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Is McDonald's new 'Fruit and Maple Oatmeal' as cheap and healthy as old-school oats? MNN investigates.
Fri, Mar 25 2011 at 1:50 PM
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My God,leave it to McDs to make even oats junk food
Better check your sources. The comparison for saturated fat is not correct. The Kiddie Cone, which is not the one pictured, (http://www.mcdonalds.com/content/dam/McDonalds/item/mcdonalds-Kiddie-Con...) has 1g of saturated fat and the fruit and nut oatmeal has only 2g of saturated fat. There's a big difference between fat and saturated fat, I think you have confused the two. This graphic is wrong and very misleading!
A picture perfectly depicted with more than 1000 words. Bravo. Well done.
.25 ( 1/4 cup) of the mccanns ots,and.5(1/2 cup) of the quaker ots but 1.15 (1.1/8 cup)of McD oats.is what is on the report.it may be the serving size,but not the same amount of oats used! do the math mccanns has 600 cals a cup,quaker has 380 a cup McDs has about 275 cals a cup
No. I don't know what is in Mcs oatmeal, but if I'm interested I'm more than capable of finding out for myself! Making information available seems to be laudable, but as in all cases government oversteps , wanting to force all people to defer to progressive ideology!
If you're not interested, don't read it. Some of us appreciate the research that is provided by sites like this.
Oatmeal is disgusting.
All sugars are not created equal and the refined sugar content is outrageous. Make your yummy oats at home and try adding some honey instead of sugar...What's the difference you ask? Here is an article to help http://bit.ly/qzej6o
Interesting breakfast option. I assume it tastes better than the plain oatmeal...or at least I hope it does!
Check out the review on Mcdees new banana nut oatmeal at fattiesreviews.blogspot.com
I make an oatmeal shake by blending skim milk,oatmeal,banana.Its delicious and I don't have to wait for it to cool.Hot oatmeal tends to make me puffy so this is an alternative for me. Sometimes I throw in activia to really settle my stomach. Instant oatmeal has too high a sodium content. Don't feel you have to buy a name brand oatmeal.El cheapo is just as good. Sometimes I can't be bothered with cooking dinner..Guess what ? a bowl of oatmeal fills in for dinner.
The bottom line: homemade oatmeal is better for the body. Mix rolled oats with water and Voila! you have breakfast. It's inane that McDonalds chooses to add so many damn ingredients to their food -- especially to something as simple as oatmeal.
how in hades do you figure there's 1 gram of sugar in half a cup of skim milk?? i'm talking the quaker instant oatmeal here. all the skim milk i ever saw has a pretty standard 12 grams of sugar per cup. plus the size discrepancy doesn't do the scientific analysis any favors. this whole thing seems weird and off-putting to me. it's a 300 calorie breakfast treat. bfd. if the thing had 500 calories or something, maybe i'd bother to put together some (occasionally misleading) charts.
At least compare apples to apples. McDonald's Oatmeal has listed fruit as ingredients. The comparison is invalid if regular oatmeal is not listed with similar fruit. In this example apples, raisins and cranberries would raise the part count to 5 (for Non McDonalds) and raise the calorie count.
If you send a kid to a candy shop, don't expect her to come home with a healthy salad.
McDs is as it is--no more, no less/
has more calories than I would eat in a day. Yikes.
You should be eating more calories than that breakfast plate, albeit, not at once, and not in pure fat and sugar. 1200 is a pretty universally recognized minimum.
You can order the oatmeal sans brown sugar and cream.
It cuts out a lot of calories, sugar, and fat and it still just as enjoyable...not to mention better for you!
Enjoy the daylights out of your oatmeal with NO sugar, NO salt, and NO fat of any kind.
These are the healthiest and are really good. Takes 30 minutes extra in the morning, but I make a large batch, put in refrigerator and then take out each morning and heat in microware for a fast breakfast.
i'll pass on this!
I am not condoning the ingredients used by any means, but comparing nutritional data from one that has fruit and maple flavoring to plain oatmeal eschews the numbers
I think you make an excellent point. Apples and oranges should not be compared. Clearly, fruit and maple oatmeal will have more ingredients and calories than a smaller amount of plain oatmeal.
Okay, their oatmeal has apples and oranges but it also has a list ingredients I cannot even begin to pronounce, and I guarantee that extra fat doesn't come from the fruit. If you HAVE to eat breakfast out of the home, get some instant, some apples and whatever, throw it in the microwave at work. Or as someone suggested, make it ahead of time.
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