Survey Warns Over Too Salty, Sugary Cereals

Sugar can damage their teeth and salt can make them overweight. The cereals very high in sugar included Morrisons Choco Crackles, Kellogg's Coco Pops Moons and Stars, Frosties and Ricicles. The very salty ones included Tesco Special Flakes (2g salt per 100g), and Kellogg's Corn Flakes, Kellogg's Honey Loops, Morrison's Honey Nut Corn Flakes and Whole Earth Organic Corn Flakes, all of which contain 1.8g of salt per 100g.

The Telegraph article reports that "The Food Standards Agency has set a target for food manufacturers to reduce the salt content of cereals to just 0.8g per 100g by next year." I would advise the Food Standards Agency not to hold its breath; I reckon there isn't the ghost of a chance that that reduction will be achieved by next year. Whilever salt reduction is voluntary it is going to take place at the speed of a snail on sedatives.

Significant salt reduction on products aimed at children should be mandatory. Salt and salty food is making children fat, unhealthy and unhappy.

Reference

Margaret Wilde http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/children.html