Eating Cereal or the Box: Which is Healthier?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Is cereal bad for you? Let’s talk about it.
If you had to choose between consuming cereal or the box it came in, my assumption would be that the box is a healthier choice.
There was a recall on certain cereals a few years ago because of a problem with the boxes that could possibly create temporary nausea and diarrhea in some people. But, even so, the cereal inside of the box is more concerning.
Cereal is promoted as being healthy, yet it’s an ultra-processed food with added sugar. It also contains grains and synthetic vitamins. Not only that, but companies have made outrageous claims regarding their cereal brands.
There is even a loophole allowing companies to add maltodextrin or corn syrup to the cereal and list them as carbohydrates, even though they behave like sugars.
While they may say you could experience various health consequences if you stop consuming cereal, I believe the only consequence would be a healthier body.
The healthiest breakfast food for kids is actually eggs. Ditch cereal and learn more about the health benefits of eggs in my other videos.
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| 0:00.0 | if you had a choice between eating some kellogg's corn pops okay or eating the box it came in |
| 0:08.7 | which one would be considered healthier go ahead and comment down below i initially thought |
| 0:14.0 | it would be the box but apparently i'm completely wrong because there was a recall a few years |
| 0:19.3 | ago on four kellogg's cereals. We got corn pops, |
| 0:23.6 | we got honey smacks, fruit loops, it's spelled F-R-O-O-T, so it's not actual fruit because there's |
| 0:30.2 | no fruit in it, and Apple Jacks. So they recalled 28 million boxes of cereal. |
| 0:38.3 | That's a lot of cereal. |
| 0:40.3 | So first thing is that kind of got my attention is I'm like, |
| 0:43.3 | that's just four cereals that they recalled, right? |
| 0:45.3 | That's not all the cereal that they have out there. |
| 0:48.3 | And then if you go to the grocery store, |
| 0:49.3 | this might be a shocker, and I'm being very sarcastic, |
| 0:52.3 | they have an entire aisle in the grocery |
| 0:54.7 | store dedicated to cereals. Incredible. So what does this tell me? It tells me that there's a lot |
| 1:01.9 | of kids or adults eating cereal to have that much cereal. And the bigger surprise was that |
| 1:09.0 | there's really nothing in the actual cereal that they did a recall on. It was actually in the box. |
| 1:13.6 | Apparently there was some, and they described it as this, uncharacteristic, off flavor and smell. |
| 1:20.6 | It had a metallic smell to it, which possibly could create, but only temporary, some nausea and diarrhea in some people. |
| 1:29.4 | And it is true that when you eat things, part of the box it came in does end up in your body. |
| 1:36.4 | Now the other thing that's interesting when I was reading up on this is that Kellogg's had a little history |
| 1:41.9 | and apparently it started out as being somewhat a health |
| 1:46.5 | food because he used certain fiber extracts and at that time didn't have all this extra sugar. |
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