Are you kidding me? What a load of nutritional CRAP. Don’t buy this product. Just don’t do it.
They are just like Wheaties with more sugar and fat. Awesome just what we need more sugar!! Okay now I’m not against carbs… I’m really not. Being a cyclist I realize the importance of carbohydrates in the diet… but let’s be realistic here. Even though the commercials for Wheaties Fuel say they are for athletes you know that what General Mills is really hoping for is that kids will see Payton Manning, Albert Pujols and KG and buy this cereal and eat a ton of it for breakfast. Sad, really.
I’ve watched all the videos and read all the propaganda on the Wheaties Fuel web site and no where do they talk about why they added sugar and fat the original Wheaties. There is a lot of double-speak by Dr. Ivy about “understanding the needs of athletes.” I had to laugh – in one of the videos Dr. Ivy even says that he thinks the "new Wheaties will have even more fiber! Wrong! My bad... there is 5g of fiber not 3g per serving. Just Way more sugar. A serving of FROSTED FLAKES has less sugar per serving!!!
Wheaties
Fuel
Wheaties
Frosted
Flakes
Honey Nut
Cheerios
Quaker
Oatmeal
Serving Size
3/4 cup
3/4 cup
3/4 cup
3/4 cup
3/4 cup
Calories
210
100
110
110
225
Fat
3g
.5g
0g
1.5g
4.5g
Protein
3g
3g
1g
2g
7.5g
Carbohydrates
46g
22g
27g
22g
40.5g
Sugars
14g
4g
11g
9g
1.5g
Fiber
5g
3g
1g
2g
6g
In reality it might not be a bad pre-workout meal but for a normal day-in-day-out breakfast is just seems to have too much sugar - especially when you bump the serving size up to 1 to 1.5 cups and add milk!
I’ll stick with Oatmeal, thank you very much.
