Originally Posted by
Morat
Don't forget sugar - it's the cheapest bulking agent that the food industry can ram into processed food apart from water.
If you try to avoid it you'll soon become very used to reading every food label like a hawk. I was surprised to find out that I was better off eating two eggs for breakfast (150 calories on average) rather than a bowl of muesli (230 calories per small bowl).
I started eating Cheerios because of the sugar. I am a cereal breakfast kind of guy, done with breakfast in 2 minutes and moving on to get out the door and go to work. I was buying and eating all the "adult good cereal" until it and my kids' sugary cereal was sitting there in the cupboard with the nutrition label showing side by side. The sugary cereal had 13 grams of sugar, and all my "good adult" cereal also had 11-13 grams of sugar. So much for "good" cereal. Now I just eat Cheerios and I think it has 1 gram of sugar. 2 servings for 200 calories which is pretty much a full bowl (strawberries or banana added.)