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Weet-Bix Bites – Wild Berry | Chewsday Review

Weet-Bix are a pantry staple in this household, and I used to like Weet-Bix Go Mini’s for a snack before they were discontinued. Let’s see how another sibling, Weet-Bix Bites, stack up against the rest of the Weet-bix family.

Ingredients Ingredients
  • Wholegrain wheat (68%), sugar, invert sugar, humectant (glycerol), berry purees (3%) (strawberry, blackcurrant, raspberry, blueberry), honey, salt, wheat fibre, flavours, barley malt extract, gelling agent (pectin), acid (malic, citric), vitamins (niacin, thiamin, riboflavin, folate), mineral (iron).
  • About two thirds of this is wholegrain wheat, but the second and third ingredients are added sugar.
  • Fortified with several B vitamins, folate and iron.
  • For a wild berry flavour, it’s disappointing to see these are only 3% fruit puree.
  • Allergens: Wheat (Gluten)
  • May contain: Lupin
Positives Positives
  • Added iron! One serving (45 g) provides 3 mg of iron, which is about a third of recommended daily intake for toddlers and children (aged 1-4, and 4-13), and the same as 2 regular Weet-Bix.
  • There is 3.8 g of fibre per serve, which similar to regular Weet-Bix. This comes to almost 30% of a toddler’s, roughly 20% of a young child’s (4-8 years) daily fibre target.
  • Within guidelines for sodium, and total and saturated fat.
Negatives Negatives

Sugar is above recommendations at 21.8 g per 100 g. This is much more than regular Weet-Bix (3.0 g/ 100g) and more than low sugar Cheerios (4.1 g/ 100g) and original Cheerios (14.6 g/ 100g), but still much less than Coco Pops (32.3 g/ 100g) and Froot Loops (38.8 g/ 100g). The Weet-Bix Bites do contain fruit, but only 3% berry puree so most of this is coming from the added sugars

Marketing Marketing
  • “68% Wholegrains”. True, but regular Weet-Bix are 97% wholegrains.
  • “Bite-sized Weet-bix”. I mean… not strictly true. They are pretty similar in terms of fibre and iron content, but much higher in added sugar.
  • “Fills you up!” This obviously depends on how much you eat and how hungry you are, but the fibre will help.
Alternatives Alternatives
  • I don’t love these as a regular brekkie cereal, mostly because of the higher added sugar levels. My go-to’s are still Weet-Bix or oats, but these could be crushed slightly and used as breakfast sprinkles to add excitement.
  • I like these for their iron and fibre content, and they make a decent lunchbox snack compared to many other packaged snacks. The added iron is especially good for kids who aren’t keen on typical iron foods like meats, legumes and nuts.

The composition of food products changes regularly. The nutritional values of the products in this Chewsday Review were correct at the time of publishing.

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