My wife had recommended the switch from normal breakfast cereal to granola.
We were able to get 2 packets from our local supermarket yesterday but it was out of stock for a period since many families may have stored up excessive food due to Covid-19.
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Granola is a mixture of different types of natural products like nuts, oats and it can come in different flavours. Some may include seeds, dried fruits, spices and many other types of grains.
Below are some of the benefits of granola
Fight Your Hunger
With protein and fiber, it helps us to manage our appetite by making us feel full and it also help us to reduce hunger throughout the day.
It provides prevention of insulin spike in a natural way which will keep our blood glucose in check.
This may just help in getting us to slim down but the need to monitor the amount of calories intake as it has high calories on the other hand.
Manage Our Blood Pressure
It can help us to lower our blood pressure due to the high-fiber contains.
Fight Inflammation
When we add granola is added with extra ingredients like Brazil nuts and Chia Seeds, it is able to have antioxidant effect as well as fight inflammation.
Improve Immune System
With fullness of nutritional ingredients, it strengthens our natural defence mechanism.
Control Cholesterol
It contains beta glucan that is able to lower our bad cholesterol levels including reduction of our cholesterol levels. This result in lowering down the risk of us getting heart diseases.
Other benefits
- Great taste
- Increase our energy level
- Improve our digestive system
- Prevent Anemia
- Natural folic acid for healthy pregnancy
- Vitamin E to promote good skin
- A good alternative of protein intake for vegan diet
- Improve blood circulation due to sodium and potassium
- Fight against migraines
- Improve our brain functions
Side effects to note
It contains high calories, fats and sugars that can be bad for our body.
It may just cause us to gain unwanted weight if we do not monitor the amount of calories that we are taking in since it has high calories.
With an increase intake of excessive calories and sugar, it may also increase our risk of getting metabolic disease as well as diabetes.
Below is a nice video that shares about how we can make our own homemade Granola.
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Below is a nice video that discusses about granola being a controversial health food that different people may have different opinions. It is for your consideration since there are many people are taking it as breakfast nowadays.
In short, my personal take is to have everything in moderation as excessive intake of anything even if it is a natural product, it can have side effect.