10 Foods You Should Never Eat for Breakfast

While breakfast gives you energy for the whole day, an unhealthy breakfast, on the other hand, makes you limp and tired. Regardless of whether you prefer it sweet or savory, we explain why you should always avoid sweet cornflakes, toast, fruit nectar, and the like in the morning.

The 10 Most Unhealthy Foods for Breakfast

1. Cereals

Cereals with milk are a popular breakfast, especially in the morning. Whether chocolate muesli, cornflakes, or cinnamon chips, cereals are available in all flavors.

Usually, the packaging advertises added vitamins and minerals and with the fact that the flakes or muesli are made from whole grain, in order to make them a supposedly healthy choice.

Unfortunately, most cereals are actually, made from highly processed wheat flour and consist of up to 45 percent sugar.

This sugar content is particularly unhealthy for children, as a bowl in the morning often already covers half of their daily needs.

Instead of processed mueslis and cornflakes, it is better to use oatmeal with yogurt and fresh fruit. You can find more healthy muesli recipes here!

NOTE!

Processed mueslis often contain a high sugar content of up to 50 percent. Instead, use oatmeal with fresh fruit and yogurt.

2. Butter toast

Toast in the morning is just as frequently eaten as cereals. Even if this meal can be prepared very quickly and easily, there are a few reasons that speak against it.

Unfortunately, white bread is a fatty food. Wheat flour is heavily processed and contains almost no fiber or nutrients, but all the more carbohydrates. As a result, the blood sugar level is pushed up for a short time and then drops again rapidly. This only leads to a very brief feeling of satiety and it encourages food cravings.

Instead of white toast, it’s better to use wholemeal or spelt bread. These contain a lot of important fiber and minerals, keep you full longer, and thus prevent food cravings.

NOTE!

White toast is made from heavily processed wheat flour. As a result, it contains hardly any fiber or nutrients, but a lot of carbohydrates. Better: whole grain or spelt bread.

3. Fruit juices

There are many variations of fruit juices, but unfortunately, not all of them are healthy. Be careful with multivitamin juices, ACE drinks, and fruit nectars. Often, in addition to the natural sugar in the fruit, there are also added sugars and flavors hidden in the beverages.

You should therefore prefer not-from-concentrate juices or freshly squeezed fruit juices and pay attention to the list of ingredients: the shorter it is, the better!

NOTE!

Juice is not just juice. Sugar is often added to juices, making them very unhealthy. You should therefore buy not-from-concentrate juices or freshly squeezed fruit juices.

4. Pancakes

Pancakes are extremely versatile and easy to make. Unfortunately, they also contain a lot of carbohydrates and, depending on the topping, a lot of fat and sugar.

So don’t make pancakes regularly, as this will make your breakfast unhealthy. As a delicious highlight for Sunday brunch, however, they are still allowed, because here, too, the following applies: balance is everything!

NOTE!

Pancakes are high in carbohydrates and, depending on the topping, also high in fat and sugar, which is why they should not be consumed too often.

5. Croissants

This classic from France tastes just super delicious, but with a calorie content of over 400 kilocalories per piece it belongs in the confectionery department rather than on the breakfast board.

Not only the highly processed wheat flour, but also the very high fat content makes croissants an unhealthy breakfast.

NOTE!

Croissants hardly contain any fiber or nutrients, but they do contain a lot of fat. That makes them a very unhealthy breakfast.

6. Reduced-fat fruit yogurt

When you think of reduced-fat yogurt, you don’t think about it as contributing to an unhealthy breakfast. Natural reduced-fat yogurt is also a good alternative; only the low-fat fruit yogurt contains the calories. Because to make the yogurt sweeter and fuller, a lot of sugar is often added.

As a result, reduced-fat fruit yogurt often contains up to 15 grams of sugar per 100 grams and thus contributes to an unhealthy breakfast. Regular reduced-fat yogurt, on the other hand, only contains five grams of sugar and is much better for breakfast.

So instead, use normal reduced-fat yogurt and cut yourself into fresh fruit.

NOTE!

In contrast to regular reduced-fat yogurt, reduced-fat fruit yogurt often contains three times as much sugar and is therefore not healthy.

7. Granola bars

Open the packaging, eat the muesli bars and you’ve eaten your breakfast. In advertising, people often want us to believe that it is enough to eat a certain bar for breakfast to start the day with a lot of energy.

The truth is, however, different: Many granola bars contain a very large amount of sugar and therefore also of carbohydrates.

There are also various flavors, emulsifiers, and fat additives. A granola bar has an average of 125 kilo calories, which is roughly the same as a chocolate bar of the same size.

Instead of using the muesli bars you bought, you’d better bake some yourself. This is how you determine how much sugar you want to use and what ingredients go into your bars.

NOTE!

Store-bought muesli bars often contain a lot of sugar, flavorings, emulsifiers, and fat additives. Instead, it’s better to make your own bars.

8. Sausage

In addition to the high fat and salt content, the heavily processed types such as meat sausage, liver, and tea sausage or mortadella contain a lot of preservatives, flavor enhancers, and colorings. Processed meat can cause cancer, according to research.

Make sure you eat less processed and less fatty sausages such as salmon ham or turkey breast for breakfast.

NOTE!

Heavily processed sausages in particular contain a lot of fat, salt, and additives that are very unhealthy for our body.

9. Latte macchiato

With countless fully automatic coffee machines, nobody has to be a barista to conjure up a delicious latte macchiato or cappuccino in the morning.

Unfortunately, the sweet coffee specialties have a lot of calories and make breakfast quite unhealthy.

If you add caramel or vanilla syrup to the coffee, the drink will quickly reach 200–300 kilo calories.

Therefore, in the morning it is better to choose a normal coffee with a dash of low-fat milk. This means you have around 50 calories per cup and you can start your day relaxed.

NOTE!

Unfortunately, many delicious coffee specialties are real calorie bombs. In the morning, choose a black coffee with just a dash of milk.

10. Nut and nougat cream

It should be clear to everyone by now that nut nougat cream is not one of the healthy foods due to its high sugar content. Two slices of bread are already spread with the chocolate cream and an adult has already consumed the amount of sugar recommended by the DGE for a whole day in the morning.

In addition to the high amount of sugar, nut nougat creams also contain a lot of fat in the form of palm oil. The relatively high content of saturated fatty acids in palm oil can lead to a deterioration in blood lipid levels. This increases the risk of vascular calcification and diabetes.

A bread with nut nougat cream is perfectly fine. In everyday life, however, it is better to use homemade jam. This contains hardly any fat and no preservatives.

NOTE!

Nut and nougat cream has a very high sugar and fat content. As a sweet spread, it is better to use delicious homemade jams.