Fascinating world of cereals!!!

So as much as I enjoy me some cereals, I must admit that at times I am fascinated, and have been lated by their compositions. This has caused me to enjoy mixing them whether I calculate it right or not... 

It is incredible to see that some can give you 30% of Iron and another 20% of Iron; thus for me when I mix them it is my way to add them all ; 30% +20% +30%... Wow! it gives a whooping 80% of Iron in my sweek cup of Almond Milk! Such an alternative from Iron pills.  Whenever I can stay away from anything that is pills, it is victory for me... What can I say? I come from a lineage that has been really engrained in natural remedies. All this although I got a Father who is a pharmacist by trade, cousins who are pharmacists and although I almost enrolled in Pharmacy myself back in the days if it wasn't that my GPA was few points; my late maternal grandmother had an incredible knowledge of the plants. 

Her presence in our home over the years when she was alive led to a dive in the world of naturopathy and phytotherapy. You would think that plants spoke to her their virtues. She carried with her generations of knowledge. Today, there is google to help you find what this or that can do, or again there is youtube! In her days while raising me in our home, there was none of that as she prepped concoctions before my eyes as a child while mom and dad were at work. Oh well, this said we shall come to her in another blog if it an interest to you. This said, after being a consumer of cereals for many, I finally decided to research into some of the healthy nutrients my being gets from it.

So whether it be Cheerios, or mini-wheats or Corn Flakes, certain nutrituents are redundant along with their percentage alone and when you mix it in a cup of milk.

 1) Calories: are the measurement unit used to assess how much energy your body get from something you eat or how much energy it burns... E.g. Cheerios give us 100 calories by itself but when consumed with a cup of milk, the quantity increases; for a 125ml cup of milk, it becomes 170 calories.

2) Lipides: According to Wikipedia, these in the fields of Biology or Microbiology are referred too as micro biomolecules that have for function to store energy, to be and inform as structural components the biological membranes of the cells of anything that may affect them or the environment that the cells are protected from. Beside the food industry, lipids are also used in the cosmetic industry and in nanotechnology. Lipids, when analyzed from a biological perspective, may be divided into eight (8) categories:

•  Fatty acids
• Glycerolipids 
• Glycerophospholipids
• Sphingolipids
• Sterols e.g. Cholesterol
• Prenols
• Saccharolipids
• Polyketides

3) Cholesterol is a type of lipid from the category of the sterols that your body generates and that must be monitored through a healthy regiment ranging from  your diet to your training program. Not soluble in water like most lipids, its chemical formula is said to be C27H46O with a molecular mass of 386. 65g/mol as per Google. As well, it is Isopropyl myristate, Ethanol, Acetone, Methanol, Chloroform, Benzene, Hexane. According to many researchers, too much cholesterol or too little cholesterol doesn't just affect the heart, but might affect your skin, your hands, your feet, and even your brain... 

To be continued...

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