Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Original Breakfast Cereal made with wheat, oats and corn is a source of protein and fibre, a great way to start the day.
It has the iconic malty taste and crunch families love, and is also 4 health stars
Source of Protein
Source of Fibre
Good Source of Iron
Suitable for vegans.
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Guys don't fall for the "protein" marketing. This has the same protein as two slices of bread (and it is gluten-based, just like bread protein).
It's just sugared wheat.
This has the same protein as two slices of bread
You're going to have to share this bread, because this has much more protein per calorie than the standard Coles white bread
Who is calorie matching Nutri-Grain to bread?
A serve of this (40g) contains the same protein in grams as a serve of bread (2 slices). Just grabbed a standard Helga's for comparison.
If you have more than a serve of this, compare to more than a serve of bread.
Edit: you can calorie-match of course, but then you're just getting misled by the relative lack of fat. What you're not noticing is that a 50% increase in protein should be contrasted with a 480% increase in added sugar.
Who is calorie matching Nutri-Grain to bread?
Why would you use any other comparison? We aren't 8 years old, we should be able to read the actual nutrition label lol
This has more protein per gram and per calorie than Helga's bread
@Wolfenstein98k: So can you please point where the "protein" marketing isn't accurately portraying this as a high-protein food?
@DiscountForThee: It's true, in the sense that having a cup of milk is a high protein food. But no other "protein" product has this much added sugar. It's an obscene amount.
It's true, in the sense that having a cup of milk is a high protein food.
Exactly, milk is a great source of protein? What is your point here?
@DiscountForThee: The marketing is dodgy because the amount of protein is not particularly high*, but the added sugar is obscene. To get a meal's worth of protein from this product, you have to eat 9 teaspoons of added sugar (100g of carbs).
*It is higher than other cereals, but not higher than any reasonable high protein food. It's barely more than a single egg.
Guys don't fall for the "protein" marketing
It is higher than other cereals
Glad we got this sorted, thanks!
Helga's bread grains and seeds is 10.2g/100g protein.
Nutri-Grain is 21.8g/100g (excluding the additional protein you'll get from the milk as well).
Which Helga's bread are you looking at?
I've already addressed this above. I've given the numbers for serve-matched, but also for calorie matched.
No one eats 90g of Nutri-Grain, but they easily eat 90g of bread.
You'd be eating an obscene amount of sugar with the Nutri-Grain.
I've given the numbers for serve-matched
Terrible way to look at nutrition, pretty much ever
@DiscountForThee: Well, no. The serving size is a normal way to compare food.
I also gave the figures for calorie-matched (noting the 480% increase in sugar), although no one has ever calorie-matched things except a few health conscious people, who wouldn't be eating this rubbish in the first place.
The protein from this product is just added gluten anyway.
The serving size is a normal way to compare food.
Well, no. Serving sizes are largely arbitrary and are useless when comparing different types of foods. Use a gram or calorie comparison to get anything useful
The protein from this product is just added gluten anyway.
Why is it relevant to the discussion, and why did you bring this up?
@DiscountForThee: So that people understand it's the same protein as in bread, it's not whey or something popular. I'm comparing to bread, which is a common alternative to Nutri-Grain.
You can call serving sizes arbitrary, but they're what we have to work with, and quite a few people use them. You may not, that's fine.
But comparing per 100g is also goofy, because I doubt many people eat that much Nutri-Grain, especially after seeing it has as much sugar as a small can of Coke.
But comparing per 100g is also goofy, because I doubt many people eat that much Nutri-Grain, especially after seeing it has as much sugar as a small can of Coke.
Okay, I get where the confusion is coming from. You were under the impression that people were suggesting you need to eat 100g of the cereal.
Lmao. It's chosen as a reference unit, which can then be scaled up or down for the person eating it or whatever other food they're comparing.
You can call serving sizes arbitrary, but they're what we have to work with, and quite a few people use them
And those people are goofy, too, and should be told to look at the actual nutrition label.
@DiscountForThee: Yes, 100g is literally arbitrary.
Unlike serving size, which isn't.
