Leave breakfast cereals too high in sugar and low in fiber on the shelves to choose healthier and more natural breakfasts for you and your children instead
Don't store avocado like this: it's dangerousAt the supermarket we find entire shelves dedicated to breakfast cereals, of which you often see advertising on TV. These products are most often passed on as an excellent solution for a quick, nutritious and healthy early morning meal when the body of young and old alike needs maximum energy to face the day. But is it really so?
If you want to look at the situation from a nutritional point of view, you just have to turn the package over and read the label (we should always do this for each product), so you can see that most of the time there is a list of ingredients that includes sugar, refined flours and in some cases artificial colors, flavors or fats (especially in the case of muesli). As Professor Berrino also says, it would be better to leave those products that contain more than 5 ingredients or that our great-grandmothers would not recognize as such where they are.
These "cereals" in reality they now have very little of the cereal, they all are very processed, in fact, we find them in various forms that obviously do not exist in nature: rings, petals, blown beans, etc. The process with which they are obtained, as you can imagine, takes place on an industrial scale using high temperatures most of the time and therefore nothing is left of nutrient (the caloric intake, yes!).
It is in particular then the large amount of sugar, often present in breakfast cereals, to be particularly harmful. A balanced breakfast, in fact, should avoid large quantities of sugar that tend to raise the blood sugar and then bring it down suddenly with the consequence of upsetting the balance of our body and making us feel tired and again eager to eat. However, many products are added with synthetic vitamins and minerals (precisely because otherwise they would be completely empty food from a nutritional point of view).
You want to get an idea of how much sugar is there actually? Watch this video…
Already in 2008 an Altroconsumo survey had highlighted just this: the much-sponsored cereals for the breakfast of children and young people contained up to 42% sugar, fat (often saturated) up to 14% e too high salt percentages. In 2012 in the United States a similar survey on breakfast cereals conducted at Yale University, had reached the same conclusion and had shown that these products were too publicized and unhealthy as they were excessively rich in sugar, sodium and low in fiber.
The situation in recent years has not changed much so there we recommend preparing a healthier breakfast for your children at home. For example, you can choose i organic whole grain oat flakes e unsweetened (obtained by crushing the grains), to which you can associate fruit, fresh juices, milk (including vegetable), etc. You can indulge yourself by making gods muesli fai da te adding nuts, seeds or other. You will spend a little more time for preparation but your breakfast will certainly be healthier and more nutritious.
Here you can get ideas for find "alternative" breakfasts:
- 10 alternative breakfasts to cappuccino and croissant
-10 healthy snacks to take to school
