breakfast cereals

Breakfast Cereals

How healthy are they?By Joanna Meehan

5th class

What makes a healthy cereal?

Lots of fibre

Fibre fills us up so we wont be hungry.It helps our bodies work properly so we won’t

get tummy aches.

Ideally cereal should have 6g of fibre per 100g

Sugar

• Not much sugar- ideally less than 2g per 100g

• Sugar is not good for your teeth• Sugar is not good for your general health

What is in Breakfast Cereal?

Coco Pops

• More than 1 spoon of sugar in 3 spoons of cereal

• 2g of fibre per 100g

• High in sugar• Low in fibre

Shredded Wheat

• 0.7g of sugar per 100g• 11.6g of fibre per 100g

• No sugar• High in fibre

Porridge

• 8.3 g of fibre• Less than 1g of sugar• You would have to eat

100 spoons of porridge to get 1 spoon of sugar

Weetabix

• 10g fibre per 100g

• 1 spoon of sugar in 25 spoons of cereal

• High in fibre• Low in sugar

SometimesCereals have sugar

to help us eat the fibre

Shreddies

• 9g of fibre per 100g• High in fibre

• 15 g of sugar per 100 g• High in sugar• 1 spoon of sugar in 7

spoons of cereal

Fruit ‘n Fibre• 24g of sugar per 100g• 1 spoon of sugar in 4

spoons of cereal

• 9g of fibre per 100g• High in fibre• High in sugar

Some cereals have some fibre

but a lot of sugar!

Cornflakes• 3g of fibre• 8g of sugar

• Low in fibre• Medium in sugar• 1 spoon of sugar in

every 13 spoons of cereal

Special K

• 17g of sugar per 100g• 1 spoon of sugar in 6

spoons of cereal• High in sugar

• 4g of fibre per 100g• Medium in fibre

Choco Pillows

• 32g of sugar per 100g• High in sugar• 1 spoon of sugar in 3

spoons of cereal

• 4g of fibre per 100g• Medium in fibre

Lots of cereals do not provide enough fibre

only too much sugar

Cheerios

• 2g of fibre• 1 spoon of sugar in 8

spoons of cereal

• Low in fibre• High in sugar

Rice Krispies

• 1g of fibre per 100g• Low in fibre

• 1 spoon of sugar in 10 spoons of cereal

• High in sugar

Coco Pops

• More than 1 spoon of sugar in 3 spoons of cereal

• 2g of fibre per 100g

• High in sugar• Low in fibre

Not a sugar treat

Breakfast should be

a high fibre meal