Porridge is our top choice for a heart healthy breakfast – when it is made with low-fat milk or water and unsweetened. All porridge oats are wholegrains and they all contain a soluble fibre called beta-glucan, which can help lower your cholesterol level if you have 3g or more of it daily, as part of a healthy diet.
Your diet needs to be rich in wholemeal or wholewheat bread, brown rice, wholemeal pasta, oat biscuits and wholegrain cereals such as Weetabix and Shredded Wheat. Porridge is good, especially if you add high-fibre and laxative seeds such as flax, hemp, sesame, pumpkin.
High-fibre breakfast cereals like a 2 biscuit serving of Weetabix (3.8g of fibre), a 64 gram serving of porridge oats (9g of fibre) or a 52 gram serving of Shredded Wheat (6g of fibre) will give you a chunk of the fibre you need to be hitting that 30-gram goal.
Oatibix is also very high in fibre at 8.8g of fibre per 100g of cereal. This is 1.2g less than you'll find in Weetabix per 100g, but it's still a significant amount. And lastly, the real standout nutritional aspect of Oatibix is the protein content - the cereal contains 12g of protein per 100g.
Weetabix is fortified with certain vitamins and minerals and if eaten to excess, then you could be taking in too much of these nutrients. We would recommend that an adult eats no more than four (4) Weetabix biscuits per day.
As the name might suggest Weetabix contains wheat and some people do find this causes bloating. However, reacting to wheat does not mean that you're intolerant to gluten and must give up everything containing it – that might not be the case.
At Healthy Food Guide, we have no problem with people – children and adults alike – eating Weet-Bix as part of a balanced diet. As breakfast cereals go, Weet-Bix is low in sugars, sodium and saturated fat, while being high in fibre. To make a balanced breakfast, we'd recommend adding skim/trim milk.
New research suggests that calorie-for-calorie, a serving of porridge is more filling than a bowl of oat-based cereal. The researchers, who published their findings in the Nutrition Journal, found that eating porridge for breakfast is more satisfying helps manage hunger better than cereal.
Alternatively, porridge is also high in fibre at around 9g for half a cup of oats.
Porridge and Weetabix contain up to 10 times more fibre and just a fraction of the salt and sugar in other best-sellers. Weetabix and other wheat biscuits have the best fibre content at 10g per 100g - which means you'd get nearly 4g, or 16pc of your recommended daily fibre intake, from a typical serving of two.
Porridge is a good source of fibre
It is also a very rich source of soluble fibre, which acts as a catalyst in the process of digestion. Low-fibre foods are one of the common reasons for constipation and indigestion, and therefore, porridge helps to solve that problem.
Oats can be a fantastic gut-friendly food as part of a healthy, varied diet. Here are four of their digestion-boosting benefits. Most simple of all, the high fibre content of oats helps us have regular and healthy bowel movements.
Are Weetabix good for Losing Weight? If you're trying to lose a little bit of belly fat, Weetabix could be a good way to start the day. They are low in sugar and fat, yet high in energy, and will keep you full for longer.
Foods that help ease constipation
Consider adding some the following fibre-rich foods to your diet to help ease constipation: High fibre cereals such as: bran flakes, Weetabix, porridge, muesli and shredded wheat.
Weetabix
Although it might have a higher sugar content than other cereals, it's got the lowest fat, saturated fat and salt score. Weetabix also has lower calories than other cereals, scoring well for the amount of calories per 100g - that's almost half that of the worst overall cereal.
Weetabix is an ideal food from a healthy eating point of view as it is low in fat, high in fibre and low in sugar. It provides an excellent breakfast and an ideal snack any time of the day, including bedtime. However, balance is the key, and you can have too much of a good thing.
It's not always clear what is processed and what is not. Weetabix, for example, contains malted barley extract, which is often used as a way of adding sugar by stealth, but it is considered processed rather than unprocessed.
Weetabix Banana flavour is a nutritious* 100% wholegrain breakfast cereal that's high in fibre. A great way to make your mornings tastier than ever!
Porridge is a healthy, nutritious way to start the day. However, there is much debate about which oats are the best to use and which cooking method is healthiest. There are many varieties of porridge oats, including rolled, quick and instant.
Staying Power. The peanut butter toast breakfast has more fat—about 16.5 grams of mostly heart-healthy monounsaturated fat, per the USDA. By contrast, the cereal breakfast has just 4 g of fat (with the cereal and milk combined, per the USDA). It's the fat that helps give the breakfast staying power.
For optimal health and weight control, the American Heart Association recommends a limit of 20 grams of sugar per day for women and 36 grams for men. Cereal for breakfast pushes you near or over the daily limit. Most nutritionists now recommend eggs as a great way to start your day.