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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday September 26 2017, @01:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the bring-back-booberry-next! dept.

So much for making the recipe more natural. People would rather eat artificial ingredients than give up vibrant colors.

The people have spoken. They've had enough of General Mills' attempts to make its breakfast cereal more natural and want the old version back. In a surprising announcement made last Thursday, the company said it would do precisely that -- reintroduce its classic Trix cereal, in all its artificial glory, because that's what people want.

[...] Ever since General Mills announced in 2015 that it would start phasing out artificial colors and flavors from all its cereals (an announcement that boosted sales by 6 percent in early 2016 and pleased many shoppers and scientists who have concerns about the health effects of these petroleum-sourced food dyes), there has been a parallel outpouring of protest from committed cereal lovers. People weren't happy with the way the cereal looked or tasted.

"Petroleum-sourced food dyes," it's what's for breakfast!


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @04:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @04:49AM (#572942)

    So what?

    there's sugar, but not much, in the flakes. Needed to help bind the flour to make the flakes.

    There's definitely sugar in the raisins. LOTS of sugar. Inherent sugar. There are no low- or sugar-free raisins.

    There is really no effective difference between sugars from dried fruits vs good ol' white crystal sugar. Except perhaps you get marginally other nutritional components from the dried fruit bits. fructose/glucose vs sucrose, blahblahblah. sugar is sugar.

    The generic/store brand raisin bran tends to not put as much sugar on the raisins as Post or General Mills raisin brans cereal.

    If you want a true low sugar cereal, there's some granolas that add very little sugar (Great Northern, in the milk box is one). Shredded Wheat (the big biscuits of it, not the mini shredded wheat that's got sugar frosting on it).

    Or just eat some plain ol' Cheerios instead.

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