Trading Up Downtown

I’ve always loved Post Raisin Bran cereal with its light, fragile flakes and sugar-coated raisins. What’s not to like about it? Plus, I thought eating bran cereal was good for me. Little did I know…

It turns out that my beloved Post Raisin Bran only scores a 26 on the NuVal scale– not as nutritious as I thought. But, the cool thing about NuVal is that you can compare scores across categories (like cereal) to find the most nutrition choices.

Here’s how a number of bran cereals score on the NuVal scale:

• Shredded Wheat Wheat’N Bran Cereal: 91
• Kellogg’s All – Bran Extra Fiber Natural Wheat Bran High Fiber Cereal: 76
• Kellogg’s All – Bran Original Natural Wheat Bran High Fiber Cereal: 54
• Newman’s Sweet Enough Honey Flax Flakes with Wheat Bran Cereal: 40
• Nature’s Path Organic Flax Plus Multibran Cereal: 38
• Nature’s Path Organic Smart Bran with Psyllium and Oat Bran Cereal: 35
• Kellogg’s All – Bran Strawberry Medley Crunchy Bran Flakes & Squares Cereal: 32
• Nature’s Path Organic Flax Plus Raisin Bran Cereal: 29
• Total Raisin Bran Cereal: 29
• Post Bran Flakes Whole Grain Wheat Cereal: 28
• Fiber One Raisin Bran Clusters – Lightly Sweetened Wheat & Bran Flakes: 27
• Post Raisin Bran Cereal: 26
• Cascadian Farm’s Organic Raisin Bran Cereal: 26
• General Mills Raisin Nut Bran Cereals: 20

As you can see, the Post Raisin Bran Cereal scores toward the bottom of the pack. It looks like there is a trade-up in my future!

What product have you traded up recently?

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