Breakfast mixes ready mixes often contain too much sugar

Finished puff pastries often contain a lot of sugar
Not only in the cold season, a warm breakfast buffet strength for the day. With the appropriate ingredients, it is a contribution to a healthy diet. However, those who resort to ready-mixes here should be careful: they often contain a lot of sugar.
Warm cereal porridge with a beneficial effect
While in this country long years bread with butter and jam or other spreads were part of a typical breakfast, in other countries, the warm morning meal, including in the form of porridge, held. Meanwhile, for more and more Germans a warm cereal porridge is part of a healthy breakfast. Especially in the cold season, it ensures a warm and cozy feeling after eating. Stressed and older people appreciate the porridge because of the beneficial effects on the stomach and intestines, reports the Baden-Württemberg information service agriculture-nutrition-rural area. That's why many like to take the few minutes of preparation time into account.

Breakfast often with too much sugar. Image: Heike Rau - fotolia

An integral part of the nutritional recommendation
The food industry has long since discovered the new breakfast trend. In the meantime, pre-packaged breakfast mixes in all variations can be found in the supermarket shelves. Some mixtures only have to be boiled or boiled with hot water and then ready for consumption. According to the experts, the market for breakfast breaks has been growing at an annual double-digit rate since 2011. Trends such as Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine are increasing the demand for such porridge offerings, as a hot breakfast has always been an integral part of nutritional recommendations in these health care systems.

Breakfast buffet just made by yourself
If consumers are using pre-mixes, they should look closely at the list of ingredients, as with cereals or other supposedly healthy products. As the Baden-Württemberg consumer protection explained, often put in the mixtures relatively high in sugar. Sometimes also sugar substitutes and flavorings in ready mixes are included. It is therefore recommended to make his own porridge. Then you can choose every day, which ingredients come on the plate. The preparation is not a big effort. To the basic mass of grain and milk you can, for example, fruits such as bananas or apples and spices such as cinnamon. Various recipes for porridge can also be found on the Internet. (Ad)