Friday Favorites: Kids’ Breakfast Cereals as Nutritional Façade

Aug 11, 2023

Plastering front-of-package nutrient claims on cereal boxes is an attempt to distract from the incongruity of feeding our children multicolored marshmallows for breakfast.

I was invited to testify as an expert witness in a case against sugary cereal companies (donating my fee, of course), and this extended video series is a result of some of the research I did into those cases. Here are some of the others:

· The Worst Food for Tooth Decay (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-w…)

· Which Is a Better Breakfast: Cereal or Oatmeal? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/whic…)

· A Political Lesson on the Power of the Food Industry (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/a-po…)

· The Worst Food for Tooth Decay (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-…)

· Are Fortified Kids’ Breakfast Cereals Healthy or Just Candy? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Are-F…)

· Ochratoxin in Breakfast Cereals (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/ochr…) Lots of other food industry videos, too:

· Big Sugar Takes on the World Health Organization (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/big-…)

· Food Industry Funded Research Bias (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/food…)

· Big Food Using the Tobacco Industry Playbook (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/big-…)

· Would Taxing Unhealthy Foods Improve Public Health? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/woul…)

· The Food Industry Wants the Public Confused About Nutrition (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/The-…)

· Sugar Industry Attempts to Manipulate the Science (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/sugar…)

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