Friday, June 09, 2006
Good Cookie
Kellogg's new Granola Munch'ems are in the wrong aisle.
You will find boxes of the 1 oz pouches of bite size triangles in the cereal aisle near the granola bars. With just 2 grams of fiber in each 130 calorie pouch, they would not be cereal standouts. But if you moved them to the cookie aisle, they would be stars.
Whole grain oats are the primary ingredient, followed by modest amounts of sugar (9 grams or 2 teaspoons) and vegetable oil. The oil is mostly sunflower with what must be just a smidgen of partially hydrogentated soybean oil, since each pouch as less than 1/2 gram of trans fat and only 1 1/2 grams of sat fat. Kellogg also throws in the usual 10% or so of the same handful of vitamins and minerals that companies typically add to granola and cereal bars.
For a whole grain cookie, Much'ems numbers are top notch. And the portion control pouches should help you keep a lid on the munching.
Do NOT get me wrong. Stuffing a lunch bag with a pouch of granola snacks - with or without whole grains and vitamins- is no substitute for packing an apple, a peach, a small container of baby carrots or strawberries, or a small yogurt. But if it is a bag of Much'ems versus a bag of Oreos, go the granola.
Choose wisely . . . live well.
You will find boxes of the 1 oz pouches of bite size triangles in the cereal aisle near the granola bars. With just 2 grams of fiber in each 130 calorie pouch, they would not be cereal standouts. But if you moved them to the cookie aisle, they would be stars.
Whole grain oats are the primary ingredient, followed by modest amounts of sugar (9 grams or 2 teaspoons) and vegetable oil. The oil is mostly sunflower with what must be just a smidgen of partially hydrogentated soybean oil, since each pouch as less than 1/2 gram of trans fat and only 1 1/2 grams of sat fat. Kellogg also throws in the usual 10% or so of the same handful of vitamins and minerals that companies typically add to granola and cereal bars.
For a whole grain cookie, Much'ems numbers are top notch. And the portion control pouches should help you keep a lid on the munching.
Do NOT get me wrong. Stuffing a lunch bag with a pouch of granola snacks - with or without whole grains and vitamins- is no substitute for packing an apple, a peach, a small container of baby carrots or strawberries, or a small yogurt. But if it is a bag of Much'ems versus a bag of Oreos, go the granola.
Choose wisely . . . live well.
