October 19, 2009

Wal-Mart, You Must Be Kidding Me!

Watch the Wal-Mart video here.

Here’s a quick breakdown of some of the ingredients of the so-called nutritious breakfast products.

  • Frosted Flakes (3/4 cup, 11g sugar): 2nd and 4th ingredients are sugar, and high fructose corn syrup, respectively
  • Raisin Bran Crunch (1 cup, 20g sugar): 2nd ingredient: sugar, 5th ingredient: oat and honey cluster (which includes sugar and corn syrup, then more sugar and high fructose corn syrup… high fructose corn syrup and sugar are both listed 3 different times.
  • Nutri-grain bars (12g sugar): crust: 4th: high fructose corn syrup, 5th: sugar, 6th: honey filling: 1 and 2. high fructose corn syrup and corn syrup, 4th is sugar
Share and Enjoy:
  • Print
  • Digg
  • Sphinn
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Mixx
  • Google Bookmarks
  • MySpace
  • Twitter
RSS

Filed under: nutrition — Tags: , — Matt Schoeneberger M.S. @ 1:01 pm

1 Comment »

  1. Hi,
    The debate rages on. Is HFCS inherently sinister or are we just awash in the stuff.
    Either way it’s killing us sweetly.
    Try StopHFCS.com for an extensive list of HFCS-free foods and beverages.
    Ditch HFCS, especially HFCS-55. To your health.

    Comment by Cynthia1770 — October 20, 2009 @ 8:40 pm

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL

Leave a comment