Dessert to start the day is a form of Heaven for many people. It seems impossible and most people would run from the thought of starting the day with a few globs of sugar. A new study says that some children's cereals are packed with more sugar in a serving than a regular dessert. Twinkies, cookies and cake for breakfast? Kids have been eating cereal for years so we should have known this by now. Why it is an epiphany? As the push to help kids eat healthier rises so does the truth about what is in their cereal.
When a choice of cereal is set in front of children they will usually grab the brightly colored box with "fun" cereal inside of it. This type of cereal is usually filled with sugar to sweeten the meal for tastebuds. The other box is usually chosen by adults as whole grain healthy morsels for breakfast. A serving of Honey Smacks packs more sugar than a twinkie while if you are eating a bowl of Cap n' Crunch you might as well be eating a few cookies.
This list was posted by the study:
The 10 Worst Cereals in terms of sugar per cup:
Cereal, grams of sugar per cup, teaspoons of sugar:
• Kellogg's Honey Smacks, 20.0, 5 tsp
• Post Golden Crisp, 18.7, 4.6 tsp.
• Quaker Oats Cap'n Crunch Original, 16.0, 4 tsp.
• Quaker Oats Oh!s, 16.0, 4 tsp
• Quaker Oats Cap'n Crunch OOPS! All Berries, 15.0, 3.7 tsp
• Quaker Oats Cap'n Crunch's Crunch Berries, 14.7, 3.6 tsp
• Kellogg's Froot Loops Marshmallow, 14.0,3.5 tsp
• Kellogg's Smorz, 13.0, 3.2 tsp
• Kellogg's Apple Jacks, 12.0, 3.0 tsp
• Kellogg's Froot Loops Original, 12.0, 3 tsp
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