When it’s cold and uncomfortable outside, many people have a warming breakfast porridge instead of the usual muesli with cold milk. This is now even available as a ready-made product in supermarkets. Particularly practical: the finished breakfast porridge only has to be poured over with hot water and is ready to eat immediately – although this variant usually also contains a lot of sugar.
Sugar bomb-ready breakfast porridge
Boil water, stir into the ready-made breakfast porridge mixture, refine with seasonal fruits or nuts – and the quick breakfast is ready. Anyone who likes to use prepackaged breakfast porridge from the supermarket should definitely study the list of ingredients beforehand because ready-made breakfast porridge can also turn out to be a sweet sugar bomb.
In addition to added granulated sugar, sugar substitutes and flavorings can also be included in the ready-made porridge. This naturally ensures that more calories are absorbed and a rapidly rising blood sugar level, which leads to renewed hunger after it has dropped – annoying food cravings are the result. Thus, the supposedly healthy breakfast porridge is no longer a full meal, but more like a candy.
Make breakfast porridge yourself
If you want to avoid hidden sugar traps, you should make your own breakfast porridge. Porridge is particularly suitable for this! The warm porridge made from cooked oat flakes can be cooked in just a few minutes in either milk (also soy or almond milk) or water until soft.
Refined with vanilla or cinnamon, the homemade breakfast porridge gets a sweet note – without any sugar. With fruit and nuts as a topping, breakfast becomes a real pick-me-up, provides fiber, minerals, and vitamins, and, thanks to the complex carbohydrates, keeps you full for longer.
