What makes granola healthy?

Granola provides protein and important micronutrients like iron, vitamin D, folate, and zinc . Serving sizes vary from 1/4 cup to a full cup depending on the type and brand you choose. Granola can also be an excellent source of: Vitamin B.

Is it healthy to eat homemade granola everyday?

The Bottom Line Granola is healthy in small amounts , especially because oats, nuts, seeds and dried fruit in granola provide some fiber that's good for heart and gut health. However, granola can also be a rich source of calories, saturated fat and sugar, depending on the brand you buy.

What is the healthiest way to eat granola?

Smoothie with Granola Try adding it to your favorite smoothie to give it an extra boost of fiber from the whole grains, healthy fats and added flavor. It's also an easy way to increase calories in a smoothie. Personally, I think it would be a delicious addition to my Strawberry Peanut Butter Smoothie!

What is healthier than granola?

Without anything added to it, muesli is healthier than granola in the sense that it has less fat and sugar. However, if it's prepared with juice or contains a lot of dried fruit, muesli gains the sugar, calories, and carbohydrates that already exist in granola.

Is granola better for you than oatmeal?

Which One Is Better for Breakfast? Both oatmeal and granola make for a healthy, nutritious breakfast, but the winner for us is granola —the added nuts, seeds, and dried fruits give you a source of fiber and healthy fats that oatmeal can't quite compete with.

Healthy Granola Recipe (2024)

ByCearaAugust 21, 2014July 28, 2023

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Welcome to Ceara’s Kitchen 2.0! I am superexcited to launch the latest Ceara’s Kitchen today – the switch from Blogger to WordPress is one I have been meaning to do for awhile and is wellworth it. I am a big fan of WordPress so far – it is faster than Blogger, easier to navigate and I do not have to edit any HTML (phew!). It makes me wonder why I have waited so long to go forth with the switch in the first place. There is a bit of a ‘learning curve’ in the beginning with WordPress but thankfully my brother was there to help me initially get things set up (or else I still might be sitting there trying to figure out the downloading process!). And here it is – the new and improved Ceara’s Kitchen 🙂

Feel free to have a look around – meet me, read about my “before and after”, check out my new recipe page and see what I have checked off on my 30 before 30! 🙂

And in celebration of my new website, I present to you one of my favourite healthy granola recipes – my current go-to breakfast (along with my morning smoothie, of course). This healthygranola recipe is full of good-for-you ingredients that any health-nut probably has stashed away in the cupboard– chia & flax seeds, oats, shredded coconut, walnuts, almonds, pumpkin and sunflower seeds. This Healthy Granola Recipeis infused with a bit of coconut oil, a splash of maple syrup and a dash of cinnamon for flavour and good measure. As you can probably guess, these ingredients make for one heck of an energizing and nutritious breakfast to start the day!

This healthy granola recipeis rustic, hearty and slightly sweet. I love it by the handful as a ‘trail mix’ (who doesn’t love cereal straight from the box!), as a cereal with some homemade nut milk or as a good ol’ granola topping with yogurt. This detox granolais so simple, easy to make and versatile it makes me wonder why I haven’t ventured into granola making before 😉

Wishing you a wonderful weekend, please let me know what you think of the new website (or this hearty granola) in the comments– I would love to hear your feedback. Lots of love from my Kitchen to yours!

Energizing Detox Granola

Author: Ceara
Total Time: 20 mins
Yield: 8 1x

Description

This detox granola is rustic, hearty and slightly sweet – it is full of good-for-you ingredients that any health-nut probably has stashed away in the cupboard – chia & flax seeds, oats, shredded coconut, walnuts, almonds, pumpkin and sunflower seeds. This Energizing Detox Granola is infused with a bit of coconut oil, a splash of maple syrup and a dash of cinnamon for flavour and good measure. As you can probably guess, these ingredients make for one heck of an energizing and nutritious breakfast to start the day!

Ingredients

Scale

2 cups large flake oats
1 cup unsweetened desiccated coconut
1/3 cup walnuts, roughly chopped*
1/2 cup almonds, roughly chopped*
2 tbsp sunflower seeds
1/4 cup pumpkin seeds
1/4 cup flax seed, ground
3 tbsp chia seeds
1/4 tsp sea salt
1 tsp cinnamon

Wet Ingredients

1/4 cup maple syrup
2 tbsp coconut oil, melted

Dried Fruit

1/2 cup + 2 tbsp raisins
1/2 cup dates, pits removed & roughly chopped

Instructions

Pre-heat oven to 325°f or 160°c. Cover large baking sheet with parchment paper.
Add dry ingredients (oats, coconut, nuts and seeds) to a large bowl.
Add salt and cinnamon to dry ingredients, mix ingredients until the cinnamon and ingredients are evenly dispersed.
Warm up coconut oil and maple syrup in the microwave in 15 second increments until the coconut oil is melted (making sure not to burn the maple syrup!).
Add coconut oil and maple syrup to dry granola mixture. Stir until all the oats, coconut and seeds are evenly coated with wet mixture.
Spread the granola mixture evenly on parchment covered baking sheet and cook for 15 – 20 minutes (until golden brown). Make sure to stir granola every 5 minutes and that it does not burn 🙂
Once the granola is golden brown let it cool down for a couple of minutes. Being careful not to burn yourself transfer the granola the large bowl, add dried fruit and mix together until the dried fruit is evenly dispersed!
Voila! Enjoy your hearty, homemade and naturally sweetened granola!

Notes

*For a nut free option substitute more sunflower and pumpkin seeds for almonds and walnuts.

Prep Time: 5 mins
Cook Time: 15 mins

Nutrition

Calories: 3819
Sugar: 145g
Sodium: 668mg
Fat: 204g
Saturated Fat: 89g
Unsaturated Fat: 102g
Trans Fat: 0g
Carbohydrates: 446g
Fiber: 93g
Protein: 101g
Cholesterol: 0mg