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Yogurt nonsense.


"Whole Grain Flakes with a Naturally-Flavored Yogurt Coating!" exclaims the Vanilla Yogurt Total box.

Cereal dipped in yogurt? Only if you define yogurt as a mixture of sugar, palm kernel oil, dextrose dextrose: see glucose.  (a form of sugar), dried nonfat yogurt, and natural flavor. The cereal is an "excellent source of calcium" not because of yogurt, but because of added calcium carbonate.

Fruit & Yogurt Special K, Yogurt Burst Cheerios Yogurt Burst Cheerios is a brand of breakfast cereal by the General Mills cereal company that is nearly the same as the original Cheerios, but has some cereal pieces which are coated with 100% yogurt. , All-Bran Yogurt Bites, and Vanilla Yogurt Crunch Life are also short on yogurt. (Yogurt powder is typically heat-treated, which kills any beneficial bacteria.) Of course, phantom ingredients are nothing new in the cereal aisle. Special K's "berry oat oat

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Note to Total eaters: like many NEW! versions of old cereals, Vanilla Yogurt Total has too much sugar to get a Best Bite. And if you eat a daily bowl of any kind of Total ("100% Daily Value of 12 VITAMINS & MINERALS") instead of taking a multivitamin mul·ti·vi·ta·min
adj.
Containing many vitamins.

n.
A preparation containing many vitamins.


multivitamin 
, you could end up with too little vitamin D, copper, selenium selenium (səlē`nēəm), nonmetallic chemical element; symbol Se; at. no. 34; at. wt. 78.96; m.p. 217°C;; b.p. about 685°C;; sp. gr. 4.81 at 20°C;; valence −2, +4, or +6. , or chromium.
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Publication:Nutrition Action Healthletter
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Date:Apr 1, 2006
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