Post Grape-Nuts

Good Evening! 

I hope everyone is doing well today. It seems to be all about the Fiber these days and as an Eating Coach I do seem to push fiber and protein for my clients because it fills you up and keeps you going longer.  The problem is the fiber comes in all sorts of things now and they are not all created equally.  The people at Post Cereal sent me an awesome hands-on demonstration of how there is "real" fiber-- Whole Grain Wheat, Whole Grain Wheat Flour and Wheat Bran versus "artificially" added fiber that seems to be going into just about any product these days which would be labeled Maltodextrin and Polydextrose. 

One of the many tips that I am trying to teach my clients and enforce in my own household (which proves to be difficult with kids) is to eat whole foods and not processed food.  I am teaching my kids to read labels and we strive to eat things with 5 ingredients or less on packaged items and strongly encourage things with one item, such as, apple, banana, carrot.... you get the point.

I actually pulled out these little labeled containers and asked my kids which they would rather put in their bodies-- Whole Grain Wheat, Wheat Bran and Whole Grain Wheat Flour or these white powders-- Maltodextrin and Polydextrose?  Luckily, they actually said they wanted to eat the whole grains and not the white powder!  You never know with kids.