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A Teaspoon Guide to US
Breakfast Cereals
In Sweet Poison, I set out five golden rules for people wanting to avoid
fructose in their diet. Rule #4 is ‘Watch out for breakfast’. I say in the book
that because many breakfast cereals are prepackaged, it’s very hard to know
how much sugar you are really eating.
The following lists set out the biggest brand cereals on sale in the US that
have the least sugar (the Best 10), those that have the most sugar (the Worst
10) and a complete listing of all of them. The complete listing also includes a
handy teaspoon reckoner so you can see how many spoonfuls of sugar you
will get in a standard serve of that cereal.
The Best 10
Variations on unlfavoured Oats, Grits and Wheat are the way to go for a low sugar breakfast,
provided of course you don’t add the sugar (or honey) yourself.
The Worst 10
The usual suspects fill-up the list of cereals with the highest amount of sugar. One small
bowl (1¾oz or 50g) of Mom’s Best Naturals Honey-ful Wheat will deliver six and a half
teaspoons of sugar. Whenever you see Honey, Marshmallows or Sultanas in the name of a
cereal (or even on the label), it’s usually a good idea to carefully check the sugar content.
Since the sugar in cereals is either added table sugar, high fructose corn syrup or fruit sugar,
all of which are half (or more) fructose (which is the same as the sugar in your cupboard), I
have not adjusted the sugar quantities which appear on the labels.
Better Oats
4.1 Oat Revolution Apples & Cinnamon 34.3%
Cascadian Farm
3.5 Cinnamon Crunch 29.6%
Cheerios
4.4 Cheerios Apple Cinnamon 36.7%
Chex
Fiber One
0.0 Fiber One 0.0%
General Mills
3.0 Basic 4 25.5%
Kashi
1.0 7 Whole Grain Flakes 8.0%
Kellogg’s
3.2 All-Bran Bran Buds 26.7%
Kix
1.2 Original 10.0%
Kretschmer
2.6 Wheat Germ Honey Crunch 21.4%
Lucky Charms
4.9 Original 40.7%
Malt-O-Meal
5.8 Apple Zings 48.5%
Nature’s Path
2.4 Amazon Frosted Flakes 20.0%
Post
4.3 Alpha-Bits 35.7%
Quaker
3.5 Breakfast Cookies Oatmeal Chocolate Chip 29.2%
Sunbelt
3.7 Granola Cereals Fruit & Nut 30.9%
Total
2.0 Total 16.7%
Weetabix
1.7 Alpen No Sugar Added 14.5%