Originally Posted by
Santaria
Cereal is bad for you; all cereal. I have eaten Steel cut oatmeal for years because of the odd weight gain and bloating I noticed from eating even Special K.
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Originally Posted by
Jaytron
What cereal were you eating?
Common breakfast cereals:
- Corn Flakes
- Rice Crispies
- Cinnamon Toast Crunch (really bad)
- Sugar Smacks (even worse)
- etc...
WARNING: The Following Breakfast Cereals Contain More Sugar Than A Twinkie
Three cereals — Kellogg's Honey Smacks, Post Golden Crisp, and General Mills Wheaties Fuel—contain more sugar than a Hostess Twinkie.
A shocking 75% of cereals did not meet the voluntary nutritional guidelines proposed by the International Working Group, a federal advisory board responsible for foods marketed to children.
The IWG recommends that children's cereal have no more than 26% sugar by weight. Most of the breakfast cereals that made EWG's worst list exceed the government's proposed limit by nearly double.
1. Kellogg's Honey Smacks—55% sugar
2. Post Golden Crisp—51.9% sugar
3. Kellogg's Froot Loops Marshmallow—48.3% sugar
4. Quaker Oats Cap'n Crunch's OOPS! All Berries—46.9% sugar
5. Quaker Oats Cap'n Crunch Original—44.4% sugar
6. Quaker Oats Oh!s—44.4% sugar
7. Kellogg's Smorz—43.3% sugar
8. Kellogg's Apple Jacks —42.9% sugar
9. Quaker Oats Cap'n Crunch's Crunch Berries—42.3% sugar
10. Kellogg's Froot Loops Original—41.4% sugar
http://www.businessinsider.com/child...-group-2011-12