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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Color Free Children’s Cereals
From a total list of 21 kids cereals we disappointingly found only 4 products that were color free as listed in the table below. They were all from the Annie’s Cereal range.
Many of the products that did contain ingredients potentially used as colors such colors as Calcium Carbonate, Modified Wheat Starch, Yellow 6, Yellow 5, Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin), Red 40, Ascorbic Acid, Blue 1 and many others. Yellow 5 and Yellow 6 are both somewhat controversial colors encompassed in a debate as to their potentially harmful effects particularly in relation to behavior modification and ADHD in children. Read more
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