EXPERTS: LOWER-SUGAR CEREAL NO ADVANTAGE
Could this be the end of cereal aisle showdowns between parents and
sweet-toothed tots?
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/diet.fitnes...s.ap/index.html
I have a big desire to get my kids to eat healthy unsweetened cereal. My parents always gave me unsweetened cereal even though I wanted sweetened cereal. But my wife feeds them in the morning and already started putting sugar in the healthy cereals I buy them. Sugar in chex, corn flakes, wheaties, kixs, and any other healthy cereal I get. Sigh, I wish she wouldn't have started that, now they don't like it plain.
I have found that most cereals because they are artificially created are bad. The best thing is fresh fruits and real foods like eggs, bread, oats and so on. If one must indulge in cereal then I would suggest oatmeal which contains the strength of champions. Children can only eat and know what to eat based on what we give them, we must ensure that we are not giving them what they want just to keep them quiet.
I feel they are taking advantage of people by marketing these foods as they do. They know that parents are concerned about the amount of sugar they give their children so they make a lower sugar version. So, naturally, the parent thinks it must be healthier. Turns out, it isn't at all better. Is just as fattening and has all the other bad stuff. It isn't the sugar alone that makes these cereals less than healthy.
I, personally, don't worry about it. I buy what tastes good, but I don't like the attempt at deception.
What can I say people, my favourite is Cocoa Pebbles and has lots of sugar but doesn't taste good?. I know it is not healthy at all, specially for kids but it does taste good and I rather it over oats, corn flakes or other unsweetened cereal.
Cereal must have sugar in it. Have you ever eaten oats on its own with no milk or sugar, just water? If you have and liked it then you could probably go for unsweetened cereal. Even the regular Corn Flakes or Special K have sugar too but its not as much as the kiddie varieties, those things are loaded!
Exposure to sugary breakfast cereal advertising directly influences children's diets. Laboratory studies have shown that kids will request and prefer brands they have seen recently advertised on TV. A new naturalistic study bridges the gap between lab studies and a real world setting, demonstrating that kids who were exposed to TV ads for high-sugar cereals aired during the programs they watched were more likely to subsequently eat the brands of cereals they had seen advertised. Source 1v.