Better Days vs muesli
Fewer calories. Fuller for longer.
Muesli is the better half of the cereal aisle and it is still mostly oats. A bowl gives you about 5g of protein. Eat enough to fix that and you are eating half again the calories for nineteen times the sugar. Here is the whole comparison, nothing left out.
Nutrition compared, per 100g
| Per serve | Better Days | muesli |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 14.6g | 5.0g |
| Sugar | 1.4g | 9.0g |
| Fibre | 8.1g | 4.1g |
| Calories | 327 | 158 |
A 60g Better Days serve against a 45g serve of muesli, the size the packet suggests. muesli figures are category averages from USDA FoodData Central — muesli, dried fruit and nuts.
Now match the protein
Muesli looks lighter until you ask it to do a breakfast’s job. Matching the protein in one Better Days serve takes about 130g of muesli — nearly three of its own servings.
- Better Days · 60g
- 327 Cal
- 1.4g sugar
- muesli · 130g
- 459 Cal
- 26.1g sugar
Same protein. Fewer calories, and a fraction of the sugar — which is what keeps you full to lunch instead of back in the cupboard at ten.
Oats first, everything else second
Most muesli is rolled oats with dried fruit and a scattering of nuts. Oats are fine. They are also why a bowl lands at around 5g of protein, well short of what carries you through a morning.
Half again the calories for the same protein
Reaching 14.6g of protein from muesli means about 130g of it: 459 calories and 26g of sugar. The same protein from Better Days is 327 calories and 1.4g of sugar. You eat less and stay full longer.
The dried fruit is the sugar
Most of that 26g is not added sugar, it is dried fruit concentrated down. Your bloodstream does not draw the distinction. Better Days uses none of it — nuts, seeds and coconut, and nothing to pad it out.
And yes, it costs more
Supermarket muesli is cheaper per kilo, and it will stay cheaper — oats and sugar cost a fraction of nuts and seeds, but they are missing the nutritional density. A serve of Better Days is less than the price of a coffee. Whether that is worth it depends on whether your breakfast currently gets you to lunch.
Try it before you take our word for it
A 60g sample, one full serve, posted to you. No credit card, no commitment.
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