Kids Will Eat Low-Sugar Cereals

Kids Will Eat Low-Sugar Cereals: Despite the heavy marketing of sugary breakfast cereals to children, kids seem willing to eat low-sugar cereals — particularly if they can add fresh fruit or a small amount of table sugar. In a randomized study conducted among more than 90 kids, those children offered low-sugar cereals consumed half the amount of refined sugar at breakfast compared with those who ate high-sugar cereals (12.5 g versus 24.4 g, P<0.001), according to Jennifer L. Harris, PhD, of Yale University, and colleagues. Furthermore, the children eating low-sugar cereals were more likely to add fresh fruit (54% versus 8%, P<0.001), the researchers wrote in the January Pediatrics 2010.