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Kellogg's new Granola Munch'ems are in the wrong aisle.

You'll find boxes of the one-ounce pouches of bite-size triangles in the cereal aisle near the granola bars. With just 2 grams of fiber in each 130-calorie pouch, they wouldn't be cereal standouts. But if you moved them to the cookie aisle, they'd be stars.

Whole-grain oats oats, cereal plants of the genus Avena of the family Gramineae (grass family). Most species are annuals of moist temperate regions. The early history of oats is obscure, but domestication is considered to be recent compared to that of the other  are the primary ingredient, followed by modest amounts of sugar (9 grams, or 2 teaspoons) and vegetable oil. (The oil is mostly sunflower with what must be just a smidgen of partially hydrogenated soybean oil Soy´bean oil   

n. 1. an oil obtained from the soybean (Glycine max), rich in protein, fats, sterols, and phospholipids, used as a food and in paints and varnishes and in various industrial applications; -
, since each pouch has less than 1/2 gram of trans fat trans fat  
n.
1. A trans fatty acid.

2. Trans fatty acids considered as a group.



trans fat  

A fat containing trans fatty acids.
 and only 1 1/2 grams of 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 .) Kellogg also throws in the usual 10% or so of the same handful of vitamins and minerals that companies typically add to granola and cereal bars.

For a whole-grain cookie, Munch'ems' numbers are top notch. And the portion-control pouches should help you keep a lid on the munching munching - Exploration of security holes of someone else's computer for thrills, notoriety or to annoy the system manager. Compare cracker. See also hacked off. .

Don't get us wrong. Stuffing a lunch bag with a pouch of granola snacks--with or without whole grains and vitamins is no substitute for packing an apple, a peach, a small container of baby carrots or strawberries, or a small yogurt.

But if it's a bag of Munch'ems versus a bag of Oreos, go with the granola.

Kellogg's: (800) 962-1413

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Title Annotation:RIGHT STUFF; Kellogg's Granola Munch'ems
Publication:Nutrition Action Healthletter
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Date:Jun 1, 2006
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