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"Now filled with great tasting yogurt filling!" says the box of Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Blueberry Yogurt Noun 1. blueberry yogurt - yogurt with sweetened blueberries or blueberry jam
yoghourt, yoghurt, yogurt - a custard-like food made from curdled milk
 Bars. One look at those plump blueberries splashing into a puddle of yogurt and you might expect a mouthful of blueberries and yogurt. You should be so lucky.

Take a peek at the ingredient list (reading glasses mandatory). The filling has more sugar (three teaspoons), partially hydrogenated cottonseed cottonseed

seed of the cotton plant. Made into cake after oil extraction and used as feed for livestock.


cottonseed cake
or meal contains gossypol and causes hepatitis and degeneration of cardiac muscle.
 and soybean oil (three grams), and natural and artificial flavor (we're guessing less than a gram) than blueberries. Then comes yogurt ... or, to be more precise, nonfat nonĀ·fat
adj.
Lacking fat solids or having the fat content removed.
 yogurt powder that's been heat-treated--that means it has none of the "active cultures" that make yogurt yogurt.

Just how do the Blueberry blueberry, plant of the large genus Vaccinium, widely distributed shrubs (occasionally small trees) of the family Ericaceae (heath family), usually found on acid soil. They are often confused with the related huckleberry.  (or equally bad Strawberry or Vanilla) "calcium-rich cereal bars with yogurt filling provide smart nutrition for those on the go"? Kellogg's adds calcium and vitamins. The "grain" in Nutri-Grain is largely white flour, which is why each bar has just a single gram of fiber.

Yes, the bar meets the American Heart Association's criteria for being low in saturated fat saturated fat, any solid fat that is an ester of glycerol and a saturated fatty acid. The molecules of a saturated fat have only single bonds between carbon atoms; if double bonds are present in the fatty acid portion of the molecule, the fat is said to be  and cholesterol. (The AHA's name and the check mark in the red heart on the side of the box can't be bad for sales.) Then again, you'd expect a slab of white flour, sugar, vitamins, and additives to be low in fat. But that doesn't make it healthy.

Kellogg's: (800) 962-1516.
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Title Annotation:Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Blueberry Yogurt Bars.
Publication:Nutrition Action Healthletter
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Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jun 1, 2003
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