| disneymom1
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I will be starting Phase 2 in a few days and am looking for a tasty cereal to enjoy soon - Kellog's has a new cereal called Tiger Power and i want to know if it is okay to eat - i have listed the ingredients below:
Description
Lightly sweetened whole grain wheat cereal.
Ingredients:
Whole grain wheat flour, brown sugar, soy protein isolate, wheat bran, molasses, high fructose corn syrup, salt, calcium carbonate, baking soda, L-lysine, artificial flavors, sodium ascorbate and ascorbic acid (vitamin C), niacinamide, reduced iron, zinc oxide, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), riboflavin (vitamin B2), thiamin hydrochloride (vitamin B1), vitamin A palmitate, BHT (preservative), folic acid, vitamin D, vitamin B12.
Allergen Information:
Contains wheat and soy ingredients.
Kosher Status:
Kosher/Parve
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Mon Feb 14, 2005 3:14 am |
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| tam71
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I am new to this so someone plz correct me if i'm wrong but with the brown sugar being the second ingred and it having high frutcose corn syrup,i don't belive u should eat it
hope someone has some advice for what u can have instead tho.wd on starting phase 2! :D |
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Mon Feb 14, 2005 4:46 am |
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| RedRox
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General guidelines are greater than 8 gms of fiber and less than 8 gms of sugar per serving. You didn't list the nutrition info, but yes with brown sugar the 2nd ingredient and also having HFCS, it doesn't look like it would meet those guidelines very well. Really there aren't too many cereals out there that fall into that category. Heck, even oatmeal doesn't technically meet it, but has no sugar and is very heart healthy, so it seems to get a pass on the fiber content. As always, Kimboroni's FAQ, has most of these kinds of answers. Check the P2 food list from the P2 FAQ for general guidelines and there is also a Q with an A that is a post from the SBD website on allowed cereals. It looks like this:
How do I find a good cereal? Is there a list of approved cereals?
see: http://www.southbeach-diet-plan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18903
FIW, Our favorites are the Kashi Go Lean or Kashi Good Friends mixed in with some Uncle Sam's to sweeten up the Sam's which is very low sugar. We tend to alternate that with the old fashioned oatmeal during the week. |
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Mon Feb 14, 2005 5:26 am |
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| Kimboroni
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You two have the right sense of this-- I found out online that it has only 2g of fiber, with 8g of sugar. That isn't going to be a good idea.
Most of these cold cereals that cereal companies are launching or reformulating are still not going to meet the SB-friendly criteria, due to some combination of the following: bad choices of grains (corn, rice), too much sugar, or bad processing (like puffing). Whole grain is only one aspect.
Let's see what the Kraft/SB alliance comes up with. |
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Mon Feb 14, 2005 7:20 am |
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