Is this OK to eat?

[Carina1962]

Today I bought a box of Kelloggs Fibre Plus cereal bars and this is the nutritional information:

Per 100g
Protein 5g
Carbs 56g (of which sugars 22g)
Fat 13hg
Fibre 18g

Per 28g bar
Protein 1.5g
Carbs 16g (of which sugars 6g)
Fat 3.5g
Fibre 5g

What I want to know is do I base this product as being OK to eat on the 100g reading or the per bar reading? Obviously, the 100g reading is higher in sugars but i will only be eating a bar at a time.

 

[Pumper_Sue]

Today I bought a box of Kelloggs Fibre Plus cereal bars and this is the nutritional information:

Per 100g
Protein 5g
Carbs 56g (of which sugars 22g)
Fat 13hg
Fibre 18g

Per 28g bar
Protein 1.5g
Carbs 16g (of which sugars 6g)
Fat 3.5g
Fibre 5g

What I want to know is do I base this product as being OK to eat on the 100g reading or the per bar reading? Obviously, the 100g reading is higher in sugars but i will only be eating a bar at a time.

This is just a personal opinion but as far as I am concerned no it isn't ok to eat, except as an odd treat if you like that sort of thing. Cereal bars are well known to cause very high blood sugars in a lot of people.

I would go on the per 100gms for making the choice

 

[KateXXXXXX]

We use them as a hypo-stopper!

 

[Northerner]

It would depend why you are eating it. Personally, I would use the 100g value when I was browsing in the shop so I could compare and get the best one i.e. lowest sugars per 100g so carbs are more slow-acting. I would use the per bar number to decide how much to inject for it.

A lot of people have a cereal bar during a period of sustained activity or exercise to stop levels from falling too low, plus it's also a good follow up after a hypo once you have treated the hypo with some faster-acting sugar 🙂

 

[Doghouse]

As Northerner says, it depends on why you are eating it. I would have one before going out on the bike, or to start off a day in Snowdonia. Depending on level of activity, I would expect it to run out after about 1 to 1.5 hours. As a between-meal snack, I would only eat 10g carbs at a time, depending on how thing are.