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yes, but look at the label: you also get barley malted flour, canola oil partially hydrogenated, and sunflower oil partially hydrogenated.
Process of hydrogenation creates trans fatty acids. ( those oils are not natural, but processed). Also artificially added vitamins, which might cause vitamin overload. You also get MSG and Gluten.
I just checked, because this was bothering me. I try to stay away from partially hydrogenated oils, and I was sure I wouldn't have bought Grape Nuts recently if I saw that on the label. Your ingredients you list are incorrect.
The ingredients are: whole grain wheat flour, malted barley flour, salt, dried yeast, reduced iron, niacimide (form of vitamin B3), zinc oxide, vitamin B6, vitamin A palmitate, vitamin B2, vitamin B1, vitamin B12, vitamin D, and folic acid.
No partially hydrogenated oils, no MSG. I've never heard of vitamin overload, but these don't even come near the recommended daily allowance of the vitamins & minerals listed, though giving you 90% of the iron you need is pretty impressive for a cereal! the vitamin pills I take every day are also "artificially added vitamins;" that doesn't mean they're bad.
I have no gluten concerns, so no problem there. A tiny bit of salt isn't going to hurt, and I have low blood pressure anyway, so maybe more salt would be good! Malted barley flour isn't bad: "malted" just means soaked in water and dried with hot air.
I think I'm heading out to buy a few more boxes after work! Love that gravel!
About the only kind of cold cereal I eat anymore is the granola-type sold in bulk from stores like Sprouts, and I top it with fruit such as berries or bananas. Although, I *do* on rare occasions like those sugary kids' cereals like Sugar Pops or Cap'n Crunch.
Then I assume there are few different kinds of Grape Nuts and you got the healthy one.
As of the unnecessary vitamin overload, it's easy because lots of food is enriched or fortified. You get cereal with added vitamins, then bread also with added vitamins, then you have milk or juice, also with vitamins, maybe energy bar or smoothie... It adds up. Some are water soluble, some are stored in tissue, some goes through the liver.
I would also look at where the vitamins come from... http://www.precisionnutrition.com/al...in-supplements
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I just checked, because this was bothering me. I try to stay away from partially hydrogenated oils, and I was sure I wouldn't have bought Grape Nuts recently if I saw that on the label. Your ingredients you list are incorrect.
The ingredients are: whole grain wheat flour, malted barley flour, salt, dried yeast, reduced iron, niacimide (form of vitamin B3), zinc oxide, vitamin B6, vitamin A palmitate, vitamin B2, vitamin B1, vitamin B12, vitamin D, and folic acid.
No partially hydrogenated oils, no MSG. I've never heard of vitamin overload, but these don't even come near the recommended daily allowance of the vitamins & minerals listed, though giving you 90% of the iron you need is pretty impressive for a cereal! the vitamin pills I take every day are also "artificially added vitamins;" that doesn't mean they're bad.
I have no gluten concerns, so no problem there. A tiny bit of salt isn't going to hurt, and I have low blood pressure anyway, so maybe more salt would be good! Malted barley flour isn't bad: "malted" just means soaked in water and dried with hot air.
I think I'm heading out to buy a few more boxes after work! Love that gravel!
This is my favorite site: search food recipes, food ingredients, all about the food you eat (http://www.foodfacts.com/search/index.cfm?type=keyword&query=Grape%20nuts - broken link)
There aren't different kinds of Grape Nuts. Grape Nuts are just Grape Nuts. Grape Nuts Flakes are a totally different cereal and have nothing really in common with Grape Nuts except part of the name and the maker. Anything made into a "flake" cereal obviously will have some binder in it, something sticky, meaning sugar based or fat based. But when I was talking about Grape Nuts, I wasn't talking about flakes (which to me are awful as they get soggy too quickly).
It's like criticizing Cheerios by pointing to the ingredients in Honey Nut Cheerios. Two different things.
With the 'bad press' given Grape nuts in this thread... I will need to find a new 'source of Fiber' to adorn my Homemade Ice Cream (Maybe my current Grape-Nut-Garnish is worse for me than the homemade Ice CREAM. (and I thought I was being so smart...)
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I will need to find a new 'source of Fiber' to adorn my Homemade Ice Cream (Maybe my current Grape-Nut-Garnish is worse for me than the homemade Ice CREAM
. (and I thought I was being so smart...
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