Are Honey Nut Cheerios Healthy? We Look Inside the Box

Are Honey Nut Cheerios Healthy? We Look Inside the Box
General Mills refers to cereals like Honey Nut Cheerios as “presweetened” — putting
the sugar, brown sugar and honey into your cereal so you don’t have to.
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.
“You mentioned that three of the top six ingredients in Honey Nut Cheerios are sugar, brown sugar
and honey,” Mike Siemienas, a spokesman for the company, wrote in a statement.
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
that lowered the overall weight per serving, which had the effect of helping lower the stated sugar content.
“We’ve been saying for years that Honey Nut Cheerios has more sugar than honey
and more salt than nuts, in fact it’s got no nuts at all, it’s just got almond flavor.”
The center has quarreled with General Mills before.
If Honey Nut Cheerios still had a one cup serving size, the sugar content would be in the double digits.