Food for thought

Milk is 2% from Dairyland. The leading company is Saputo from Montreal Quebec. This company is fairly large and has many locations around Canada. I have also discovered there is a manufacturer right in Burnaby, where I live. So I am assuming the travel distance to transport the milk is not that great and almost insignificant in this case.

Milk ingredients: Partly skimmed milk, vitamin A palpitate, vitamin D.

Cereal that i consumed were Honey Nut Cheerios from General Mills. The company is located in Minneapolis in the United States. Although the company is located in Minneapolis I believe there are closer areas of production. But there isn’t a producer here in BC, so either way this particular brand of cereal requires a large amount of fossil fuel to allow its transportation into our stores and homes.

Major cereal ingredients: Whole grain oats, sugar, modified corn starch, honey, brown sugar syrup, salt, etc.

My main concern with this breakfast meal is how whole grain oats, honey, brown sugar are made and combined to make the cereal. “Whole grain oats” are processed and are no longer whole wheat. The major difference is that “whole grain oats” have been refined and do not contain the full nutrients whole wheat provides. That means within our focus, “whole grain oats” require more energy to alter the grains to produce this particular cereal. Both the honey and brown sugar act as a sweetener for Honey Nut Cheerios. I’m not positive in the overall production of the cereal, but am certain it takes alot of energy to combine all these ingredients into a small cardboard box.