I want The Daughter to eat well, but if she wants an occasional box of Kellogg’s Froot Loops, a “sweetened multi-grain cereal,” I might buy it if it’s on sale. The Wife was complaining that she had made that choice for breakfast, when she replied that it was healthier than the Kellogg’s Raisin Bran I was eating. Let’s look at the side panels:
SERVING SIZE: 1 cup (FL-29 g, RB-59g)
Calories: FL-110, RB-190. Advantage, FL.
Saturated fat: 0.5g, RB-0g. Advantage RB.
Sodium: FL 135 mg, RB-210mg. Advantage, FL.
Potassium: FL-35mg, RB-390mg. Big advantage, RB.
Total carbohydrates: FL-26g, RB-46g. Advantage, FL.
Dietary fiber: FL-3g, RB-7g. Advantage-RB.
Protein: FL-1g, RB-5g. Advantage-RB.
Then it’s all those minimum daily requirement percentages. Continue reading The Lydster, Part 121: The nutritional value of Froot Loops