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Fri Oct 03, 2008 at 22:05:40 PM PDT
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Consumer Reports analyzed a number of cereals marketed to kids to see how much added sugar they contained. The results were scary. Keep in mind that a 2000 calorie diet should have no more than 40g of added sugars (10 tsp).
Cheerios, Kix, Honey Nut Cheerios (all General Mills), and Life (Quaker Oats) earned points for relatively lower sugar and higher dietary fiber, the two categories we weighed as most important. Cheerios topped the list with only 1 gram of sugar and a healthful 3 grams of fiber per serving.
That's the good news. Here's the bad news:
There is at least as much sugar in a serving of Kellogg's Honey Smacks and 10 other rated cereals as there is in a glazed doughnut from Dunkin' Donuts. Two cereals, Kellogg's Honey Smacks and Post Golden Crisp, are more than 50 percent sugar (by weight) and nine are at least 40 percent sugar. And that's not the only issue. Although Kellogg's Rice Krispies has only 4 grams of sugar per serving, it got only a Fair rating, largely because it is higher in sodium and has zero dietary fiber.
The worse news? Who eats just one serving of cereal? If you fill up a large bowl with one of these sugary cereals, you could end up eating an entire CUP of sugar. |
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