{"id":772,"date":"2009-12-09T16:30:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T22:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=772"},"modified":"2009-12-09T16:32:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T22:32:05","slug":"general-mills-to-cut-sugar-in-children%e2%80%99s-cereals-as-sugar-prices-reach-28-year-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=772","title":{"rendered":"General Mills to cut sugar in children’s cereals coincidentally as sugar prices reach 28 year highs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Better go buy a crate of Lucky Charms right now. General Mills just announced they are “…publicly committed to reducing sugar in cereals advertised to children to single-digit grams of sugar per serving.”<\/a><\/p>\n

To put this in perspective, Lucky Charms and Trix both currently have 11 grams of sugar per serving. And they want to knock it down from there to a single digit. The article says “to ensure the cereals maintain their taste, the reductions will continue in a series of smaller steps.”<\/p>\n

So its going to be a bit like quitting smoking, then. Smaller and smaller doses until the cravings are gone.<\/p>\n

A strange coincidence, then, that General Mills decided to be all healthy and concerned for everyone’s welfare right when “tight global supplies sent [sugar’s] world futures prices to at least 28-year highs <\/strong><\/em>with bulk refined values jumping more than 10% last week and sugar users pleading for relief in the form of an “immediate” increase in import quantities.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Uh huh. The 28 year high price of sugar has noooooothing to do with General Mills reducing the sugar in their cereals. Right.<\/p>\n

I wonder how many boxes of Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms <\/span>cereal will fit in my garage?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Better go buy a crate of Lucky Charms right now. General Mills just announced they are “…publicly committed to reducing sugar in cereals advertised to children to single-digit grams of sugar per serving.” To put this in perspective, Lucky Charms … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t