{"id":113143,"date":"2009-12-10T01:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T06:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021519673330908753.post-7195918943712089567"},"modified":"2009-12-10T08:35:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T13:35:52","slug":"general-mills-to-reduce-sugar-in-cereals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/113143","title":{"rendered":"General Mills to Reduce Sugar in Cereals"},"content":{"rendered":"

General Mills announced today a public commitment to reduce sugar in cereals advertised to children to single-digit grams of sugar per serving. The initiative is in place and progress has been made, the company said, \u201cwith further reductions to continue until single-digit levels are reached on all cereals advertised to children.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cReady-to-eat cereals, including presweetened cereals, account for only five percent of the sugar in children\u2019s diets,\u201d said Jeff Harmening, President of General Mills\u2019 Big G cereal division. \u201cStill, we know that some consumers would prefer to see cereals that are even lower in sugar, especially children\u2019s cereals. General Mills has responded \u2013 and we are committing to reduce sugar levels even more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

General Mills has been reducing sugar in cereals advertised to children, while increasing key nutrients, such as calcium and vitamin<\/a> D, and providing whole grain. \u201cWe have already made meaningful changes across our cereal portfolio,\u201d noted Harmening, \u201cand we have reached and exceeded our original goals. So today we are strengthening our goal \u2013 by publicly committing to further reduce to single-digit levels of sugar per serving every cereal advertised to children under twelve.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The company\u2019s commitment is among the most aggressive goals advanced in the food industry. The initiative will extend globally to 130 countries, with Cereal Partners Worldwide \u2013 the global cereal joint venture in which General Mills is a partner \u2013 adopting similar commitments.<\/span><\/p>\n

General Mills has led numerous health and nutrition initiatives in cereal. The company was a pioneer in fortifying cereals with vitamins and minerals, and continued its leadership by fortifying its entire line of children\u2019s cereals with calcium and vitamin D in 2008. Read more…<\/a>
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General Mills announced today a public commitment to reduce sugar in cereals advertised to children to single-digit grams of sugar per serving. The initiative is in place and progress has been made, the company said, \u201cwith further reductions to continue until single-digit levels are reached on all cereals advertised to children.\u201d \u201cReady-to-eat cereals, including presweetened […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":967,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/967"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}