, so almost a third 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:08.200 of that product is sugar. 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.720 Let's be honest, most people eating far more than thirty grams. 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:12.760 Oh yeah, thirty grams is quite not much for of 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:15.880 a breakfast guarantee. Most people eating sixty, if not ninety 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:17.600 to one hundred grams of the cereal. 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.480 Well because it's sweet too, hey, so you just load 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:21.920 up the bowl. But that's a massive amount of sugar. 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.320 It's like almost a third, you know, too high for 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:26.320 kids like wow, we want them to be on less 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:28.640 than twenty five grams of addeds per day. That's like 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.440 a quarter of their intake and even more than for 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.160 little kids. And the fibers not greatly And two point 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.120 three grams is not high. I'd want to breakfast cereal 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.079 to at least have three if not closer to five, 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:41.600 so I'm pretty disappointed. Yes, it is fortified, it's got 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:45.400 a whole lot of vitamins, vitamin D, B, twelve, iron, zinc. 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:48.439 But I'm not giving my client cereal for the nutrients. 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.960 I'm giving it for the good quality fuel and dietary fiber, 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.480 and unfortunately for me, this falls way short on those 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.560 key nutrients. It's got way too much sugar and it's 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.360 got not enough fiber for me to choose it as 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:04.240 a regular daily breakfast cereal of choice. I give it 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:05.600 a five at best. 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:07.800 You're being generous. I was gonna go three or four. 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:11.080 It's something that is super popular, and because it's promoted 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.560 heavily within athletes, I think a lot of parents think, oh, 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.160 it's milow cereal. It's not that bad. You know, milo's 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.240 low GI. It's quite good for you. But let's just 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:20.960 break down that ingredient list again, Susie. It's fifty percent 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.920 whole grains. It's heavily promoted as a whole grain type cereal, 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:26.400 but it's only got two grams of dietary fiber in it, 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.360 so it's just not great from that perspective. The second 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:32.319 ingredient is sugar. So it's fifty percent whole grains, followed 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.280 by sugar, followed by Milo at ten percent. So if 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:38.040 you break that down, that's a high sugar product. In fact, 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:41.040 it's twenty five percent sugar in this cereal. It's twenty 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:44.480 six point six grams of sugar per hundred grams. That's 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:46.640 a lot of sugar. It's a high sugar cereal. There's 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:50.040 nothing healthy about this. Yes, as you mentioned, it is fortified, 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.200 but if you're giving your kids like a high sugar 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.160 cereal for the fortification, honestly, you're not doing it right. 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:56.920 Like they need to be getting their nutrients from other 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:00.560 whole food sources. So for me, just even the cost 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.040 of it, like it's nearly seven dollars for a box 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.960 of it, it's not inexpensive. E. They're sure it's delicious 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.240 and kids love it, But I would be using something 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:11.040 like this with say, for example, two week bigs or 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.480 two vitebriots and sprinkling one or two tablespoons of the 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.559 Milo cereal on top, versus actually giving them an entire 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:19.000 bowl of Milo cereal like I was not, Like my 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:21.079 mum was very health conscious growing up. We would never 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:22.800 allowed something like this. And if we did have it 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.200 on a special occasion. We would make a box last 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:26.920 month like she would make us, you know, use a 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:29.440 good quality whole grain usually or some Vita Briots or something, 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:31.240 and we'd sprinkle a little bit on top of an 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.960 actual base of a healthier cereal. So we'd use it 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:35.400 to add a little bit of sort of flavor and 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:37.480 sugar in there. But we absolutely would never allowed a 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:40.160 whole bowl of Milo cereal for breakfast. I think that's 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:41.880 a good way to use it. If your kids love it. 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:44.520 That's a really smart way to do it, I think too. Yeah, 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:46.960 with negotiating with kids. So it's not saying you know, 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.000 a no, it's saying this is how we use it. 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:50.360 It's not the base, but if you want a bit 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.079 of flavor, actually really like that as a tip. All right. 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:54.719 And the third product we're going to talk about is 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.160 a really interesting product because this range of the No 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:00.000 Nasis project we've spoken about in terms of lower sugar cooks, 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.079 and they've sort of ventured into the area of cereal. 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.720 So this is the No Nasties fruity fifty percent less 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.760 sugar fruity loops cereal. So it's basically designed to be 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.600 a healthier version of good old fruit loops now two 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.199 hundred and eighty five grams at six forty so not inexpensive, 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.240 significantly more than the cereals we've spoken about. If we 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:19.199 look at the ingredient list, it's interestingly and so the 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:21.880 first ingredients is rice flour. Now that is a heavily 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.920 refined grain, it's not whole grain, so that's that's interesting, 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:29.000 followed by wholemeal wheat flour, sugar, natural sweetness, so they're 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:32.960 basically sweetening with erythrotol and stevia salt natural colors to 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:35.600 it to get those colors, similar to fruit loops, food 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.160 acid and multifier natural flavors. God does have some wine 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:42.040 added vitamins B one, B two, B three. I'm just 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:45.079 remembering my p groot vitamins and folic acids. 