Smorz cereal target1/1/2023 ![]() More than three-quarters of children’s cereals do not meet the federal Interagency Working Group’s proposed nutrition guidelines for 2016. Quaker Oats Cap’n Crunch’s Crunch BerriesĮWG points out that the sugar content in these dessert-like cereals is much greater than federal guidelines recommend: Quaker Oats Cap’n Crunch’s OOPS! All Berries The top 10 worst, ranked by percent sugar by weight: 1 And they aren’t the only ones: EWG found that three of the most popular kids’ cereals (Kellogg’s Honey Smacks, Post Golden Crisp, and General Mills Wheaties Fuel) contain more sugar per serving by weight than a Twinkie, and 44 others have as much sugar as three Chips Ahoy cookies. In case you couldn’t tell from their names, those cereals pack in a lot of sugar (or corn syrup, but as I’ve said before, basically same diff). But boy was I wrong! In perusing a new report on sugar cereals from the Environmental Working Group (EWG), I learned about many modern cereals my seven-year-old self would have been clamoring for, including Smorz, Froot Loops Marshmallows, and Cap’n Crunch’s OOPS! All Berries. I’d always kind of thought that the demise of Ice Cream Cones Cereal proved that even stressed-out parents wouldn’t go for such an unapologetic nutritional disaster. Apparently, it didn’t make it into very many other shopping carts either: According to Wikipedia, it lasted for only a few months in 1987. That name really tickled Mom, the sheer audacity of it. It wasn’t even trying to sound healthy! Needless to say, Ice Cream Cones never made it into our shopping cart. SMORZ CEREAL TARGET FREEFight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Īs a kid, I once begged my mom for a product called Ice Cream Cones cereal. ![]()
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