Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline

Re:Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline by ilyt on Sunday September 17, 2023 @07:42AM (#37543979)

> Edit: Here's a list of cereals and their nutritional info: https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-maga... Note that at the recommended serving size, obviously some are more healthy than others, but frankly none of them are really going to kill you. A serving of cereal is only about 100-250 calories. The problem arises when you eat multiple servings in one sitting.

As in... eating normal sized breakfast ? Ain't nobody bothering to get the milk out of the fridge for 250 calories breakfast.

It looks like marketing move to look better tbh

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Re:Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline by safety1st on Sunday September 17, 2023 @10:06AM (#37545208)

2 eggs, 1 serving of cereal with milk, some fruit, black coffee. Boom, a balanced breakfast that includes cereal. You're welcome.

Now obviously telling someone to eat sugary cereal isn't good health advice. But even if you opted for one of the less healthy cereals in my link - frosted cornflakes - one serving only has 11g sugar, 13% of your daily allowance. Not really going to kill you.

Sit down and eat three servings of frosted flakes in one go and yeah you'll slowly kill yourself.

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Re:Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline by astura on Sunday September 17, 2023 @11:00AM (#37545719)

If you're going through the trouble of making eggs you aren't going to bother with cereal - cereal is a convenience food.

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Re:Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline by safety1st on Sunday September 17, 2023 @11:36PM (#37551940)

There are so many weird takes in this discussion. Obviously what you have said here is untrue, maybe it is your preference but of course it is not universal. Many people make eggs for breakfast and eat them with a single serving of cereal. I'm one of them.

There's very little difficulty in making eggs, two of them in a frying pan, wait, flip, done...

The other weird take was the people who kept saying "cereal" only refers to cereals that are high in sugar. The statement makes zero sense on its face, cereals with sugar are grammatically a subset of cereals...

Cereal in fact refers to a type of grass! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cereal But the topic here (literally in the headline) is breakfast cereals, some of those have added sugar, some of which don't.

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