How many bowls of cereal should i eat a day
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- how much cereal should you eat a day
- how much cereal should you eat in the morning
- how much cereal should you eat for breakfast
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Are recommended portion sizes too small, or are we eating too much? More than 120 people took part in our cereal experiment to find out.
Very few of us look at the recommended portion sizes on packaging when serving ourselves food - we go by instinct and plate up how much we think we need to satisfy our hunger.
But the results of our cereal experiment show that many of us are in for a shock, as recommended portion sizes are considerably smaller than the amount we tend to serve ourselves.
Find out more below.
The Which? cereal experiment
To test how realistic cereal manufacturers' recommended portion sizes are, we enlisted the help of staff and members of the Which?
Connect panel.
All 122 participants served themselves a 'usual' bowl of their cereal and told us the dry weight of their serving, the portion size that's recommended on the packaging and the type of cereal they were eating.
Our results show our volunteers served themselves, on average, 63% more than the recommended portion.
Cereal serving sizes: recommended vs actual
Servings of Bran
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