Dessert, it's not just for after dinner anymore. So, for example, an item could contain corn syrup, cane sugar, and fructose in seemingly minor quantities toward the bottom of the list - but if you combined them together in a general group of "sugar," they quickly move to the top.ħ. But, ingredient groups aren't required to be listed together.
Many people know that ingredients are listed in order from most to least and we'll look to see where, say, sugars or fats are listed in the order. Kellogg's Apple Jacks: Sugar by weight: 42.9%. Many have noted that rapidly increasing rates of obesity and type-2 diabetes in today's children will lead them to be the first generation in American history to have shorter life-spans than their parents! Is it time yet to set a better example?Ĩ. About one in five American children are obese, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has reported that childhood obesity has tripled over the past 30 years.
Quaker Oats Cap'n Crunch's Crunch Berries: Sugar by weight: 42.3%. Kids should not be eating sugar for breakfast. No public health agency has anywhere near the education budget equivalent to that spent on a single cereal. Noted NYU nutrition professor Marion Nestle puts it best: "Cereal companies have spent fortunes on convincing parents that a kid's breakfast means cereal, and that sugary cereals are fun, benign, and all kids will eat," she said, "The cereals on the EWG highest-sugar list are among the most profitable for their makers, who back up their investment with advertising budgets of $20 million a year or more. These loops get their "frootiness" from red 40, blue 2, yellow 6, and blue 1- very little actual fruit in the forecast. There's a reason they use the term "Froot" rather than Fruit. Kellogg's Froot Loops Original: Sugar by weight: 41.4%. We're all in it together, and until awareness reaches greater heights and hits us harder, this nation is going to just keep getting fatter.ġ0. And do read on, even if you don't have children at home, you may be a grandparent, an aunt or uncle, or a neighbor of children. So hats off to EWG for tackling this sticky situation and bringing awareness to what seems nearly criminal.Īnd with that said, here are the top ten to avoid based on their sugar content by weight, number one being the worst of all. Tens of billions of dollars are spent on brainwashing us into wanting and eating food that is half sugar, in the face of quickly dwindling health. It's data like this which makes it impossible to ignore how little regard big food manufacturers have for our well being. Imagine eating one cup of plain oatmeal, and a half a cup of sugar on the side. Adults commonly have these cereals in their cupboards for use as quick snacks. But it's not just children that eat this junk. Holy cow, is it any wonder that obesity has reached epidemic proportions?Ī wonderful website, Care2, posted this information: EWG explains that three out of four children's cereals are more than 1/4 sugar by weight, with the worst cereals exceeding 1/2 of their weight in sugar.
One of my favorite organizations, Environmental Working Group (EWG), reviewed 84 popular brands of children's breakfast cereal and found that the most dastardly of the bunch packs more sugar than a Twinkie, while the rest of the wretches have more sugar than three chocolate chip cookies. You probably wouldn't eat a Hostess Twinkie or Chips Ahoy cookies for breakfast, but when it comes to sugar and chemical content of many of today's processed breakfast cereals, there's not much difference.
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