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 />“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 />If Honey Nut Cheerios still had a one cup serving size, the sugar content would be in the double digits.<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 />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 />The newest offering, Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheerios, has what looks like sugar flakes on it,<br />but it actually has a lower sugar content than Honey Nut Cheerios.<br />An Environmental Working Group analysis of a number of popular cereals — a report<br />that linked sugary cereals to the “nation’s childhood obesity epidemic” — put Honey Nut Cheerios’s sugar content second only to Fruity Pebbles.
