Sugar Bomb: 10 Worst Breakfast Cereals
3 Comments | Written on December 8, 2011 at 1:00 pm, by Lesley Kennedy
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Breakfast for dinner is one thing, but no mom in her right mind would serve dessert for breakfast, right? Think again: A new report finds several popular breakfast cereals contain as much sugar as three Chips Ahoy cookies or even an entire Twinkie.
The morning rush just took on a whole new meaning.
The nonprofit Environmental Working Group examined 84 popular kids’ cereals and found that just one-fourth were within voluntary guidelines proposed by federal government agencies. Those guidelines were designed to limit kids’ exposure to excessively sugary, salty and fatty food, and they suggest that a cereal should have no more than 26 percent added sugar, says EWG.
So, which brands made the group’s list of the 10 worst children’s cereals? Here’s they are, based on percent sugar by weight:
10 Worst Children’s Cereals
1. Kellogg’s Honey Smacks, 55.6%
2. Post Golden Crisp, 51.9%
3. Kellogg’s Froot Loops Marshmallow, 48.3%
4. Quaker Oats Cap’n Crunch’s OOPS! All Berries, 46.9%
5. Quaker Oats Cap’n Crunch Original, 44.4%
6. Quaker Oats Oh!s, 44.4%
7. Kellogg’s Smorz, 43.3%
8. Kellogg’s Apple Jacks, 42.9%
9. Quaker Oats Cap’n Crunch’s Crunch Berries, 42.3%
10. Kellogg’s Froot Loops Original, 41.4%
In EWG’s press release, nutrition expert Marion Nestle recommends serving cereals that are high in fiber, short on ingredients and that contain little or no added sugars — like homemade oatmeal served with fresh fruit.
Yeah, but does it come with a toy?
Start the day right with these healthy (and delicious) breakfast alternatives!
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3 Responses to “Sugar Bomb: 10 Worst Breakfast Cereals”
seems to me a little biased if you ask me. the majority of them are Kellogg’s. I also think that Bruce is right.
When I was a kid, honey smacks were called Sugar Smacks. At least everyone knew what was in it.
Without specifying the kind of sugar added or in these cereals, this information is worse than useless. We evolved on sucrose, and have replaced it too heavily with maltose, dextrose, etc. Throwing out sucrose with the ‘bath water’ is dangerous to public health. Sucrose delivers glucose to us without imbalanced glycemic effect. Without glucose delivered that way, we die.