Getting Serious About Cereal

I’d only let my kids eat colourful and cartoonish looking cereals as treats when they were young. It was quite obvious to me that there’d be more nutrition in the cardboard boxes these cereals came in than in the actual cereal. But there were still the “healthy” and “diet” cereals which were good for us, right? Some of them even looked like shredded cardboard, so there must have at least been some fibre in them. The food pyramids in schools used to tell kids to eat mostly carbohydrates (even processed ones like cereal) and we all know that’s changed in the last ten years. Here’s an interesting article about the changes in education, consumers and the truths about breakfast cereals that have seen the go into decline recently.