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Children who ate high sugar breakfasts ate significantly larger portions and were less likely to choose fruit to add to their cereals, than their low sugar consuming counterparts. Even when sugar was added by the participants to their cereals, the low sugar participants added greater volumes of sugar but still came out lower (by almost half) in their overall sugar consumption at breakfast.
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Children who ate a low sugar breakfast consumed a larger portion of their calories from the fresh fruit available. All children reported "liking" or "loving" their breakfast but when asked to rate high sugar cereals alongside low sugar cereals, high sugar obviously won. So is the best solution then, to only offer low sugar cereals?
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I would suggest that prepared breakfast cereals are not the best choice for breakfasts (see below) but if necessary, then make a choice for low sugar as well as low salt. Last year Choice compared and published the nutritional content of a range of Australian breakfast cereals including all cereals marketed directly at children. They used the traffic light system to act as a guide for appropriate levels of saturated fats, sugars and salt. Very few cereals passed the review.
In this week's research the difference between high sugar and low sugar groups was clear in nutritional outcomes. What are you children eating for breakfast?
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NOTE: for a healthy breakfast start with fresh fruit and live yoghurt (with no sugar added). Add a boiled egg and some sourdough, or homemade bircher muesli to fill up further. For a breakfast on the run, a fibre filled berry smoothie could be another option. Enjoy!
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