Whole Grain First Ingredient - General Mills Review

If you’re like me then the New Year typically means you resolve get healthy and create good eating habits in your family’s diet. Therefore, you would carefully choose products with more whole grains, whether that’s bread, crackers or cereal. Whole grains tend to give me that Full feeling without eat so much and it helps limit my snacking habits.

We know whole grain is important to you, and the Dietary Guidelines recommend choosing products with a whole grain listed as the first ingredient. Now every cereal with the white check has more whole grain than any other single ingredient with the same great taste. You will see “whole grain” as a part of the first ingredient on the ingredient list, indicating that whole grain is the first and most prevalent ingredient.

According to Dr. Travis Stork, emergency room physician and host of “The Doctors,” identifying whole grain products can be challenging. Shoppers can look for nutritional cues on the front of the box, but they need to read the ingredient list to know if they are getting enough whole grain.
With all the health messages facing grocery store shoppers, it can be confusing to translate what appears on food labels into nutritional needs, and hard to determine which foods have a meaningful amount of whole grain. Dr. Stork has some additional recommendations to help you include whole grain easily into your diet. They include:

• Start Early! Dietary Guidelines suggest a minimum of 48 grams of whole grain a day. Start early and get your whole grains in at breakfast.

• Make Simple Swaps. Bread and pasta can be purchased in whole wheat varieties. Crackers can be swapped out with those made mostly with whole grains, and brown rice can be made instead of white rice. Popcorn is a great whole grain snack.

• Don’t Judge a Food by Its Cover. Read the ingredients on the products you buy, and don’t just rely on the front packaging. Check the side labels and the nutrition labels for more information.

Make a commitment to add more whole grain to your diet by simply pouring a bowl of cereal with the white check including Cheerios®, Lucky Charms®, Cinnamon Toast Crunch®, Honey Nut Cheerios® and Total®.

In order to help you to choose products with whole grain, General Mills introduced “Fast Lane for Whole Grain,” an educational game online. You can go down virtual store food aisles and learn how to find products that have whole grain as the primary ingredient. There is also a sweepstakes you can enter to win one of each of the fifty cereals with the “white check”.

For additional information on why we should have whole grain in our diets and to play and enter “Fast Lane for Whole Grain” visit www.WholeGrainNation.com.

In lieu of hosting a giveaway I've decided to make a healthy contribution to my local food pantry. I will donate at total of eight boxes of General Mills cereals to local family's in need. (Five from MyBlogSpark and three from my portion of review samples) Hoping this small contribution will help kick start healthy eating habits for those family's. Thank you! Thank you MyBlogSpark for making this healthy donation possible.

Disclosure: The prize pack, information, and donation have been provided by General Mills through MyBlogSpark.