Wheaties Fuel = Wheaties FAIL

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Published on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:50:33 GMT Indexed on 2010/03/11 4:40 UTC
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Are you kidding me? What a load of nutritional CRAP. Don’t buy this product. Just don’t do it.

They are just like Wheaties with more sugar and fat. Awesome just what we need more sugar!! Okay now I’m not against carbs… I’m really not. Being a cyclist I realize the importance of carbohydrates in the diet… but let’s be realistic here. Even though the commercials for Wheaties Fuel say they are for athletes you know that what General Mills is really hoping for is that kids will see Payton Manning, Albert Pujols and KG and buy this cereal and eat a ton of it for breakfast. Sad, really.

I’ve watched all the videos and read all the propaganda on the Wheaties Fuel web site and no where do they talk about why they added sugar and fat the original Wheaties. There is a lot of double-speak by Dr. Ivy about “understanding the needs of athletes.” I had to laugh – in one of the videos Dr. Ivy even says that he thinks the "new Wheaties will have even more fiber! Wrong! My bad... there is 5g of fiber not 3g per serving. Just  Way more sugar. A serving of FROSTED FLAKES has less sugar per serving!!!

  Wheaties
Fuel
Wheaties Frosted
Flakes
Honey Nut
Cheerios
Quaker
Oatmeal
Serving Size 3/4 cup 3/4 cup 3/4 cup 3/4 cup 3/4 cup
Calories 210 100 110 110 225
Fat 3g .5g 0g 1.5g 4.5g
Protein 3g 3g 1g 2g 7.5g
Carbohydrates 46g 22g 27g 22g 40.5g
Sugars 14g 4g 11g 9g 1.5g
Fiber 5g 3g 1g 2g 6g

 

In reality it might not be a bad pre-workout meal but for a normal day-in-day-out breakfast is just seems to have too much sugar - especially when you bump the serving size up to 1 to 1.5 cups and add milk!

I’ll stick with Oatmeal, thank you very much.

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