Square Galaxy » nutrition http://squaregalaxy.com A blog by Jacob Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:11:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Sugar cereals http://squaregalaxy.com/insights/sugar-cereals/ http://squaregalaxy.com/insights/sugar-cereals/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:45:59 +0000 Jacob http://squaregalaxy.com/?p=2132
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    When I was younger, my mom would never allow us to have certain “sugar cereals” except for special occasions like Christmas. It turns out, that my mom had good cause for this.

    A recent consumer report reviews children’s cereals and finds that there is a lot of sugar in them.  Who would have guessed?  Oh, yeah, my mom did.

    Honey Smacks and Golden Crisp are almost 50% sugar, by weight.  That is gross.  

    12 cereals reviewed had as much sugar as a glazed donut in one serving.  A serving size is 3/4 cup–I usually eat at least two servings.

    If you are looking for a more healthy cereal: Cheerios, Kix, Honey Nut Cheerios, and Life contain relatively low amounts of sugar and higher amounts of dietary fiber.

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    • ]]>     A friend of mine was recently eating some packaged cookies, and we noticed something odd about the nutritional facts. We noticed that the calories didn’t quite match up.
    Cookie nutritional label
    Notice how there are two cookies per package, and that each cookie has 170 calories. 2 cookies per package times 170 calories per cookie equals 340 calories per package. But the package shows that there are 350 calories per package. So where are these extra 10 calories coming from?

    You will see a similar error when you look at calories from fat.

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