Investigation: Breakfast cereal "fruits" and "berries" are faked; made from crazy chemicals

Posted by freedomforall 12 years ago to Business

Call it consumer fraud! Many of the "fruits" used in popular breakfast cereals are really just fake fruits made out of refined factory ingredients like:

• Artificial coloring chemicals
• GMO corn starch
• GMO soybean oil
• Corn syrup solids

So which breakfast cereals can you really trust to deliver REAL fruits versus FAKE fruits?

In this investigation, we examine nine popular cereals.

SOURCE URL: http://www.naturalnews.com/fake-fruit-breakfast-cereals.html

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Posted by richrobinson 12 years ago

Cheerios man myself. great article.

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Posted by UncommonSense 12 years ago

Great post! Very detailed and enlightening. Now if only these same investigators can move onto random colleges & universities to prove that they don't teach anything except indoctrination. I can see these investigators going far in their career.

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Posted by straightlinelogic 12 years ago

I do this really crazy thing. I buy fresh fruit and cut it up and put it on oatmeal or granola (yes, I eat granola and I am not a Democrat). Then all I have to worry about is pesticide residues.

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Posted by iroseland 12 years ago

ok, I just need to point out that anyone who would think that the "berries" in dry cereal are real would have to be too stupid for their own good... If you want a shelf stable dry but edible fruit in your cereal your choice is some pretty scary sounding chemistry or not eating it in the first place. In the meantime lets keep in mind that there is LD50 data for distilled water floating around out there somewhere..

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Posted by rockymountainpirate 12 years ago

I'm glad I prefer plain old Oatmeal and Cream of Rice with the occasional Shredded Wheat.

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  Posted by khalling 12 years ago
  
  cream of rice?! gruel. cocowheat
  
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    Posted by rockymountainpirate 12 years ago
    
    Cream of Rice is actually quite good. Like Cream of Wheat only rice instead ;). I've never tried cocowheat. I'll look in the store today.
    
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      Posted by khalling 12 years ago
      
      I'm not sure you can get it everywhere. another type-close-is Malt-O-Meal. But it's not as chocolatey.
      when I was a kid, our mom wouldn't buy sugared cereal. so it was Cheerios, chex or coco wheats or oatmeal. I would longingly look at the cereal aisle and dream of Boo-Berry or count chocula or Lucky charms. it was only to be if I was at someone else's house, until I had my own money. Then, I never chose it over jolly ranchers or rootbeer balls-we weren't allowed to have candy either. My kids could eat mostly anything. They never really cared for cereal nor candy. After Halloween, their bags of candy would sit there for a few months before I threw it all away.
      
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        Posted by Robbie53024 12 years ago
        
        Mmmmm. Malt-O-Meal. With brown sugar and butter. Makes me all warm inside just thinking about it.
        
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        Posted by rockymountainpirate 12 years ago
        
        We weren't allowed sugary stuff either. The closest we got to anything like that was on a cold rainy day we'd get hot Shredded Wheat that was baked with a little butter & sugar on top and milk for moisture. We did get candy on holidays. I still remember getting ribbon candy in my christmas sock and See's chocolate bunnies at easter.
        
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        Posted by Zenphamy 12 years ago
        
        We never had boxed cereal - 5 boys and a widowed mother - MaltoMeal, Cream of Wheat, Oatmeal - all with butter and molasses. I still can't eat breakfast
        
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    Posted by freedomforall 12 years ago
    
    Didn't anybody have breakfast in the south? Grandad used to make grits with cheese for me as a kid. (Hated grits unless it had the cheese though.)
    
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      Posted by rockymountainpirate 12 years ago
      
      That was the first breakfast I had my first morning in the south. I didn't know it was grits and I thought I was getting something edible. I was wrong.
      
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        Posted by freedomforall 12 years ago
        
        Later on I discovered grits could also be served with 'liver pudding', a pepper spicey ground-meat concoction shaped like a sausage that completely hides the 'flavor' of grits.
        Not so much a breakfast dish though.
        (Now, I do make some good banana pancakes for breakfast.Real bananas, too ;^)
        
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        Posted by rockymountainpirate 12 years ago
        
        I could do banana pancakes, although regular pancakes with Huckleberry syrup is really good too.
        
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        Posted by khalling 12 years ago
        
        banana pancakes over something called liver pudding. yeeee
        
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  Posted by UncommonSense 12 years ago
  
  bacon, eggs, hashbrowns & Gevalia coffee for me. cereal is rare.
  
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Investigation: Breakfast cereal "fruits" and "berries" are faked; made from crazy chemicals

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