{"id":41517,"date":"2011-01-26T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=41517"},"modified":"2011-01-25T18:53:30","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T23:53:30","slug":"fruity-pebbles-and-cocoa-pebbles-to-reduce-sugar-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/fruity-pebbles-and-cocoa-pebbles-to-reduce-sugar-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles to Reduce Sugar Content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles to Reduce Sugar Content\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/fruity-pebbles-and-cocoa-pebbles-to-reduce-sugar-content\/\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-41522\" title=\"Fruity and Cocoa Pebbles\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Fruity-and-Cocoa-Pebbles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>Looking back on my childhood, I grew up eating a lot of <strong><a title=\"sugary breakfast foods\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/10-breakfast-foods-with-as-much-sugar-as-a-candy-bar\/\" target=\"_self\">sugary foods for breakfast<\/a><\/strong>. From Pop Tarts to Toaster Strudel to Corn Pops, sugar was a big part of the most important meal of the day for me. Of course, at the time, my mom was just happy that I was eating any kind of breakfast before running out the door to school, but now we know so much more about proper nutrition that it&#8217;s about time some of the major food manufacturers took at look at cereal&#8217;s sugar content.\u00a0Especially cereals that are obviously targeted to children.<\/p>\n<p>Late last year, <strong><a title=\"General Mills reduced sugar in cereals\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/general-mills-to-reduce-sugar-in-breakfast-cereals\/\" target=\"_self\">General Mills reduced the amount of sugar<\/a><\/strong> in its popular cereals Lucky Charms, Trix and Cocoa Puffs. According to The Associated Press, PepsiCo Inc. also launched a new instant oatmeal with 25 percent less sugar. Now you can add another big food manufacturer to the list of reduced-sugar breakfast foods: Post Foods. The company recently told The Associated Press that it will cut the sugar content of its Fruity and Cocoa Pebbles per serving from 11 grams to 9 grams. According to the report, this is in an attempt by all food companies to address consumers&#8217; concerns at the <strong><a title=\"childhood obesity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/childhood-heartburn-another-symptom-of-weight-epidemic\/\" target=\"_self\">growing childhood obesity epidemic<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While I commend the effort to reduce sugar, it still feels like food companies could be doing more. Sure these sugary cereals will have less <strong><a title=\"sugar in your food\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/slideshows\/how-much-sugar-is-in-your-food-1\/the-sugar-content-of-food\/\" target=\"_self\">sugar<\/a><\/strong>, but they still have quite a bit even at the reduced rate, especially when you consider that very few adults or children are probably only eating <strong><a title=\"serving size\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/know-your-portion-sizes\/\" target=\"_self\">one serving<\/a><\/strong> of cereal each morning. Not to mention that these cereals are highly processed and don&#8217;t actually include much fiber or protein, which helps fill your belly up- whether you&#8217;re a kid or not.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think about food manufacturers reducing the sugar content in cereal? Do you think this can help reverse childhood obesity?<\/p>\n<p><strong>image via <a title=\"nutritiondietnews.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nutritiondietnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">nutritiondietnews.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back on my childhood, I grew up eating a lot of sugary foods for breakfast. From Pop Tarts to Toaster Strudel to Corn Pops, sugar was a big part of the most important meal of the day for me. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/fruity-pebbles-and-cocoa-pebbles-to-reduce-sugar-content\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1367,3695],"tags":[327,7495,31,279],"class_list":["post-41517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-health","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-cereal","tag-fruity-pebbles","tag-health-news","tag-sugar"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41517"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41524,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41517\/revisions\/41524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}