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Yogurt Burst Cheerios
There are quite a few varieties of Cheerios around including the original, Apple Cinnamon, Berry Burst, Frosted, Honey Nut, Team Cheerios, and now Yogurt Burst - nine varieties in all, since some types have different flavors. Cheerios and General Mills - I am a bit upset with you! Why is the serving size for some Cheerios 1 cup and for others, it's 3/4 cup? I don't like this - it smacks of trying to trick the consumer. For example, Berry Burst Strawberry, Team Cheerios, Regular Cheerios and MultiGrain Cheerios: serving size, 1 cup, 110 calories. BUT Honey Nut Cheerios: serving size 3/4 cup, 110 calories - which is 147 calories in 1 cup. Apple Cinnamon Cheerios and Yogurt Burst: serving size, 3/4 cup, 120 calories - but really it's 160 calories for 1 cup. And that's without milk. Is it just so you can keep the calorie count below 120? What's the deal? Why?
But back to reviewing Yogurt Burst Cheerios. Let me make this clear up front, this is a box of Cheerios, and some cheerios coated with yogurt flavor. Don't expect to find yogurt in the box somewhere. In addition to 160 calories in 1 cup of Yogurt Burst cereal, there are 15 grams of sugar, and approximately 3 grams of fiber. Don't forget to add about 40 calories for 1/2 cup of skim milk.
Overall, the Good: tastes good, made from whole grain and almost 10% of your daily dose of fiber. The Bad: I could do with a little less gimmick/trickery in terms of the serving size, and some people may not like getting 200 calories from a bowl of cereal with milk, but I'm okay with it.
Registered Dietitian Karen Kelly gave this a rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars. She did not like the fact that "sugar as an ingredient in the cereal moves up from the 4th ingredient to the 2nd ingredient in the yogurt version ... jumping from 1 gram to 11 grams" (read her review). And over at the Message Whore, LordJeezo looked at the number of yogurt cheerios compared to regular cheerios in the box, and he did not liked the small proportion, but he still gave this cereal 3.5/4 cheeses (read his review).
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Cheerios are good! Cheerios are great!
I like this kind ;-)
I think the serving size is based on weight- aren't they all for 1 oz of cereal?