#Captain crunch nutrition label update#

What we can find in industrial food is often beyond logic. We have to remember that the food industry is not there to help us be heathier but to make money. Just to discover that the preservative used in these cereals caused cancer in rats.When I said that, he just picked up his bowl and went away, hihi… Then, I started looking at the ingredients and preservative/additive. (Don’t worry, I’m not going to say that pizza pockets are healthier, but in that case, for dinner, it would have been a better choice than what he chose, to some extend.) Now if we look at the sodium amount, it’s purely insane….and the fat! 2 Mc Cain’s Deluxe pizza pockets would have been less sodium (1120mg instead of 1616g), less carbs (54g instead of 183g) even the proteins would have been higher (20g instead of 9.6g) but slightly less fiber (4g instead of 5.6g) and a bit more fat (18g). Of course, he would have been filled with a single cup of Mueslix while he almost emptied his box of Captain Crunch just to feel satisfied. If we look at healthier cereals such as Mueslix for example, we are talking of 6.1g of fiber per cup. The main argument that was given to me was: I eat fiber!…really? 0.9g is the actual proportion in -1 cup. It’s, of course, always smaller than the real servings which helps them sell their products and us, think we eat better than we do. A general warning to those who read the labels but not completely: quite often, the ‘serving size’ is not representative of the portion you actually serve yourself. He then told me: “You know, I’ve looked at the nutritional facts and there’s plenty of good things such as vitamins and fiber!”.

#Captain crunch nutrition label update#

Let’s say that each bowls contained almost 2 cups of cereals… When we look at the nutrition facts, it gets scary especially when (like in this picture), we actually update the amount actually consumed. So he got home with that box of Captain Crunch and ate 3 bowls.

Nutrition Facts for 6 cups of Captain Crunch