Some cereals sold by health food stores may be good for you if they avoid two ingredients typically found in the commercially-prepared cereals from the supermarket. Most Breakfast Cereals are far from being truly nutritious, especially the brands designed to appeal to kids.
The first “bad” ingredient is Added Sugar:
According to Jennifer L. Harris, lead researcher at Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, children get a teaspoon of sugar with every 3 teaspoons of the typical cereal marketed to them.
Many adult cereals contain just as much sugar per cup, giving you up to 100 extra calories in your breakfast. The most common sweetener in cereals is high-fructose corn syrup, which, according to Princeton University professor Bart Hoebel, is more likely to cause obesity than table sugar. To reduce your sugar intake, opt for cereals with less than 10 percent of their calories coming from sugar, preferably without HFCS.
Continue reading on the next page to learn about the other common unhealthy ingredient in popular breakfast cereals …
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