(FYI, we're supposed to eat only 10 teaspoons of sugar PER DAY!!!! - promoted by Jill Richardson)
By Ed Bruske
aka The Slow Cook
Yesterday I stopped by the cafeteria at my daughter's school here in the District of Columbia--H.D. Cooke Elementary--and this is what many of the kids were having for breakfast: A package of sugar-glazed cookies called Kellogg's Crunchmania Cinnamon buns; chocolate- or strawberry-flavored milk; grape juice.
A 1.76-ounce packet of Crunchmania contains 13 grams of sugar, or 3 tespoons. Chocolate milk packs 26 grams of sugar, somewhat more than 6 teaspoons. And the grape juice delivers 18 grams of sugar in a little four-ounce container, another four-plus teaspoons. Altogether, that's more than 13 teaspoons of nutritionally worthless sugar first thing in the morning, courtesy of the public school system and its food service provider, Chartwells.
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