Is granola the ideal breakfast for those who pay attention to their line? Many people swear by granola for breakfast. You can hardly open a cookbook about healthy food without finding some form of this hip dish. Not only for breakfast is granola popular, processed in desserts or as a snack in the form of a bar it is also hot.
There are two reasons for this granola hype: granola is healthy, and it helps to stay (or get) at a healthy weight because it inhibits appetite. But is granola now effectively such a superfood?
Compared to multigrain or wholemeal bread, granola contains much more calories. 60 grams of basic granola without extra added ingredients (there are of course many different recipes and combinations, hence this caveat) has about the same energy value as 100 g of multigrain / wholemeal bread. So you can't eat as much granola as multigrain or wholemeal bread if you want to maintain your weight, although of course it also depends on what you spread or put on such a sandwich. With a healthy topping such as cottage cheese, flat cheese, low-sugar jam, fresh fruit ... you have fewer calories in anyway than if you were to eat the same amount of granola.
In terms of content of fiber and protein, granola and multigrain / wholemeal bread are similar, but granola contains much more fats.
Just for comparison. All quantities are calculated per 100 grams of product:
- ordinary granola: 426 kcal, 13 g protein, 13 g fats, 65 g carbohydrates of which 6.9 g fiber
- wholemeal bread: 243 kcal, 11.4 g protein, 1.9 g fats, 42 g carbohydrates of which 6.7 g fiber
- multigrain bread: 254 kcal, 12.5 g protein, 6 g fats, 37.2 g carbohydrates of which 6 g fiber
- Wholemeal bread is made from wholemeal flour that contains all the parts of the entire grain of grain. That grain of grain can be wheat or spelt, for example.
- Multigrain bread is made on the basis of at least three different cereals, whether or not from the entire grain of grain. Often crushed grains and / or seeds are also added.
