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Mom, I Want Dessert For Breakfast This Morning

Mom, I Want Dessert for Breakfast 

By Elton Camp 

What would you do if your child should say, 
“For breakfast, I want to eat a Twinkie today” 
“Nope, I can’t give you such a breakfast as that. 
It’s got too much sugar and will make you fat.” 

But here’s a fact that parents may shock and abhor 
Just one cup of Honey Smacks has got even more 
In writing more rhymes, now time I won’t waste 
Here are some facts parents might copy and paste: 

The 10 cereals with the highest sugar content (by percentage weight) are: 

· Kellogg's Honey Smacks (55.6%) 
· Post Golden Crisp (51.9%) 
· Kellogg's Froot Loops Marshmallow (48.3%) 
· Quaker Oats Cap'n Crunch's OOPS! All Berries (46.9%) 
· Quaker Oats Cap'n Crunch Original (44.4%) 
· Quaker Oats Oh!s (44.4%) 
· Kellogg's Smorz (43.3%) 
· Kellogg's Apple Jacks (42.9%) 
· Quaker Oats Cap'n Crunch's Crunch Berries (42.3%) 
· Kellogg's Froot Loops Original (41.4%) 

The following cereals meet federal nutritional guidelines and are readily available: 

Kellogg's Mini-Wheats: Unfrosted Bite-Size, Rosted Big Bite, Frosted 
Bite-Size, Frosted Little Bite 
·· General Mills Cheerios Original and Kix Original 
· Post Shredded Wheat (all varieties), Grape-Nuts Flakes, Bran Flakes, and 
Honey Bunches of Oats with Vanilla Bunches 
· Quaker Oats Oatmeal Squares Cinnamon 

(This is far different from what I usually post, but I feel it's important enough to share from the news. This is limited to the single issue of sugar content in breakfast cereals and speaks only of readily available boxed cereals. There are many other good choices for breakfast, such a fruit and oatmeal. Sodium is also a problem with many boxed cereals. We are having Morning Star Farms non-meat sausage, egg whites, grits, whole wheat toast, cranberry juice (no sugar added) and coffee for our breakfast this morning.)

Copyright © Elton Camp | Year Posted 2011

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