Enriched Breakfast Cereal...

Why??? Why can't I just have an un-enriched breakfast cereal that I can munch on all day long without thinking about the overtly amount of unneeded nutrients I'm digesting when I eat more than 1 and 1/3 cups of Malt-O-Meal Honey Buzzers?

What are you views on enriched cereal and other 'vitamin enriched' foodstuffs?

Is it really needed? Do you find that enriching food with vitamins that weren't there to begin with to be odd and possibly harmful?

I understand that the daily value of 100% is a bit lower than the amount that's deemed potentially harmful, but still... What happens when I unknowingly eat something that contains a high amount of the same nutrients I ate earlier, pushing me way over the daily recommended value?

I can't even count the times I sat around with a box or one of those giant bags of cereal just munching away at least 4 servings at a time.

What do I make of this??

 

true ..

I would get sick from eating Special K and Im thinking wtf, it has all these vitamins in there I should be feeling like superman ..

Then it dawned on me, oh Im having a vitamin overdose..

 

Not to mention the boatloads of sugar they cram in all the 'good' cereal. SuperValu Marshmallow Stars... why do you hurt me?

 

You will excrete it in your urine usually. Too much fat soluble vitamins without adequate fat intake could be a problem but I think most things with added vitamins are water soluble.

I think the added vitamins to everything is ridiculous though.

Edit to add....don't eat cereal, pancakes for the win

 

Most nutrient-enriched cereals (and cereals in general) aren't quite a health food. There are some exceptions, although not for the paleo or other carb-o-phobes among us.

Seems like most "natural" or organic cereals are un-enriched. Maybe start in that aisle .

 

There's an aisle for that? Maybe 1/8th of a shelf here! And the mark-ups... ridiculous.

Love me some oats. Though I cheat and use the quick oats. I stopped buying the individual pouches in a box years ago. Just make your own instant oats! Add a dash of brown sugar (if you want) berries (all sorts of berries), fruit, syrup, etc etc etc. And you can have as much or as little as you want. Runny or firm texture. Gotta love it. I think I overdo it with the sweets in the morning. And all day long.

handful and a half of blueberries, few cranberries, a tsp of brown sugar, cinnamon, honey. Sure, I'll add some oats. Why not?

 

I eat some generic Os and rice cheks. only 20% daily .. you can gorge on this shit.
some minerals and vitamins body can take an overload but not all..