GRANOLA IN YOUR HEALTHY DIET

Granola in your healthy diet

05.07.2015

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Alexandra Marques

We love granola because, it's versatile! Eather it's a store-bought or homemade granola is an oat-based cereal that you can have for breakfast or as a healthy snack. Eat it plain, with milk and fruit or in yogurt. Control your portion size and eat granola as part of an overall balanced diet to get the most health benefits.

My granola is handmade with organic ingredients and it's free of soy, wheat and peanut with gluten free oats. This one in the picture was sprinkled with figs, walnuts and cinnamon and I added fresh blueberries.

Granola is healthy because it provides dietary fiber, which comes from plant foods such as fruit, vegetables, beans and whole grains. Dietary fiber lowers your risk of type 2 diabetes, the fiber in oats lowers your total and bad LDL cholesterol levels.

For extra fiber in your granola, purchase a high-fiber brand or increase the fiber when you are making your own by adding nuts, seeds, flaxseed or dried fruit.

The oats in granola provide iron and potassium, but almost no sodium. 

Granola is healthy because it is a whole grain cereal. Oats are whole grains, which means they still have the bran, germ and endosperm components of the entire grain kernel, and you should get at least half of your grains from whole grain sources, they might lower your risk for heart disease.

Granola made with whole, natural ingredients has more health benefits than downsides, but it can still be high in calories and fat. For that reason, it’s important to eat it in moderation. Stick to servings of about 1/4 cup  and enjoy granola with nonfat milk or yogurt. I choose an almond milk. My organic almond milk, is a source of proteins and calcium and it's sugar free and milk free, 0%gluten and 0%soya as you can read in this picture.

 Enjoy!