Honey Nut Cheerios & Weight Loss

Flavored Cheerios cereals from General Mills include chocolate, original, banana nut and multi-grain flavors, as well as Honey Nuts Cheerios. Honey Nut Cheerios can help you lose weight as part of a balanced diet, but remember that no single food product determines your weight loss. Talk to a nutritionist for help designing a weight loss diet that includes a variety of healthy foods.
Calories

Honey Nut Cheerios can play a part in your weight loss plan if they help you eat fewer calories. A three-quarter cup serving of Honey Nut Cheerios has 110 calories, and it can be part of a low-calorie breakfast or a calorie-controlled snack. The cereal will only help you lose weight if you substitute it for higher-calorie foods and manage your caloric intake. Maintaining your weight means balancing the calories you eat with the calories you burn, and to lose weight, you need to eat fewer calories than you expend.

Essential Nutrients
Honey Nut Cheerios can be a healthy food on a weight loss diet because it is high in essential vitamins and minerals. When you are reducing your food intake to lose weight, it is important to emphasize nutritious foods so that you can meet your nutritional recommendations without going over your calorie limit. Each 28-g, or three-quarter cup, serving of Honey Nut Cheerios provide at least 20 percent of the daily value for iron, riboflavin, thiamin, niacin, folic acid, zinc, vitamin B-12 and vitamin B-6, and 10 percent of the daily value for calcium, vitamin A, vitamin C and vitamin D.

Macronutrients
A low-fat diet is one possible approach to weight loss, and a serving of Honey Nut Cheerios has only 1.5. g total fat. It does not contain unhealthy saturated fat, trans fats or cholesterol. Each three-quarter cup serving has 22 g carbohydrate and 9 g sugars. The cereal has only 2 g dietary fiber and 2 g protein. The daily value for fiber is 25 g and the daily value for protein is 50 g. Protein and fiber are filling nutrients that may help you control your weight, and you can eat your Cheerios with some fruit, for extra fiber, and milk or yogurt, for more protein. Fruit and dairy products will add calories as well as essential nutrients, such as potassium, vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium or vitamin D.

Considerations
Honey Nut Cheerios are made from whole grains, which are naturally high in fiber. Individuals who eat more whole grains instead of refined grains tend to have lower weights, according to the Linus Pauling Institute Micronutrient Information Center. The cereal may promote weight loss if you enjoy eating it, because it can help you stick to your diet plan. Even if the cereal does not help you lose weight, it can be a healthier choice than alternative choices, such as potato chips, pretzels, which may be higher in fat, sodium or refined starches. The product has a Heart-Check Mark symbol, which means that it meets American Heart Association nutritional criteria for a heart-healthy food.

Honey Nut Cheerios Commercial

Kyra Walters in a Honey Nut Cheerios Commercial filmed at Laika Studios in Portland, Oregon.

Calories in Honey Nut Cheerios

Honey Nut Cheerios
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size
1 cup (30.0 g)
Amount Per Serving
Calories
118
Calories from Fat
14
% Daily Value*
Total Fat
1.6g
2%
Saturated Fat
0.0g
0%
Trans Fat
0.0g
Polyunsaturated Fat
0.5g
Monounsaturated Fat
0.5g
Cholesterol
0mg
0%
Sodium
204mg
8%
Total Carbohydrates
23.2g
8%
Dietary Fiber
2.1g
9%
Sugars
9.6g
Protein
3.2g
Vitamin A 11% • Vitamin C 11%
Calcium 11% • Iron 27%
* Based on a 2000 calorie diet

Good points

No saturated fat
No cholesterol
Very high in iron
Very high in manganese
Very high in niacin
High in riboflavin
Very high in thiamin
Very high in vitamin B6
Very high in vitamin B12
Very high in zinc

Bad points

Very high in sugar

Why Honey Nut Cheerios So Good?

You already know that Honey Nut Cheerios® packs the goodness of Cheerios with the irresistible taste of golden honey, making it a family favorite. But did you know that each little "o" also contains soluble fiber from whole grain oats? As part of a heart-healthy eating plan, eating Honey Nut Cheerios each day can help lower your cholesterol.* Made with whole grains and low in fat, Cheerios also provides 13 essential vitamins and minerals. That’s something that everyone can smile about!

*Three grams of soluble fiber daily from whole grain oat foods, as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, may reduce the risk of heart disease. Honey Nut Cheerios provides .75g of soluble fiber per serving.

