Kellogg’s Bright Start Honey Flavoured Corn Flakes

Let's review- Kellogg's Bright Start Honey Flavoured Corn Flakes

What is in it?

Whole grains (34%)(oats, wheat, brown rice), corn (27%), sugar, rice, vegetable fibre (chicory), maltodextrin, rice syrup, wheat crispies (wheat flour), corn crisps, minerals (calcium carbonate, iron, zinc oxide), vegetable oil (sunflower), natural flavour, salt, barley malt extract, invert syrup, vitamins (vitamin D, niacin, vitamin E, vitamin B6, riboflavin, folate), antioxidant (rosemary extract).

Allergens

Contains: wheat, gluten.

May contain: peanut, tree nut, soy, sesame.

​Cost: $1.95per 100g

Compared to:

• Regular Weet-bix at $0.50- $0.70 per 100g
• Little Kid's Weet-Bix at $1.13 per 100g
• Rice Bubbles $1.59-$2.16 per 100g
• Coles Rice Puffs $0.78 per 100g
• Coles Corn Flakes $0.48 per 100g
• Kellogg's Corn Flakes Original $0.83-$1.32 per 100g
• Most cereals range from $0.50-$3.00 per 100g

What we like:

• Moderate sugar- It has 12.6g per 100g, which is lower than most cereals we review.  We ideally want cereals to have less than 15g to keep it in the low to moderate range (less than 5g per 100g is low and less than 15g is moderate).

Let's compare the sugar in these to other cereals:

• Cheerios Low Sugar Vanilla O's (4.1g per 100g)
• Rice bubbles (8.4g per 100g)
• Corn Flakes (8.9g per 100g)
• Cheerios Original (14.6g per 100g)
• Milo Cereals (23.9g per 100g)
• Weetbix Bites (21.8g per 100g)
• Nutrigrain (24g per 100g)
• Cocopops (32.2g per 100g)

• It has added iron (3mg per serve) which is great for our kiddos that don't like meat and struggle to get iron rich foods into their diet over the day
• Low in saturated fat (0.8g per 100g) which we would expect for a breakfast cereal. 
• Moderate in sodium- with 195mg per 100g. We are aiming for less than 400mg per 100g and as close to or lower than 120mg per 100g is best.
• Added Calcium- this has 571mg per 100g (much higher than Nutrigrain with 200mg, Cheerios Low Sugar Vanilla Flavoured O's with 400mg and Little Kid's Essentials Weet-Bix with 366mg). Most kids can meet their calcium needs easily without fortified cereals but for our dairy free families looking for ways to boost calcium intake, these might be worth keeping in mind. 

What we like less:

• Fibre - it is a little lower than we would like with 2.8g per serve (we like to see it above 3g). You could always add some seeds, ground nuts and or fruit on top to boost this though. 
• Texture- it does have hard oat clusters than might be hard for toddlers to chew and would be a choking hazard for much younger kids. 

Other things to consider:

• Protein- 7.7g per 100g of protein. This may be useful for some families, but most children in Australia easily meet if not exceed their protein requirements so parents don't need to go looking for ways to add more in!
• Weirdly- despite honey being in the name of this product there is actually no honey in the ingredients! Not a pro or a con just something we thought we should mention. 

The Take Home: 

Although the sugar is on the higher side than some of the other cereals we have reviewed (Cheerios Low Sugar Vanilla Flavoured O's and Little Kid's Essentials Week-Bix have to be two of our favourites) these are a pretty good choice when you compare them to the guidelines and with what else is out there! 

If you want to learn how to review cereals yourself, check out our new resource on 'Choosing Cereals for Toddlers' (you can check it out here)!