This week the Environmental Working Group (EWG) released the results of its most recent analysis of over 1500 adult and kid cereals. The verdict? Kids’ cereal is sugarier than it was just a few years ago. Of the 1,556 cereals analyzed, 181 were marketed for children and “prone to extreme sweetening.” On average, children’s cereals contained 40% more sugar than adults’ cereals. And the EWG points out, kids are not likely to eat just one serving for breakfast. “Because the ‘serving’ size given on the label does not reflect what Americans actually consume,” they write, “people who eat sweetened cereal every day can wind up with much higher sugar intakes.”
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