Breakfast Cereal

Breakfast cereals are ultra-processed foods, even when marketed as heart healthy, whole grain, or high fibre. Ultra-processed food including cereal does not resemble food and does not behave in the body the way real food does. Cereals marketed as healthy, including Raisin Bran and Cheerios, list sugar as their second ingredient. Corn Pops contains zero dietary fiber despite whole grain marketing language. The fiber claim on cereal boxes is misleading because approximately one gram of fiber per serving provides no meaningful buffering of the carbohydrate load. Finding a breakfast cereal without significant added sugar is extremely difficult. Kellogg's original cereal formulations used fiber extracts with minimal added sugar and reportedly aided digestive regularity. Without fibre to buffer the glycemic response, cereal's blood sugar impact is immediate and severe. The primary ingredient in typical puffed-rice cereals is rice flour, a starch not counted as sugar on labels despite its high glycemic impact. Many commercial cereals are deliberately formulated to be very high in sugar. Kellogg's recalled 28 million boxes of four cereals because chemicals were leaching from the packaging…