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Jul 19, 2026
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Children’s cereals promise breakfast fun and nutrition, but are still high in sugar
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Cereals use an array of techniques to capture kids’ (and parental) attention, for example, cartoon mascots, licensed media characters or fun shapes, colours and/or flavours. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Richard Buchan
Children’s cereals promise breakfast fun and nutrition, but are still high in sugar
Published: July 19, 2026 10.22am EDT
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Many of us have grown up hearing the mantra that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, yet cereals for kids fall short of that standard. That is the takeaway of my new research study analyzing child-targeted cereals in Canada.
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