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Arnold’s Farm Little Farmers Honey Granola | Chewsday Review

Who else has a child just a bit over eating the same brekkie cereals? Oats and Weet-Bix are really the only two that get my stamp of approval (especially after they discontinued the low-sugar Cheerios ) So I had a little look at the Arnold’s Farm Little Farmers Honey Granola specifically for kids- here’s what I think in today’s Chewsday Review.

Ingredients

Positives

Low saturated fat content, well within healthy guidelines.
High fibre content of 4.2g per serve. This is significantly more than many other ‘kid’ cereals. One 30g serve would meet about 30% of a toddler’s fibre requirements and 23% of an older child’s requirements.
Reasonably low sodium (salt) content at 125mg/100g. This is lower than lots of breakfast cereals (for example cornflakes is high at 485mg/100g.
The sugar content technically scrapes into my guidelines at 14.6g/100g but it’s all from added sugars (as opposed to some cereal that have sugar occurring naturally in fruit). It’s not ‘high’ compared to Freedom Foods XO Crunch (22.2g/100g) or Coco Pops (36.5g/100g). A serve of this (which is only a very small amount anyway) would give you 1.5 tsp of added sugar. Compared to some other cereals this is a positive, but it wouldn’t cut it for me as an everyday cereal.

Negatives

Marketing

Alternatives

Good fibre and mostly allergy-friendly content, but moderate sugar content and no iron. These have a similar sugar content to Cheerios, less salt and more fibre but Cheerios have added iron.
I’d prefer Weet-Bix (kids or regular) or oats. If you’re buying it as a special ‘on holidays’ cereal then it’s a much better option than most others. You could also use this cereal mixed with oats or crumbled weet-bix for variety, or as part of a trail mix snack.