{"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&#8217;s cereals coincidentally as sugar prices reach 28 year highs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Better go buy a crate of Lucky Charms right now. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodbusinessnews.net\/News\/News%20Home\/Todays%20News\/2009\/12\/General%20Mills%20to%20cut%20sugar%20in%20childrens%20cereals.aspx\" target=\"_self\">General Mills just announced they are &#8220;&#8230;publicly committed to reducing sugar in cereals advertised to children to single-digit grams of sugar per serving.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;to ensure the cereals maintain their taste, the reductions will continue in a series of smaller steps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So its going to be a bit like quitting smoking, then. Smaller and smaller doses until the cravings are gone.<\/p>\n<p>A strange coincidence, then, that General Mills decided to be all healthy and concerned for everyone&#8217;s welfare right when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodbusinessnews.net\/en\/Opinion\/Ron%20Sterk\/Sugar%20outlook%20not%20so%20sweet.aspx\" target=\"_self\">&#8220;tight global supplies sent [sugar&#8217;s] world futures prices to <em><strong>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 &#8220;immediate&#8221; increase in import quantities.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>I wonder how many boxes of <span>Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms <\/span>cereal will fit in my garage?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Better go buy a crate of Lucky Charms right now. General Mills just announced they are &#8220;&#8230;publicly committed to reducing sugar in cereals advertised to children to single-digit grams of sugar per serving.&#8221; To put this in perspective, Lucky Charms &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=772\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pfyw-cs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}