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Quaker Whole Hearts: make your heart healthy and your taste buds happy

Just in time for American Heart Month, Quaker Foods has concocted a new cereal that's formulated to benefit your heart. Quaker Whole Hearts contains .75 grams of oat soluble fiber per 30 gram serving.  How does that help your heart?  Studies show that consuming 3 grams of soluble fiber daily from oats can help reducde cholesterol as part of low-cholesterol, low-saturated fat diet, which can help lower your risk of heart disease.

So now you know why it's good for your heart. But here's the real question: how does it taste? I poured a bowl of Quaker Whole Hearts for breakfast for several days in a row. Sometimes a new food tastes good just because it's different - but Quaker Whole Hearts proved to be the real deal.

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It's just sweet enough, stays crunchy in milk, and, because it contains fiber, keeps you full until it's time for your mid-morning apple break. Recommendation: 5 spoons up!

Rating for Quaker Whole Hearts Cereal:

5

, Diets Examiner

Joanne Eglash has an M.S. in nutrition and more than 20 years of journalism experience. Currently a featured food columnist for Yahoo, she invites you to follow her on Twitter.

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