Is Two Bowls Of Cereal Too Much?

Not so much, if you pour too much into your cereal bowl, as many people do. In fact, in a recent Consumer Reports’ test, many cereal eaters were surprised by how small the serving size listed on the box really is. What’s more, the serving sizes for cereal differ from product to product.

Considering one bowl of cereal is considered a meal for breakfast, no. One bowl of cereal and some fruit or a slightly larger bowl of cereal could be considered a replacement for dinner. Unless you’re a hardcore weightlifter or marathon runner you don’t need three bowls of cereal for dinner.

Just use a bigger bowl then you can always just say you ate one bowl, even if the bowl holds 4 liters of cereal. Them the cereal gets soggy!! How do you cereal without crunch?

What’s more, the serving sizes for cereal differ from product to product. This makes it not only confusing to compare one cereal’s nutrition numbers against another’s but also tough to know what a serving of cereal is supposed to be. The major complicating factor is that the standard serving sizes for cereals are based on density—not sheer amount.

Is cereal a good breakfast?

Just ask the 283.39 million Americans who eat cereal for breakfast, according to Statista. If that’s not enough to convince you, cereal is so incredibly popular that it’s almost everywhere. You can find it at most restaurants, offered as a topping in yogurt and ice cream shops, and even in the cabinets of serious collectors who have shelled out up to $2,550 on eBay, according to Eater .

While incredibly convenient, cereal is not as healthy as you might think. If you’ve yet to take a peek at the nutritional label on your favorite cereal box, now is the time to finally see what the real serving size is, and we’re willing to bet that what you’ll find might just shock you.

According to Health Digest, Consumer Reports indicates that people tend to over-serve when it comes to cereal by a large margin. And depending on the type of cereal you’re eating, you can further expect a rise in blood sugar if you double or triple the amount.

How many ounces of cereal is 1 cup?

The major complicating factor is that the standard serving sizes for cereals are based on density—not sheer amount. So a serving of a low-density cereal, such as Cheerios, might be 1 cup (1 ounce), while a serving of a dense cereal, such as granola, might be only ½ cup (2 ounces).

If participants had actually eaten the amount of cereal they had in their bowl, they would have consumed two to four times the number of calories listed on the label—400 to 800 calories vs. 200.