1/6/2024 0 Comments Sugar crisp cereal![]() This is definitely some progress, but considering it is still almost half of a child’s whole sugar allowance, it’s nowhere near a healthy treat – even if eaten occasionally. Where once Coco Pops used 62.5% of a child’s daily allowance of sugar, the new formula still uses 46.25%. Out of the most popular brands, these five stood out to be some of the worst….ĭespite Coco Pop’s pledge to reduce sugar, the 30% drop in sugar doesn’t seem to make this popular cereal too much healthier. What about the most popular cereal brands? Tesco Choco Snaps come in fifth, with their version of chocolate rice cereal seeming to even outdo the old recipe of Coco Pops in daily allowance usage of sugar, hitting 65.15%. ![]() While cereals that aren’t chocolate filled and nutty seem like they would be less healthy than light flakes, it turns out that 3 Kit Kats worth of sugar is hiding in every small bowl of frosted flakes. Sainsbury’s own brand Frosted Flakes comes in fourth, using up a hefty 68.7% of your child’s daily allowance, packing a sweet punch of 4.05 tea spoons of sugar per bowl. With the same sugar content as a bowl of Crunchy Nut, you could serve 4.13 teaspoons of sugar or almost 3 Kit Kats for the same sugary hit. With 4.21 teaspoons of sugar in each small bowl, it is the same as giving your child almost 5 and half Snickers bars every week.Ĭrunchy Nut cornflakes are also an offender with 68.75% of your child’s daily sugar allowance being used by one small bowl. Morrisons Choco Pillows are the second worst of our survey, at 70.13% of a child’s recommended allowance of daily sugar in one bowl. Own brand cereals, while cheaper, aren’t necessarily better in terms of sugar. Giving your child a bowl of Frosties each morning is like giving your child an extra 21 fingers of Kit Kat per week! With 17.1g of sugar in every bowl, that’s the equivalent of 4.26 teaspoons of sugar, 161ml of Coca Cola (almost half a 330ml can!) or just over 3 fingers of Kit Kat. What are the most sugary cereals?Ī small 30g bowl of Frosties are 71.25% of a child’s daily allowance of sugar, which most children are likely to go over. This amounts to only a few spoonful’s for your child’s brekky, realistically we can anticipate sugar consumption to be much higher. The sugar amounts we found are based on the very modest recommended serving sizes of 30g with 125ml of semi-skimmed milk (the milk itself contains 6g of sugar). None of the cereals were below 25% of the recommended child’s sugar allowance with lowest being 27%. ![]() Out of the 99 boxes we looked at, 56% of those tested went above 50% of the daily recommended sugar intake for a child. We researched 99 of the most popular cereals from big names such as Nestlé and Kellogg’s, as well as supermarket-own equivalents, so you can see which cereals are the least healthy. Our research, unfortunately, was very concerning…ĭespite big name cereal brands pledging to reduce sugar back in 2017, the amount of sugar in your child’s cereals is shocking. With the recent news that Kellogg’s have recently cut sugar in Coco Pops, we had high hopes. So, we decided to look into the sugar levels in kid’s cereals to help you make the healthiest choices for your child’s morning meal. Let’s find out where your kid’s favorite cereal ranks.As a family-run business, Sinks-Taps knows the importance of having a healthy selection of food in the kitchen. When it comes to dietary guidelines, these options certainly aren’t your allies. Pulling from that - as well as roundup of the 10 worst children’s cereals, by the Environmental Working Group from 2011 (in 2014, its most recent update, the group noted it found “not one on the 2011 ‘worst’ list had lowered its sugar content over the last three years”) – we created our own top 10 list of offenders, based on sheer percentages of sugar. Lucky for families, the Harvard School of Public Health‘s Breakfast Cereal Sugar Content List did a lot of the dirty detective work, detailing dozens of popular brands. Wondering just which of those colorful and cleverly named cereals have the most sugar? So were we. And in some cases, the truth is enough to turn your stomach – or at least make you really consider breaking the sugar habit in your family. But while this stuff makes mealtime fun, parents, on the other hand, are on to this sweet scheme. Bright and colorful, speckled with marshmallows or cocoa (or both) and, of course, hawked by fun characters: What’s not for kids to love when it comes to brand-name cereals? Plenty, when it comes to the small matter of which cereals have the most sugar.īreakfast matters, after all.
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