Cereal

New lesson today-cereal all have about similar ranges of calories per serving, it's just their sugars that are vastly different. I guess in that sense then, the sugars are a big deal.

In advisory today when we were eating our cereal with milk, of course my advisor comes in with boxes of cereal like fruity pebbles, cap'n crunch, and raisinbran, intending the raisin bran for me of course. Why he decided to choose the least delicious cereal for me I am unsure. Yet he pointed out to me that they held similar calorie count which was very interesting to me at the time.

I realize though that the reason is probably because all cereals are made up of similar base ingredients, they all start with that neutral taste. Then, from there, while cheerios (my favorite of course) keeps its delicious original flavor, other cereals such as trix, cocoa pebbles, and cinnamon toast crunch start adding the artificial coloring, extra sugar and flavoring to make it more unique. For example, in one bowl of cheerios there are 110 calories and only 1gram of sugar in comparison to a bowl of cinnamon toast crunch which has 134 calories per bowl (a few more) and 10grams of sugar. While I do appreciate those cereals at times, cheerios is my comfort food. my go-back-to cereal. I think simplicity is sometimes the best thing you can have in life. And for me, it comes in the form of cereal.

ps. the video isn't entirely educational at all but it brought a smile to my face :)