breakfast cereals
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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 PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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