Enjoy life - Perky's Crunchy Flax cereal (allergen free) review

Sunday, July 17, 2011

I wanted to give the folks at Enjoy life a quick nod for their Crunchy Flax cereal. This sweet and super crunchy yumminess, is one of only a handful of dry cereals that I would recommend- particularly when you're talking about Gluten-free cereals. Most GF cereals are made with lots of starches or corn and neither of those I would recommend. Their lists of nutrients are poor to say the least. Essentially you are eating a bowl full of sweetened starch. Hello blood sugar spike, nice to meet you.

So the folks at Enjoy life (who also make a no-nuts trail mix that is school safe and awesome) are a company that eliminates the 10 most common allergens from all of their products. What are they? Here's the list:

  1. wheat
  2. dairy
  3. peanuts
  4. tree nuts
  5. eggs
  6. soy
  7. fish
  8. shellfish
  9. sesame
  10. sulfites

Perky's Crunchy Flax has the following ingredients:
Whole sorghum flour, ground flax seed, honey, raisin juice concentrate, salt.
Yep. That's it.

How about the nutrition panel? Here you go:

Now, have a look at the fiber- 6g. That's pretty spectacular for a breakfast cereal. Throw 1/2 cup of raspberries on there and you up that amount to 10g. Now scroll down to the iron section...In Canada, we say that this serving (3/4 c) is 20% of daily recommended iron. I see that the American version pictured above is 15%. Regardless, trust me when I say that it is almost impossible to find that in a gluten free breakfast cereal. You'll also note that despite the honey and juice concentrate, a serving only has 2g of sugar. PLUS, you will note a whopping 7g of protein. Amazing! Add a handful of sunflower seeds to completely blow that figure out of the water and with those, the raspberries and the cereal, you're rockin'.

Note: I did not receive free product nor compensation from Enjoy life for this product review. Opinions are my own.



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1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yum! I'll have to try this. We buy Enjoy Life chocolate chips because they are dairy free and soy free.

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