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Breakfast Cereals How healthy are they? By Joanna Meehan 5 th class

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Breakfast Cereals. How healthy are they? By Joanna Meehan 5 th 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. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Breakfast Cereals

Breakfast Cereals

How healthy are they?By Joanna Meehan

5th class

Page 2: Breakfast Cereals

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

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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

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What is in Breakfast Cereal?

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Coco Pops

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

• 2g of fibre per 100g

• High in sugar• Low in fibre

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Shredded Wheat

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

• No sugar• High in fibre

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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

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Weetabix

• 10g fibre per 100g

• 1 spoon of sugar in 25 spoons of cereal

• High in fibre• Low in sugar

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SometimesCereals have sugar

to help us eat the fibre

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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

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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

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Some cereals have some fibre

but a lot of sugar!

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Cornflakes• 3g of fibre• 8g of sugar

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

every 13 spoons of cereal

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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

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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

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Lots of cereals do not provide enough fibre

only too much sugar

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Cheerios

• 2g of fibre• 1 spoon of sugar in 8

spoons of cereal

• Low in fibre• High in sugar

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Rice Krispies

• 1g of fibre per 100g• Low in fibre

• 1 spoon of sugar in 10 spoons of cereal

• High in sugar

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Coco Pops

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

• 2g of fibre per 100g

• High in sugar• Low in fibre

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Not a sugar treat

Breakfast should be

a high fibre meal