1. Home Brand Cocoa Puffs 44.0%
2. Kelloggs Froot Loops 41.7%
3. Kelloggs Frosties 41.3%
4. Kelloggs All Bran Wheat Flakes Honey Almond 39.0%
5. Kelloggs Cocoa Pops 36.7%
6. Uncle Tobys Oats Temptations Sultanas, Apples & Honey 34.0%
7. Uncle Tobys Plus Sultanas 'n Bran 32.4%
8. Kelloggs Nutrigrain & Cocoa Pops Chex 32.0%
9. Nestlé Nesquick, Kelloggs Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes 31.7%
10. Nestlé Milo, 31.3% (which they fraudulently promote as a healthy drink!)
11 Coles Frooty Rings, 100 Healthy Calories Hi-Lite Cereal 31.3%
The Glycemic Index — www.glycemicindex.com
Until the truth about refined sugar and artificial sweeteners is properly acknowledged, the scourge of sugar will continue to worsen. Governments everywhere will struggle to cope with and pay for all the diseases caused by the consumption of refined sugar and artificial sweeteners. Fad diets, drugs, and radical surgery are not the answer as is often claimed; neither is exercise alone. Good nutrition is where the change must start, and it needs to start with young women of child bearing age. Young men also need to be involved. If this can be achieved, there would be a significant reduction of sugar related diseases and soaring medical costs, within one generation.
Meanwhile, there are simple measures every parent or person can take. To start, read the small ingredients section listed on all food labels, including products in health food stores. Ignore the hype on the front of labels and AVOID all products containing sugar, high fructose corn syrup, dextrose, sucrose, refined flour, rice and potato powder/starch, and even cane juice, which is yet another form of sugar. Also AVOID products containing damaged (highly refined, GM) oils/fats, such as canola, soy, corn, peanut, cotton seed, and margarine), which are endocrine disruptors. Search for quality products that are made without refined sugar/carbohydrates, artificial sweeteners, and/or damaged oils/fats. Quality products and meals do not need the addition of sugar to enhance flavor.
Keep in mind that most food labels are deceiving. They say “natural,” yet the product may contain refined sugar. Refined sugar is far from natural and should NOT be classified as such. Regulators need to put a stop to this fraud. Another misconception is that “low fat” products are healthier. However these products often have additional sugar or artificial sweeteners added to them.
If you see sugar or artificial sweetener (e.g. HFCS) in the ingredients section of a product you like, call the company and suggest, as a consumer, that they make their product healthier without the use of refined sugar or artificial sweeteners. Provide them with healthier alternatives listed below. Provide feedback to hotels and airlines, whose meals are generally unhealthy and full of sugar and chemicals.
Except for a few small, costly restaurants and cafés, healthy eat-out or take-away meals are not easy to find. Cooking schools, chefs, cooks, TV cooking shows, recipes in magazines and cook books, cafes, chain food outlets, school, and hospital cafeterias are all part of the problem because they know little if anything about good nutrition. Only by public demand will this situation improve.