{"id":337093,"date":"2019-08-28T18:30:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T16:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=337093"},"modified":"2019-08-28T17:18:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T15:18:14","slug":"how-much-sugar-is-packed-into-your-favourite-south-african-breakfast-cereal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/337093\/how-much-sugar-is-packed-into-your-favourite-south-african-breakfast-cereal\/","title":{"rendered":"How much sugar is packed into your favourite South African breakfast cereal"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Africa has a multitude of brightly coloured cereal boxes stacked on the shelves of major retailers adorned with mascots and advertising “fun” flavours for kids – but shoppers should be mindful of the amount of sugar in each serving.<\/p>\n

A look at 40 of the most popular cereal brands on store shelves today, revealed that almost half have sugar content that makes up a quarter of a typical serving.<\/p>\n

Cereal brands are constantly changing their recipes to attract market share in a competitive space – which means that some brands change over time, new brands are introduced and others are discontinued.<\/p>\n

In August 2018, Kellogg’s changed the local recipe for Rice Krispies, turning the single grain, relatively sugar-free cereal, into a multi-grain vanilla-flavoured breakfast bowl with far more sugar.<\/p>\n

The new recipe pushed the total sugar content from 8 grams of sugar per 100g, to over 21 grams.<\/p>\n

And while Kellogg’s added sugar to Rice Krispies – from 8 grams of sugar per 100g, to over 21 grams – it was also removed another family favourite from the shelves in South Africa, namely Kellogg’s Frosties which carried 37.4 grams of sugar per 100 grams when measured in 2018.<\/p>\n

The breakfast cereal giant has since added a new character to its brands in the form of Kellogg’s Unicorn Fruit Loops – a strawberry flavoured cereal carrying 18 grams of sugar per 100 grams.<\/p>\n

BusinessTech looked at 40 popular cereals to identify which ones have the highest sugar content per serving.<\/p>\n

With the loss of Kellogg’s Frosties, South Africa’s most sugar-filled cereal crown now belongs to Bokomo, with the group’s Creme Soda flavoured Otees carrying 38.6 grams of sugar per 100 grams.<\/p>\n

This is followed by Otees Mixed Berry, Kellogg’s Strawberry Pops, Coco Pops and Otees Chocolate Flakes – all of which have more than 30 grams of sugar per 100 grams.<\/p>\n

Otees Creme Soda – 38.6 grams of sugar per 100g\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Otees Mixed Berry – 33.5 grams of sugar per 100g\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Strawberry Pops – 33.1 grams of sugar per 100g\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Coco Pops – 33.1 grams of sugar per 100g\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Otees Chocolate Flakes – 31.9 grams of sugar per 100g\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The table below outlines the nutritional information of 30 popular cereals in South Africa, ranked by the highest sugar content per 100 grams.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The recommended serving size for a bowl of cereal is 30 grams, and the details below do not account for added milk or sugar, which can significantly change the sugar content.<\/p>\n

However, the grams of sugar per 100 grams can be interpreted as a percentage \u2013 thus some of the worst offenders (33 grams per 100 grams) can be read as one third of any serving size being sugar.<\/p>\n

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Read: Nestle has found a way to create chocolate without adding any sugar<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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