The image at the top is for pinterest and other social sharing platforms and is purely to demonstrate breakfast cereals in general. It does not imply any brand or cereal in particular. The post actually shows the picture and data for honeynut cherrios, but it’s good to see that cherrios themselves are not as bad as the honeynut option. As for the sensationalizing, well I don’t feel bad about that at all. Yes it is true that soluble fibre is beneficial for cholesterol, but cherrios only have 1g per serve and note that I was referring in the podcast and on the post to honeynut cherrios and they have only 0.75g of soluble fibre per serve. Based on what I know about consumer food choice, I think their claims are still misleading for consumers and I highly doubt that people will gain any benefit toward their cholesterol from eating them.

I think the podcast got the message across and that’s the main thing. Hopefully more people will choose other options for breakfast.
Thanks again

In this podcast you read the below as somehow contradicting itself when in fact it does not.

**3 grams of soluble fiber daily from whole grain oat foods, like Cheerios cereal, in a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, may reduce the risk of heart disease. Cheerios cereal provides 1 gram per serving.

The first sentence is stating a well known fact that 3 grams of soluble fiber daily from whole grain oat may help reduce your cholesterol. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21631511) The second sentence tells you that 1 serving of cheerios will give you 1 gram of that daily amount.

I agree for the most part the cereals on this list are horrible and not something I use in my diet. But in this post your are showing Cheerios in the image at the top of this post with some statements next to it. Note that I am talking about Cheerios which is number 4 on this list.

In a 112g of cheerios we have:
412 calories
8g fat
744mg sodium
88g carbs
12g fibre
4g soluable fibre
4g sugar
12g protein

As I mentioned in your picture above you show Cheerios (not Honeynut Cheerios) but have statements next to them insinuating that Cheerios is everything you state, but the truth is:

High sugar – No
High salt – Yes
Low fibre – No, according to your rule of 10 (10.71) or above.
Refined Carbs – I’m sure there are some, but the number 1 ingredient is Whole Grain Oats including the oat bran.
Low Protein – I don’t know. When combined with non-fat milk?

So your image is very misleading.

It bothers me that your larger points are usually spot on but some of your referenced details, as in stating that somehow cheerios was misrepresenting in the statement you read or that there may have been no studies, are shaky.

Time to listen to #25.