Healthy fortified cereal

Mary-Ellen

Hi
I did a search but all breakfast recommendations are for oats or eggs which would be my choice anyway but...
I'm vegetarian and I'm deficient in vitamin B12

I do eat eggs and dairy but apparently not enough.
Even though I hate the sugery processed crap (imo) that comes in cereal boxes I'd be willing to have a little bowl in the evenings to get b12.

I'm a healthy weight and have a pretty good diet so sugar/salt content isn't really an issue.

What's the best fortified cereal if anyone knows off hand please?
I'll look into fortified milk too but if anyone has any other suggestions that'd be great too


(I've been to a doctor and have 100% rda capsules but I'd like to get a bit of b12 naturally too)

Thanks

Hanley

Mary-Ellen wrote: »

Even though I hate the sugery processed crap (imo) that comes in cereal boxes I'd be willing to have a little bowl in the evenings to get b12.

(I've been to a doctor and have 100% rda capsules but I'd like to get a bit of b12 naturally too)

Thanks

If you want to get in truly naturally you're probably better off eating natural food. I honestly don't see how the b12 coming from some highly processed breakfast cereal is superior to a tablet...

Table 2: Selected Food Sources of Vitamin B12 [13]
Food Micrograms (mcg)per serving Percent DV*
Liver, beef, braised, 1 slice 48.0 800
Clams, cooked, breaded and fried, 3 ounces 34.2 570
Breakfast cereals, fortified with 100% of the DV for vitamin B12, 1 serving 6.0 100
Trout, rainbow, wild, cooked, 3 ounces 5.4 90
Salmon, sockeye, cooked, 3 ounces 4.8 80
Trout, rainbow, farmed, cooked, 3 ounces 3.5 58
Cheeseburger, double patty and bun, 1 sandwich 2.1 35
Haddock, cooked, 3 ounces 1.8 30
Breakfast cereals, fortified with 25% of the DV for vitamin B12, 1 serving 1.5 25
Yogurt, plain, 1 cup 1.4 23
Beef, top sirloin, broiled, 3 ounces 1.4 23
Tuna, white, 3 ounces 1.0 17
Milk, 1 cup 0.9 15
Cheese, Swiss, 1 ounce 0.9 15
Beef taco, 1 taco 0.8 13
Ham, cured, roasted, 3 ounces 0.6 10
Egg, large, 1 whole 0.6 10
Chicken, roasted, ½ breast 0.3

While fortified cereals are up there, so is a lot of fish and other slightly more natural foods - I'd go for those instead
sorry the table pasted badly
http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminB12/

To try and answer your question, I think bran flakes would be the closest, but they're still full of sugar and processed so if you want it more "naturally" than a pill, the table above might be a better source

Mary-Ellen

I don't eat fish either
Seems like I'll be sticking with the tablet.


Thanks for the response, cheese omlette anyone?

Mary-Ellen

Mary-Ellen wrote: »

I don't eat fish either
Seems like I'll be sticking with the tablet.


Thanks for the response, cheese omlette anyone?

Completely forgot the vegetarian part, sorry

belle2e

porridge with raisin or mixed berries on top
bannas
and unfortunately alot of oily fish isgood for u,eat the fish say no to ur tablets :pac:

--Kaiser--

Cereals aren't very healthy and you don't like them so don't eat them.

Eat more eggs and milk, supplement with Marmite if you can stand it (it has an acquired taste)

Mary-Ellen

bluewolf wrote: »

Completely forgot the vegetarian part, sorry

Don't worry about it, according to the mammy it's just a fussy phase anyway

I'll have a look into marmite can't even remember what it tastes like :eek:

Thanks again for the advice everyone

MadsL

Twiglets - full of B12 - and stupidly addictive (full of wholewheat too)

arandale

what about muesli, would you consider it a help in losing weight, does anyone know of the new no sugar added called Paddy o something.

Animord

arandale wrote: »

what about muesli, would you consider it a help in losing weight, does anyone know of the new no sugar added called Paddy o something.

I don't know the answer to your question, but its Paddy's O'Granola that you are talking about. http://www.granola.ie/

arandale

Animord, thank you so much, just what i was looking for. I hope i can use it in my diet and lose weight too.