Breakfast is supposed to be the most important meal of the day, but if your kids are eating a toxic cereal they might be missing the point (and the nutrients)! Learn all about the most toxic cereals on the market, and which ones you should add to your grocery cart instead to give your kids a better start to their day from the Mamavation blog!
“When we think of kids’ breakfast in America, we tend to think of the icons we grew up with: Cap’n Crunch, Tony the Tiger and Count Dracula. This kind of marketing has encouraged kids to demand cereal loaded with sugar and has also eroded our concept of what comprises a healthy breakfast. Cold cereals can dominate an entire aisle in your supermarket, but what’s hiding in those cereals can be doing damage to your child.
Like our expose on peanut butter and what’s really in your orange juice, Mamavation took a look at some of the most toxic ingredients hiding in your child’s breakfast cereal:
TOXIC INGREDIENTS IN YOUR KID’S CEREAL
- Sugar: Many kids’ cereals are high in sugar or high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), which is also called corn syrup or corn sugar. Generally, if you see “sugar” of any kind in non-organic or GMO cereal, very likely it’s HFCS.
- GMOs: Most conventional cereals contain sugar and corn made from GMO products. Note that these same manufacturers create GMO free cereals for distribution overseas.” Keep reading…
Top 10 Toxic Kid Cereals to Avoid At All Costs
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