Here's a shocking report:  If your kids are eating cereal for breakfast, they might be eating candy.  SOMEONE is buying this stuff.. and we wonder why we have a problem with childhood obesity and early onset diabetes.

The 10 cereals with the highest sugar content (by percentage weight) are:

    •    Kellogg's Honey Smacks (55.6%)
    •    Post Golden Crisp (51.9%)
    •    Kellogg's Froot Loops Marshmallow (48.3%)
    •    Quaker Oats Cap'n Crunch's OOPS! All Berries (46.9%)
    •    Quaker Oats Cap'n Crunch Original (44.4%)
    •    Quaker Oats Oh!s (44.4%)
    •    Kellogg's Smorz (43.3%)
    •    Kellogg's Apple Jacks (42.9%)
    •    Quaker Oats Cap'n Crunch's Crunch Berries (42.3%)
    •    Kellogg's Froot Loops Original (41.4%)

The Quaker Oats people said this in response to Capt'N Crunch being on the list:

"While it's not marketed as a health product, it does include essential vitamins and minerals and offers consumers a low-fat breakfast option when paired with low-fat milk and a serving of fruit."
Have you ever heard such a load of CR@P?

One cup of three different cereals -- Honey Smacks, Golden Crisp, and General Mills Wheaties Fuel -- contains more sugar than a Hostess Twinkie (18 grams). And one cup of 44 of the cereals contains more sugar than three Chips Ahoy! cookies (11 grams).

To help guide consumers to cereals that do meet the standards, the EWG listed products that meet all criteria and also do not contain artificial flavors, colors, and artificial sweeteners:
    •    Ambrosial Granola: Athenian Harvest Muesli
    •    Go Raw: Live Granola, Live Chocolate Granola, and Simple Granola
    •    Grandy Oats: Mainely Maple Granola, Cashew Raisin Granola, and Swiss Style Muesli
    •    Kaia Foods: Buckwheat Granola Dates & Spices and Buckwheat Granola Raisin Cinnamon
    •    Laughing Giraffe: Cranberry Orange Granola
    •    Lydia's Organics: Apricot Sun, Berry Good, Grainless Apple, Sprouted Cinnamon, and Vanilla Crunch
    •    Nature's Path Organic: Optimum Banana Almond, Optimum Cranberry Ginger, Corn Puffs, Kamut Puffs, Millet Puffs, and Rice Puffs

EWG also provided a list of big-brand cereals (both children's and nonchildren's) that meet all of the federal nutrition guidelines and can be found easily, but may contain ingredients that are genetically modified or grown with pesticides:

    •    Kellogg's Mini-Wheats: Unfrosted Bite-Size, Frosted Big Bite, Frosted Bite-Size, Frosted Little Bite
    •    General Mills Cheerios Original and Kix Original (these two meet the 2016 sodium guideline but not the final guideline for 2021)
    •    Post Shredded Wheat (all varieties), Grape-Nuts Flakes, Bran Flakes, and Honey Bunches of Oats with Vanilla Bunches (the latter three meet the 2016 sodium guideline but not the final guideline)
    •    Quaker Oats Oatmeal Squares Cinnamon (this meets the 2016 sodium guideline but not the final guideline)