Fri, Oct-21-22, 08:31
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Plan: Atkins-ish (hypoglycemia)
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Progress: 50%
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Take note of the fact that it's not just the sugar content that relegates those cereals to "unhealthy" status:
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The agency used cereal as an example to detail the new criteria.
For a healthy stamp from the FDA, cereals have to contain three-fourth ounces of whole grains, and no more than 1 gram of saturated fat, 230 milligrams of sodium and 2.5 grams of added sugars.
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To qualify for the healthy status, a cereal needs to meet ALL of those criteria.
Most of those cereals fit the criteria for required whole grains, and limited sat fat.
The sweet ones ended up on that list because of their added sugar content, but Corn Flakes and Special K also ended up on that list because of the sodium content, which for dry cereal needs to be under 240mg/serving - corn flakes has 300mg sodium/serving, Special K has 270mg sodium/serving.
Not sure how they'll "fix" that to get back on the healthy list, since you know they're going to do whatever it takes. They could probably get away with replacing some of the sodium with potassium chloride though since KCl has a salty (but bitter) flavor.
They're going to need to play with the sweeteners in order to get back under the 2/5mg added sugars too, so perhaps they'll just switch to enough artificial sweeteners make it slightly sweeter to help counteract the bitterness of the KCl.
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