Why Honey Nut Cheerios So Good?
13 vitamins & minerals
Low fat
Good source of calcium
Made with whole grain
Helps recede the risk of heart disease
Can help lower cholesterol
Excellent source of iron
Certified by the American Heart Association, Learn more at heartcheckmark.org

Source:http://www.cheerios.com/Products/Honey-Nut-Cheerios

Honey Nut Cheerios

Honey Nut Cheerios is a variation of Cheerios breakfast cereal, introduced in 1979 by the General Mills cereal company. This is the second variation from Original Cheerios, it is sweeter than the original, with a honey and almond flavor. While this product used to be made with actual nuts, as of 2006, the nuts were discontinued, and natural flavor used instead.

Mascot and promotions
Their mascot is an anthropomorphic bee, designed for the first commercials by Dean Yeagle at Zander's Animation Parlour in NYC. The bee buzzed around without a name until 2000, when Kristine Tong, a fifth-grade student from Coolidge, Texas, won a national contest to name the bee, dubbing him "BuzzBee". The name was later shortened to just Buzz. Buzz was originally voiced by Arnold Stang until around 1992. He is currently voiced by Billy West (of Futurama fame). Buzz also appeared as the host in the Honey Nut Cheerios Spelling Bee game, which was named after the breakfast cereal.

Historically, Honey Nut Cheerios has participated in much the same promotional advertising as the original brand, while collaborating with the field of NASCAR and especially driver Bill Lester, in promoting healthy diets. In 1985, Baskin-Robbins introduced a flavor based on the cereal called Honey Nut Crunch. Promotional tie ins included gift certificates in cereal boxes and special Honey Nut Crunch sundaes in stores.

Advertising
Commercials for the product have been a mainstay of Saturday morning cartoon programming for many years. They generally depict the mascot tempting a hapless child or adult with a sparkling bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios, and their attempts to compete for it.

The styles of commercials have changed over the years. In the early '80s, commercials mostly featured adults talking about the cereal and how good and healthy it is. During a majority of the '80s and '90s, commercials would mostly be about Buzz trying to tempt someone with a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios. They'd normally refuse, but Buzz would not give up; he'd eventually tell them that the cereal contains real golden honey and crunchy nuts/wholegrains, and the consumer would respond, "Did you say honey and nuts?", and have the cereal. Commercials in the late '90s voiced by Andrew "Andy" Morris, would be about Buzz coming into a classic fairy tale and do the same thing he's always done in the past. Commercials in the 2000s are mostly animated adventures about Buzz and his friends outsmarting villains trying to steal all the honey in the hive. Most recently, some commercials have been featured in CGI.

One Honey Nut Cheerios commercial that has gone on to become one of the longest-running commercials in history features Buzz paying a visit to the infamous Ebenezer Scrooge. This commercial (which first premiered in the late-Fall of 1989) was eventually revised to reflect the newer Buzz voice by Andy Morris in the mid Nineties, when the cereal's tagline was changed to "Nobody can say No to Honey Nut Cheerios". This commercial generally re-airs during each winter holiday season. The new voice for Buzz since 2004 is Charlie Schlatter. The new Buzz phrase is "Bee Happy, Bee Healthy." Since 2009, Heath Brandon has been the announcer voice over (AVO) for Honey Nut Cheerios.

Taglines
Many of this cereal's taglines overlapped with each other. They were used on different advertisements.

It's a honey of an O. (1979–1990)
It's Honey Nut Cheerios! (1979–1992; 2000–2004)
It's Irrezzzzistable! (1992–1993)
Race for the taste! (1993–1995)
Little O, Big Taste! (1995–1999)
Nobody can say "No" to Honey Nut Cheerios. (1995–2004)
Bee happy, bee healthy! (2001 - Current)
From the hive that's nuts about honey! (c.2004–present)

Health appeal
Honey Nut Cheerios maintains much of the same health appeal of the original Cheerios, due to its soluble fiber. Package nutritional information explains that "three grams of soluble fiber daily from whole grain oat foods, like Honey Nut Cheerios, in a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, may reduce the risk of heart disease. Honey Nut Cheerios has 0.75g per serving.

This has been linked to the ability to lower cholesterol. As with Cheerios, the American Heart Association certified the cereal as "heart-healthy" for meeting the food criteria for saturated fat and cholesterol content.

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_Nut_Cheerios