Here are the EWG study’s top 10 sugar-bomb kids’ cereals, ranked by percent
weight in sugar:

  1. Kellogg’s Honey Smacks: 55.6% sugar
  2. Post Golden Crisp: 51.9% sugar
  3. Kellogg’s Froot Loops Marshmallow:  48.3% sugar
  4. Quaker Oats Cap’n Crunch’s OOPS! All Berries: 46.9% sugar
  5. Quaker Oats Cap’n Crunch Original:  44.4%  sugar
  6. Quaker Oats Oh!s: 44.4% sugar
  7. Kellogg’s Smorz:  43.3%  sugar
  8. Kellogg’s Apple Jacks: 42.9% sugar
  9. Quaker Oats Cap’n Crunch’s Crunch Berries: 42.3% sugar
  10. Kellogg’s Froot Loops Original: 41.4% sugar

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So what cereals actually made the cut? These kid-friendly choices passed
health guidelines for sugar, sodium, saturated fat and whole grain content:

  • Kellogg’s Mini Wheats: Unfrosted bite-size, Frosted Big Bite, Frosted
    Bite-Size, Frosted Little Bite
  • General Mills Cheerios Original
  • General Mills Kix Original

The following big-name cereals aren’t considered kids’ cereals, but still
might be good picks for the family breakfast table:

  • Post Shredded Wheat (all varieties)
  • Post Grape-Nuts Flakes
  • Quaker Oats Oatmeal Squares Cinnamon
  • Post Bran Flakes
  • Post Honey Bunches of Oats with Vanilla Bunches

More Ready-to-Eat Foods

And if you really want to get high health marks, the study named the
following 7 brands and flavors the best cereals. In addition to meeting
nutritional guidelines, they’re also free of pesticides and genetically modified
ingredients. Just don’t tell your tot that he’s eating something called
“Buckwheat Granola Dates & Spices”!

  • 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.

Are your kids eating these cereals.......are you?