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:46.959 One of them is BE six and I said rather 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:50.200 flavor diamond and following us, Yeah, and the sweetness are 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:52.600 with retol and steavia. So the natural types of sweetness, 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:53.120 which is good. 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.120 Yeah, So similar thirty gram serving size, which like you 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.800 described as not very much, just over one hundred calories 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:00.960 at four hundred and eighty three kildeels two point six 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:04.080 grams of protein. You know, they're very low in fat, 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:06.920 twenty four grams of carbo hydrate perserve and four grams 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.240 of sugars, which is not as low as how wheat bix, 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.560 not overly high, but still go a little bit, but 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.400 leanne like one point two grams of dietary fiber. And 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:17.680 all I will say is, if you're going to go 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.440 and formulate this flash cereal and claim to be healthier, 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:23.520 stick some fiber in there. Like one point two grams 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.120 is so low, you know, even if you would say 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:28.040 it's a healthier I wouldn't even say it's a healthier 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.240 fruit loops because it's got no fiber in it. So 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:32.800 I don't like the grain. I don't like that. It's 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:36.199 rice flour that's a high GI grain. It's heavily refined. 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:39.120 So even though it's lower in sugarly and I'm giving this, 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:41.080 you know, low, I'm giving it a four. I don't 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:42.920 like it. I think that if you're going to be 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.240 playing in the health area, you've got to make sure 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:48.360 you're ticking a minimum things like a whole grain component 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:50.960 and dietary fiber. And for me, this doesn't do any 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.480 even though it's heavily marketing on less sugar, it's a 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:54.240 bit disappointing. 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:56.560 Yeah, when you compare it to fruit loops directly, it's 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:58.680 certainly a better option. I mean, a box of fruit 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:00.800 Loops to eighty five grams of froot Loops just looking 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.160 at coals right now is seven dollars, So this is 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:06.800 actually twenty five grams similar size, it's six dollars forty. 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:09.400 It's actually cheaper than buying a box of fruit loops. 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:11.280 So it is if your kids love that and you're 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:14.000 looking for a better version of it, certainly this is better. 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.680 The flavors are natural, we're not getting the added colors 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:18.840 like froot loops, and the sweetness are natural as well. 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.200 Plus you're getting it about half the amount of sugar 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.960 so per serving in fruit loops, which is a thirty 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:27.319 gram serving. As well, the sugars are eleven point six grams, 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:29.600 so this is actually it's nearly a third less sugar. 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:32.880 This is only four grams per serving the dietary fiber 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.679 and fruit Loops is point seven. This is one point 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:38.760 two grams per serve. So certainly it's better. But when 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.320 we compare it to what we would want, it's definitely 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:43.600 I'd be a little bit more generous souzie. I'd give 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:46.280 it a five. Maybe's certainly a lot less sugar than 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.280 a lot of other brands out there in terms of 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.320 kid cereals, but there's no real positive nutritional benefit. You're 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.280 just getting a ton of carbs from this. There's no 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:56.679 real healthy fats, there's no great quality whole grains in there. 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.200 There's no real you know, even protein from things like 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.160 our nuts and our sea that we'd like to see. 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.680 So it is what it is. It's a better option 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:05.959 than fruit loops itself. But you know, I don't think 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:08.080 you have to be Einstein to work out that fruit 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.360 loops aren't actually good for you. So certainly, if your 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:12.079 kids are obsessed with fruit loops, so you want a 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:14.560 better option, this is certainly something to play with. But 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:16.920 again I'd be mixing it with a couple of vita 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:18.880 bread sauce and wheat bigsil, putting in a bit of 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.000 good quality depending on the age if it's a bit 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.960 older kids, some good quality granola or musically or that 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.040 sort of thing, with a nice blend of fruit and 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.320 mix as well to add in some healthy fats to 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.760 just reduce down the whole carbohydrate load there as well, 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:33.480 so it is what it is. I thought it was 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:35.400 an interesting one to pop in there because I think 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:37.960 most people are aware that things like our standard froot 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.320 loops and Coco Pops that you know, you and I 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.360 grew up in that generation where that was all you 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.120 saw on a kid's breakfast table. Most of us know 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.120 that those sorts of things aren't healthy. So to see 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.400 some better varieties out there as nice. But let's be real, 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.160 it's not a great option, like, it's not something we'd 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:54.720 be recommending. 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