Kid’s Cereals are packed with Sugar!!

Of the list of 21 cereals taken from the foodessentials database and compared by sugar content, it was astonishing to find the level of sugar contained in most of the products.  At the high end of the scale there are products with sugar levels of close to 50 grams per 100 grams and over.  Whilst the lower end of the scale (dominated again by Annie’s Cereals – see previous article about cereals and colors) shows values more reasonable at around 6 – 20 grams per 100 grams.

This means that in one 100 gram  serving of these high sugar cereals you’d be eating about 50 grams of sugar (50%).  Read more

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