My little girl had to compile this list for her science homework, we could't find it online so we traipsed down to the supermarket and compiled it ourselves. I'll post it here to save next year's parents* the hassle:
Scott's Porage Oats - 1g
Weetabix - 4.4g
Cornflakes - 8g
Rice Krispies - 10g
Shreddies - 14.9g
Weetabix Chocolate - 15.9g
All Bran Flakes - 18g
Rice Krispies Multigrain Shapes - 18g
All Bran Golden Crunch - 21g
Cheerios - 21.5g
Fruit and Fibre - 24g
Chocolate Cheerios - 24.9g
Froot Loops - 25g
Honey Shreddies - 27g
Coco Pops Coco Rocks - 27g
Krave - 29g
Golden Nuggets - 30.3g
Curiously Cinnamon - 32.1g
Cookie Crisps - 34.5g
Sugar Puffs - 35g
Crunchy Nut - 35g
Frosties - 37g
Thank you everybody who posted additional ones in the comments.
* Top tips to avoid accusations of plagiarism: re-arrange the list in alphabetical order, random order or from highest to lowest; miss off a couple; add one or two further items from cereals you've got at home or Google around a bit; try alternative spellings (like "Porridge", a common mistake); or simply change some of the numbers a bit and so on.
Clearly, you'll also have to check whether any of those breakfast cereals have been banned in the meantime.
Saturday, 12 January 2013
Sugar per 100g serving of breakfast cereal
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12 comments:
no one eats weetabix or porridge without a couple of spoonfuls on top. that little proviso should be added to your daughters homework for an A.
"Porridge" is only a mistake if it is Scott's of course. It is in fact the mist usual spelling. I have a packet of Tesco Scottish Porridge Oats right here. Interestingly, they contain 1.5g sugar per 100g.
BJ, indeedy. Or don't bother and have a cup of coffee and a cigarette, no sugar at all.
AC, that's what I meant. You might as well argue that "Coco Pops" should be spelled "Cocoa Pops".
Sugar Puffs are quite high in sugar content, I didn't know that ;-)
All Bran Golden Crunch - 21g - no need to add sugar.
I'm a bit surprised about the sugar content of some of the supposedly-healthy options such as all bran flakes. Conversely Weetabix Chocolate seems low in sugar for a chocolatey cereal!
Apparently the reason that cereals are so popular is that no matter what the "sugar" content is, the wheat ones are such simple carbs that they behave like sugar anyway.
BE
TBF, amazing what they learn nowadays, eh?
BE, ta, I have added to the list.
Cookie Crisp 34.5g
Froot Loops 25g
Fruit and Fibre 24g
Chocolate Cheerios 24.9g
Crunchy nut 35g
Ash, thanks.
"Apparently the reason that cereals are so popular is that no matter what the "sugar" content is, the wheat ones are such simple carbs that they behave like sugar anyway."
I suppose it depends on what you mean by "sugar". The muesli I eat says it "contains no added sugar" and doesn't list sugar in the ingredients, yet the nutrition box say it contains 16% "sugars". I wonder if that's the raisins.
B, yes it is.
But raisins are fruit and fruit is good for you, wise men in the government say that you should eat five a day of them, so how come they contain sugar which those same wise men in the government say you shouldn't eat?
B, yes, there is righteous sugar and evil sugar, the righteous stuff is found in fruit and the Americans grow the evil stuff in facrtories powered by corn starch or something. One of them's fructose and the other is glucose, but I can't remember which is which.
Then there's also dextrose and ambidextrous.
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