Love cereal? Make sure you’re picking a cereal that’s good for you with these 4 quick shopping tips!
What to look for in a healthy cereal:
- High fibre content (Ideally 5 grams or more per serving)
- Low sugar (Ideally less than 5-7 grams per serving)
- Whole grains
- Around 120 calories or less per serving for most cereals
Good examples:
- Shredded wheat
- Fibre1 cereal
- Wheatabix
- Bran Buds
- Bran Flakes
What to AVOID in cereals:
- Most cereals marketed heavily at kids with cartoon characters, etc. Most of these cereal are mostly sugar!
- Any cereal with SUGAR as the FIRST ingredient on the ingredient list
- Cereals with preservatives or artificial ingredients or unpronounceable ingredients
- Front-of-the-box label claims! Read the nutrition label on the BACK of the box!
Use these shopping tips next time you’re at the grocery store to evaluate your favourite cereal! And, if you are currently eating a cereal that is high in not-so-good ingredients, try MIXING your favourite cereal with some high-fibre, low-sugar cereal (and maybe even add some sliced fruits or berries!) to increase the nutrition in your breakfast bowl!
If you’d like to get more ideas for nutritious snacks that you can enjoy anytime as part of your healthy lifestyle, click below to get my free Top 25 Healthy Snack Ideas eBook:
About Amina Khan
Amina Khan is a CANfit-PRO Certified Group Fitness Instructor Specialist and founder of Amanah Fitness. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Health Psychology at Walden University. Her mission is to help others improve their health, via physical exercise and nutrition programs that are practical and life-changing. Amina’s goal is to spread the message that physical health is a component of enhanced spiritual health and a part of being a Muslim. She hopes to create a mass movement towards a healthier Ummah, inshAllah. Click here to download her Free Exercise Guide to get you burning calories with cardio intervals!