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There are some things that home truths that are just too hard to swallow. The Irish Times pointed once again today to research which indicates that most breakfast cereals have sugar and salt contents which are just too high. This is not news to me but I still try to deny it. I cannot accept that the most delicious, wonderful food there is can be bad for me. As the poet once said "Tread softly because you tread on my dreams".
I have a selection of about fifteen different cereals in my kitchen cupboard. Every time I go to a new country I scour the supermarket shelves to see if there are any undiscovered cereal gems I can bring back home with me. I eat cereal every day for breakfast and quite often in the evening too as the last snack of the day. If cereal is bad for me I give up altogether. Although my wife is no great cereal eater my kids have caught the bug and also eat it at least twice a day.
The solution for sure is for the manufacturers to bring down the sugar content, gradually reducing the sweet stuff will wean us off the sweet stuff without any cold turkey and we can keep on eating the food of Gods every day. I could live in a world without hot food, just don't touch my Corn Flakes.
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I find Kellogs corn-flakes really salty. For me the food of the Gods is melted cheese on toast covered in baked beans.
I have switched from all those sugary mueslis and crunchy clusters to porridge or special K. If I feel like I deserve a special treat I might add some jam.
Colm,
Special K comes in for especial criticism in the article ;-)
Crunchy muesli is bad so I do try to limit that, actually I tend to eat muesli by Dorset Cereals the most and that is 100% natural without the Alpen sugar dust so my muesli intake is okay. However since All Bran and Special K are also being criticized some of my intake is suspect...
Awww :-(
When we all know that too much sugar, fat and salt is unhealthy, why isn't such food banned outright in favour of food with low levels or none at all? How do the food firms get away with peddling this stuff year after year, especially when it's aimed at children? I'm baffled.
Nick, I definitely think that the sugary kids' cereals are a disaster but even the cereal companies are not pretending that they are a healthy option. Ban them and you end up banning sweets too.
The argument that they are loading Special K and 'healthy' cereals with too much sugar is worrying but the cereal companies do make the valid argument that it is not the amount but the form of calories that counts, high fibre food fills you up after all even if it has too much sugar. There is also the valid argument that any breakfast is better than no breakfast since obesity levels are way lower amongst breakfast eaters for a variety of reasons.
Don't ban my cereals man!
My question is, do these shocking amounts of fat, salt and sugar actually improve the flavour of the foods or could they easily be reduced without anyone noticing? I suspect the latter.
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