What’s really in this cereal? Understanding the Nutrition Facts Panel Reese’s Puffs Sodium Serving size Getting too much sodium The serving size of this cereal can cause high blood is only ¾ of a cup. That is a pressure and increase the little smaller than the size of risk for heart disease. Try to an adult fist. If your bowl of eat low sodium foods, which cereal is bigger than that, have 140 mg or less per you will have more calories serving. This cereal has a and sugar than listed here. little more than that, but is not considered a high- sodium food.

Sugar Fiber Be mindful of how much The more fiber in a cereal, sugar is in your cereal. Try the better! This cereal to choose a cereal with 6 only has 1 gram, which is grams or less per serving. not nearly enough- most This cereal would provide 4-8 year olds need 25 2/3 of the recommended grams per day. daily amount for most children, who should have Vitamins & minerals no more than 15 grams of Many cereals are fortified added sugar per day! with vitamins and minerals, meaning the company had to add them in to make this food more Artificial colors nutritious. This cereal is fortified with many Many cereals contain nutrients that would not artificial colors. The FDA otherwise exist in the approves these colors, but ingredients. foods with them are usually highly processed Ingredients: Whole Grain Corn, Sugar, Vitamins and Minerals: Tricalcium and not healthy. Look for Phosphate, Calcium Carbonate, Reese’s® Peanut Butter (peanuts, sugar, Red 40, Blue 1, Yellow 5 monoglycerides, peanut oil, salt, molasses, Zinc and Iron (mineral nutrients), and 6. corn starch), Dextrose, Corn Starch, Corn Vitamin C (sodium ascorbate), Syrup, Rice Bran and/or Canola Oil, Corn B vitamin (niacinamide), Vitamin B (pyridoxine hydrochloride), Meal, Salt, Hershey’s® Cocoa, Red 40, 6 Yellow 5&6, Blue 1, and Other Color Added, Vitamin B2 (riboflavin), Vitamin B1 Trisodium Phosphate, Natural and Artificial (thiamin mononitrate), Vitamin A Flavor. BHT added to preserve freshness. (palmitate), B Vitamin (folic acid), Vitamin B12, Vitamin D3. What’s really in this cereal? Understanding the Nutrition Facts Panel Shredded Wheat Serving size Sodium The serving size of this cereal is only 1 cup. That Getting too much sodium is equivalent to the size can cause high blood of an adult fist. If your pressure and increase the bowl of cereal is bigger risk for heart disease. Try to than that, you will have eat low sodium foods, which more calories and sugar have 140 mg or less per than listed here. serving. Shredded Wheat actually contains none at all!

Sugar Be mindful of how much Fiber sugar is in children’s The more fiber in a cereal, cereals. Try to choose a the better! This cereal is cereal with as little sugar as very healthy with 6 grams possible. Most children of fiber. That is about ¼ of should have no more than the fiber a child needs in a 15 grams of added sugar day. per day. This cereal is an excellent choice because it has 0 grams of sugar. Vitamins & minerals Many cereals are fortified with vitamins and minerals, meaning the company adds them in to Few ingredients make the product seem Shredded Wheat healthier. All of the contains just one main nutrients in this cereal are ingredient: wheat. naturally found in wheat. There are no artificial Ingredients: Whole Grain Wheat. To colors or sweeteners preserve the natural wheat flavor, BHT added to this cereal. is added to the packaging material. Some preservative (BHT) is added to the packaging. Cereals with fewer ingredients are often less processed and healthier.