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Some children???s cereals packed with sugar, study finds

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Some children???s cereals packed with sugar, study finds
By Dina ElBoghdady ~ source

At least three popular children???s cereals are packed with more sugar in a one-cup serving than a Hostess Twinkie, and an additional 44 are loaded with more sugar in a cup than three Chips Ahoy cookies, according to a study released Tuesday by the Environmental Working Group.

Kellogg???s Honey Smacks, Post Golden Crisp and General Mills Wheaties Fuel rank as the worst offenders based on the Twinkie measure, said the study , which analyzed 84 cereals. Other brands ??? including Honey Nut Cheerios, Apple Jacks and Cap???n Crunch ??? are among the 44 cereals that have more sugar in a cup than three Chips Ahoy cookies.

In nearly three-dozen brands, sugar makes up more than a third of the cereal by weight, the study said. Those include the original and ???marshmallow??? versions of Kellogg???s Froot Loops, as well as the original and ???all berries??? version of Quaker Oats Cap???n Crunch.

???Most parents would never serve dessert for breakfast, but many children???s cereals have just as much sugar or more,??? said Jane Houlihan, senior vice president of research for the group, a nonprofit that researches everything from the safety of sunscreens to pesticides in foods. ???I wasn???t surpised that so many of these cereals contained sugar. I was suprised at the very high amounts.???

The report comes at a time when the federal government is considering voluntary guidelines for foods marketed to children. With obesity rates at epidemic levels, a federal inter-agency group wants the industry to limit the sodium, fats and added sugars in the foods and drinks advertised to kids ages 2 to 17.

But the industry has lobbied against the proposal, which would take effect in 2016. Food companies say the guidelines are back-door regulations that would effectively ban food advertising to youth because they are so severe.

The guidelines allow for 13 grams of added sugar per 50 grams of cereal, so that a cereal can be about one-quarter sugar by weight. Two-thirds of the children???s cereals analyzed exceed that threshold, the Environmental Working Group said.

The industry prefers its own standard, unveiled in July, that calls for no more than 10 grams of sugar per listed serving size, starting in 2013. Most of the cereals analyzed now meet that threshold, but a quarter do not, the study said.

Many cereal makers say the study is misleading on several fronts.

For starters, only two cereals on the group???s ???10 worst??? list are marketed to kids, industry advocates said. Those two are Kellogg???s Apple Jacks and Froot Loops Original. Food firms stopped advertising products with more than 12 grams of sugar to children under age 12 starting in 2006, when the industry adopted its own marketing standards.

Honey Smacks is not marketed to children and seldom eaten by them, said Lisa Sutherland, vice president of nutrition at Kellogg North America. Neither is Wheaties Fuel, said Kirstie Foster, a General Mills spokesman. Its target audience is active male adults, Foster said.

Industry advocates also dismissed the comparisons between cereals and dessert, such as Twinkies with 17.5 grams of sugar and three Chips Ahoy cookies with 11 grams of sugar.
 
I didn't know this was news.....

If fat people read the ingredients, I think they would buy healthier products
 
Yup!

Load the kiddies up with sugar, get them hyper, and then get them prescribed adderall.
 
I didn't know this was news.....

If fat people read the ingredients, I think they would buy healthier products

What's that Denis Leary bit? "They could name a brand of cigarettes 'Tumors' and people would line up around the block to buy them."

Likewise people and food. What, people think donuts and triple cheeseburgers are health foods?
 
Biggest disappointment is allot of breakfast cereals are using labeling like "low fat" & "heart healthy". In reality they are loaded up with cheap processed carbs and sugars making parents think they are doing good and saving time by shoving a bowl in front of their kids face and not frying up an egg or two like they should be doing.
 
Anything kids like ALOT = bad.

My brother used to POUND Captn Crunch like there was no tomorrow.
 
That stuff isn't satiating at all either. I bought a box of Count Chocula before Halloween and ate the entire box in one sitting... uh you know to refeed :dont: .
 
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