Depending on the news source, this announcement from the FDA, which is now open to comment, points out the obvious about high sugar sugar cereals…they are not Nutritious. Raisin Bran, Honey Nut Cheerios, Corn Flakes, Honey Bunches of Oats, Frosted Mini Wheats, and Special K no longer qualify as healthy under the agency's new definition, CNBC reports.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/11/fda...ot-qualify.html

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nu...lue/ar-AA12VR0s

FDA Says These Cereals Are No Longer Healthy
Considered to once be a healthy option for breakfast, the FDA now says, nope.
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They were never healthy even with yucky low-fat milk!

Wow!!!!

Thank goodness for DANDR as with that information 20 years ago I was able to get my young kids off that junk.

Until I found a bag of sugar coated mini wheats in my son's shirt draw yesterday. A HUGE bag, like 2 gal size!!!! Where did I go wrong.....oh wait, they are teenagers!!!

and their "fortification" with vitamins & minerals. It would probably be healthier to eat the box and pop a daily vitamin/mineral supplement.

If Corn Flakes & Special K make the list with half to 1/3 the amount of sugar as some of the others on the list, there must be a lot more than 7 that have been or should be stripped of their labels, like "Heart Healthy" Froot Loops. The statement from the FDA implies that it is the public's fault for choosing unhealthy foods full of ingredients the government subsidizes, not the fault of the FDA, ADA etc. that put "healthy" on the labels.

Yes. Do YOUR job and we'll do ours.

But still, any progress against the Vegan Lobby is progress. Which is kind of how I now see the vast Corporate Machine that sees food and drugs as something we CONSUME like streaming television or cupholders in our vehicles.

When it is life itself.

Take note of the fact that it's not just the sugar content that relegates those cereals to "unhealthy" status:



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.