Are Honey Nut Cheerios Healthy? We Look Inside the Box<br />General Mills refers to cereals like Honey Nut Cheerios as “presweetened” — putting<br />the sugar, brown sugar and honey into your cereal so you don’t have to.<br />I found a box from 2003 that showed the serving size of Honey Nut Cheerios to be one cup, weighing 30 grams and having 11 grams of sugars.<br />“You mentioned that three of the top six ingredients in Honey Nut Cheerios are sugar, brown sugar<br />and honey,” Mike Siemienas, a spokesman for the company, wrote in a statement.<br />It appears that at some point in the last 10 or 15 years, General Mills tweaked the ingredients of Honey Nut Cheerios in a way<br />that lowered the overall weight per serving, which had the effect of helping lower the stated sugar content.<br />“We’ve been saying for years that Honey Nut Cheerios has more sugar than honey<br />and more salt than nuts, in fact it’s got no nuts at all, it’s just got almond flavor.”<br />The center has quarreled with General Mills before.<br />If Honey Nut Cheerios still had a one cup serving size, the sugar content would be in the double digits.
