Nature's Path Organic Cereal: A Healthy Choice for Breakfast

If it's true that "we are what we eat," then Nature's Path organic cereal would be a smart way to start every day. Nature's Path makes good-for-you cereal that is a healthy choice, for three great reasons.

For starters, Nature's Path cereal is made from organic ingredients. Organic food is better for your body because it's grown without synthetic pesticides, herbicides and fungicides, and contains no harmful preservatives or additives.

Secondly, Nature's Path Organic Cereal contains healthy ingredients such as whole oats, oat bran, flax seed and omega 3 fatty acids. The third reason Nature's Path Organic Cereal is a healthy choice for your body, is because it contains more fiber and less sugar than many other breakfast cereals on the market. Soluble fiber has been shown to help lower LDL (the "bad" cholesterol). Omega 3 fatty acids also help the heart by reducing blood pressure, and may increase HDL (the "good" cholesterol).

With close to 30 different cold varieties of Nature's Path organic cereal, as well as eight granola style cold cereals, there is bound to be at least one flavor (and probably more) of their healthy cereal that appeals to you. Nature's Path cereal is available in flakes, puffs, shredded and shaped varieties.

They also introduced four "Optimum" flavors of organic cereal, including Optimum Rebound Banana Flax Almond which is formulated to be a good post-workout snack, and Optimum Slim for those who are on a weight loss program. Nature's Path organic cereal also comes in nine flavors of hot oatmeal.

I eat cold cereal almost every day except Sunday, which is my designated "egg day." As such, I'm always looking for healthy cereal, and have tried many different varieties of Nature's Path organic cereal. I do have my favorites and tend to buy them more often than the others; however, I can honestly say that I've never tried a Nature's Path cereal that I absolutely hated.

My favorite Nature's Path organic cereal is their Flax Plus Red Berry Crunch. It has just the right amount of sweetness provided by organic dried strawberries and raspberries, along with the omega-3 and fiber-rich flax seed. Red Berry Crunch is also a healthy choice because it has oat bran, whole oats and wheat bran. I also like the multiple textures provided by the crunchy flakes, oat clusters and wheat puffs.

My second favorite Nature's Path organic cereal is their Flax Plus Pumpkin Raisin Crunch. The ingredient list is similar to Red Berry Crunch except that it has organic raisins and pumpkin seeds in place of the fruit. Calorie wise, both are about equal: Red Berry has 210 calories per 3/4 cup and Pumpkin Raisin has 200.

Other varieties of Nature's Path healthy cereal I have tried and liked are Optimum Banana Almond, Smart Bran Psyllium and Oat Bran, 8 Grain Synergy Flakes Multigrain Cereal, and the Heritage Flakes which have been one of their bestselling cereals for many years.

Nature's Path Organic Cereal is a healthy choice for breakfast as well as a light (but filling) snack between meals. Though well known for its certified organic cereal and bread, Nature's Path also makes a variety of snacks, baking mixes and energy bars

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