Healthy Cereals

****** Cereals can be great sources of fiber. But its very important to read the label to know what you're really getting. Foods such as these...

Cereals can be great sources of fiber. But it’s very important to read the label to know what you’re really getting. Foods such as these ones here have a lot of fiber per serving. Eight grams of fiber in one serving, that’s a high amount of fiber. You’ll see that the percentage amount in a 2,000 calorie diet is 32% so that’s pretty high. If you can find cereals that have 5,6,7,8 grams of fiber, that’s a very healthy choice. Cereals such as these down here are lower in fiber. So for example this cereal only has 1 gram of fiber per serving and it has a lot of sugar, 16 grams. So this cereal is not as healthy. It contains a lot of added sugar and not a lot of fiber. Same with this cereal here. This actually has 0 grams of fiber, so even worse than the first one and 14 grams of sugar. So again, this is not as healthy of a choice. Somebody who eats cereal like this will usually feel hungry pretty soon after eating it because fiber helps keep you full longer. So if you’re eating a cereal with no fiber, it’s mostly sugar and it’s going to absorb into your bloodstream pretty quickly.