{"id":73110,"date":"2009-12-09T13:38:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T18:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/general-mills-reduces-amount-of-sugar-in-kids-cereals-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-09T13:38:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T18:38:54","slug":"general-mills-cuts-sugar-in-cereals-ostensibly-for-health-reasons-but-not-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/73110","title":{"rendered":"General Mills Cuts Sugar In Cereals, Ostensibly For Health Reasons, But Not Really"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surely General Mills will cite public outcry on the unhealthiness of its cereals for the move, considering how sugary Trix and Lucky Charms are:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/General-Mills-reducing-sugar-apf-2053083913.html?x=0\">AP<\/a>: General Mills &#8212; the maker of Lucky Charms, Trix and Cocoa Puffs &#8212; plans to reduce the amount of sugar in its cereals marketed to children.<\/p>\n<p>General Mills said it will cut the sugar in 10 of its cereals to single-digit grams of sugar per serving. It did not provide a timeline for reaching this goal, but it builds on reductions the company rolled out two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The health reasons are great, but here&#8217;s the real reason (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mongabay.com\/images\/commodities\/charts\/sugar.html\">Mongabay<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b1fede60000000000ca70a9&amp;maxX=582&amp;maxY=410\" border=\"0\" alt=\"World Sugar Prices 2009\" width=\"582\" height=\"410\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/general-mills-reduces-amount-of-sugar-in-kids-cereals-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/kellogg-posts-higher-profit-as-poor-americans-chow-down-on-cereal-2009-10\">Kellogg Posts Higher Profit As Poor Americans Chow Down On Cereal (K)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/2008\/12\/recession-winner-cereal-maker-general-mills\">Recession Winner: Cereal Maker General Mills<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jim-rogers-dump-the-dollar-2009-12\">Jim Rogers: Commodities Will Go Up No Matter How The Economy Performs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/w3d3-RPiUQw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surely General Mills will cite public outcry on the unhealthiness of its cereals for the move, considering how sugary Trix and Lucky Charms are: AP: General Mills &#8212; the maker of Lucky Charms, Trix and Cocoa Puffs &#8212; plans to reduce the amount of sugar in its cereals marketed to children. General Mills said it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73110","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}