Comparing per 100g is retarded when you don't eat roughly 100g of each. It's meaningless except to get a feeling for percentages.
It makes more sense to look at a serving size than to pour whatever and then try and work out a percentage.
Anyway, this garbage is full of sugar and you should have toast or something instead, or better yet real porridge.
Yes, 100g is literally arbitrary.
Unlike serving size, which isn't.
Comparing per 100g is retarded
Lmao, okay, this explains so much about you. I don't have the high school teacher patience necessary to teach you just how goofy you sound and how much you're missing the entire point
@DiscountForThee: Arbitrary has a meaning, look it up.
Serving sizes were come up with for a reason. Most people completely ignore them, but most people don't read the ingredients and nutrition panel and see that Nutri-Grain is sugary garbage and that you'd be better off having toast with two eggs, for less sugar, more complex carbs, and more protein to boot.
Serving sizes were come up with for a reason.
Sorry mate, good stuff, this has gotta be the highest quality trolling I've experienced in a while. 4.9/5 ⭐
I don't know any Kellogs cereal that contains less than 20% added sugar. Even their cereals advertised as healthy like Special K are about 20% sugar.
Even original All-Bran is high in sugar, although it's also extremely high in fibre.
I don't mind people eating this junk so long as they're aware it has Coke levels of sugar, but many aren't aware, and think that 8g of protein is somehow a "high protein start to the day".
True for most. Special K is only 13.9g/100g
A few years ago it was 19. They must have changed the recipe.
There are far healthier sources of protein than this shite. Yes it tastes nice I get it, but don't fall for the marketing. "A great way to start the day!?" You've got to be kidding. Great for your insulin levels and diabetes is about it. Health stars are a complete joke. Learn how to read nutrition labels instead. If you're using this to get your daily protein you'd better be an iron man, or a labourer in order to burn up all the excess sugar.
in order to burn up all the excess sugar.
Sugar has very little impact to what needs to be burned off. This has the same calorie density as literal plain oats (which would require the same effort to "burn up" as this cereal). Except, this cereal has higher protein
Yes they have a similar number of kJ or Calories /100g. But 36% of Nutri-grain's carbs come from processed sugar while oats are almost 100% complex carbs. There's a bloody big difference in how the body processes the two.
It's easy enough to say they have the same caloric density, but put another way, if you know even a small amount about healthy nutrition, which one you gonna be putting in your body every day?
There's a bloody big difference in how the body processes the two.
Not in terms of needing to be "an iron man, or a labourer in order to burn up" the food lol
You either are burning enough calories, or you aren't. This has more protein than oats, and protein has more usefulness than carbs
@DiscountForThee: Ok. Fair point about the burning calories. Are you just striving for nutritional accuracy here or are you actually advocating for Nutri-grain? I can't tell. Yes it has more protein than oats (never said otherwise), but at the cost of consuming a stack of processed sugar. If you consider this a 'good' way to get your protein you need to reevaluate.
protein has more usefulness than carbs
Non sensical comment. They have completely different functions. Protein for muscle repair and recovery, carbs for energy.
Pretty tough to get through a workout without any energy. Perhaps you like to wash your Nutrigrain down with a couple of Red Bulls before hitting the gym. lol.
Protein for muscle repair and recovery, carbs for energy.
Close! Protein can also be used for energy, but carbs cannot be used for muscle repair
striving for nutritional accuracy
Just like everyone should be lol
@DiscountForThee: Ok. Thanks. I didn't realise that about protein. Interesting. I retract my previous comment. Clearly you have a good level of nutritional knowledge.
But what I'm still not clear about is whether you are recommending Nutri-Grain as a source of protein to the readers of this thread?
Three years ago Nutri-Grain was 805g and $4.25.
What is it called when you get inflation and shrinkflation?
It could be worse, imagine what they did to the ingredients to cut costs?
If you look at this by ingredient, a box has 46 teaspoons of sugar.
50% sugar
24%. But still terrible.
Looks to be out of stock now.
Anyone have an easy nutri-grain and salted peanut muesli bar recipe?