Kellogg’s Frosted Mini Wheats Ingredients & Nutrition
Frosted Mini Wheats®, manufactured by WK Kellogg Co®, are a popular cereal choice for breakfast. Each bite-size biscuit is made with 100% whole grain wheat and topped with a unique sweet layer of frosting. In addition to the original, the food manufacturer has introduced different sizes and new flavors, including blueberry, chocolate, and golden honey, among others.
Depending on flavor selected, each serving of Frosted Mini Wheats has 190+ calories, 6 grams of dietary fiber, and 12 grams of added sugars.
In this post, we provide a complete overview of the ingredients and nutrition facts in Frosted Mini Wheats.
Frosted Mini Wheats Cereal Nutrition
Let’s start with the original.
Here is a breakdown of the calories and nutrients in this breakfast cereal. Nutrition facts are based on a single serving, measured as 60 grams (about 25 bite size wheat biscuits).
Calories in Mini Wheats Cereal
There are 210 calories in one serving of Frosted Mini Wheats cereal. Nearly all (87%) of the calories are comprised of carbohydrates.
Nutrition Facts: Original
Sugars
Notably, the 51 grams of carbs in one serving of this breakfast cereal consist of 12 grams of total sugars, all of which are added sugars.
Nutrition Facts Label
Here is the nutrition facts label for Kellogg’s Frosted Mini Wheats.
Frosted Mini-Wheats Ingredients
The frosted mini wheats are made with whole grain wheat, sugar, brown rice syrup, gelatin, and BHT (for freshness), reduced iron, and folic acid.
What is BHT?
Butylated Hydroxyanisole (BHA) and Butylated Hydroxytoluene (BHT) are inorganic food preservatives used in processed foods to maintain freshness. It’s often used in the manufacturing of cereals, chewing gum, potato chips, and processed meats such as hot dogs and sausage.
The BHT chemical is also commonly used in the cosmetics industry. BHT is a toluene-based ingredient. You may want to learn more about this ingredient through recent action in California, which banned the use of nail products containing toluene.
Allergens
The cereal is made with wheat.
Frosted Mini-Wheats Blueberry
Read this section for an overview of the blueberry flavored cereal.
As with the original little frosted wheat cereal, the blueberry flavored version has a total of 210 calories per serving. It also has an equal amount of total sugars (12 grams of added sugars).
Nutrition Facts: Blueberry
Frosted Mini-Wheats Blueberry Ingredients
This blueberry flavored version of the cereal is made with the same whole grain wheat. It also contains sugar, whole wheat flour, brown rice syrup, gelatin, fruit juice (for color), natural and artificial flavors, vegetable juice (for color), BHT (for freshness), reduced iron, and folic acid.
Frosted Mini-Wheats Golden Honey
There are 210 calories per serving of the Golden Honey Frosted Mini Wheats cereal. With only one gram of fat and 5 grams of protein, more than 80% of the total calories are derived from carbohydrates.
As with the other flavors of this bite-sized cereal, there are of total sugars (12 grams of added sugars) per serving (25 little biscuits).
Nutrition Facts: Honey
Frosted Mini-Wheats Golden Honey Ingredients
This cereal is made with whole grain wheat, sugar, honey, gelatin, natural flavor, annatto extract (for color), BHT (for freshness), reduced iron, and folic acid.
Frosted Mini-Wheats Little Bites
Bite-sized wheat biscuits get a little smaller with the Little Bites version of Frosted Mini Wheats cereal.
The size of the cereal is smaller and the total calories per serving is also less when compared with the original version of the cereal. Note, however, that the serving size is also less. One serving of the Little Bites is measured as 56 grams (vs 60 grams).
To create an apples to apples comparison, we can simply calculate calories per gram rather than per serving.
- Original Frosted Mini-Wheats: 210 calories / 60 grams = 3.5 calories per gram
- Little Bites: 190 calories / 56 grams = 3.4 calories per gram
As you can see, these Little Bites are just that – a smaller version of the same cereal. The nutrition facts label lists 190 calories per serving, (20 calories less than the original). But, the cereal is essentially the same other than the size. This holds true when you review the list of ingredients, which are exactly the same.
Nutrition Facts: Little Bites
Frosted Mini-Wheats Little Bites Ingredients
This cereal is made with whole grain wheat, sugar, brown rice syrup, gelatin, BHT (for freshness), reduced iron, and folic acid.
Nutrition facts, allergens, and ingredients source: WK Kellogg Co
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