February 1, 2024, a new cereal line filled with artificially flavored vanilla crème was launched, but tests reveal it had alarming levels of heavy metals.
An article that shows us the toxins that we can find in cereals that add to the problems of gluten and excess linoleic acid. Unfortunately, cereals with pesticides, herbicides, chemicals, GMOs, high levels of sugar and other harmful ingredients are very common in traditional children's cereals and can cause harmful health effects to the immune, reproductive and nervous systems and increase the risk Of cancer. Many children's cereals are made using something called the "extrusion process." This exposes the grains to high levels of heat and pressure, which changes the nature of the grain, effectively turning it into processed food. FoodMatters.com quotes biochemist Paul Stitt, who notes that this process destroys most of the grains' natural nutrients. This is why many children's cereals are fortified, although extrusion can also destroy those added nutrients.
Additionally, the proteins in the extruded grains are fundamentally altered, leaving a product that can be toxic. According to “Dirty Secrets of the Food Processing Industry,” there are two known but unpublished experiments testing breakfast cereals on laboratory rats. In both studies, rats that ate breakfast cereal and water died sooner than rats that were not fed at all or that were fed a cardboard box of cereal and water. A published study showed that these rogue proteins could interact “with each other and with other components, forming new compounds that are foreign to the human body.” In the link 10 toxic cereal brands including General Mills
The consequences are also quite real: from inflammation, behavioral problems in children, obesity and diabetes, to name a few.
The high pressure and heat manufacturing technique called extrusion that denatures the whole grains of our cereals and makes them toxic. Most of the 7 bad cereal ingredients we cover below go hand-in-hand with this processing methodology. When a food product is highly processed and removed from its natural state, the need for harmful additives is normal.
Here are the four key parts of a research paper:
1) PART I: The 7 Unhealthy Additives in our Ultra-Processed Cereals
2) Part II: Extrusion - an inflammation causing and neurotoxins producing process so harmful it gets its own section
An article that shows us the toxins that we can find in cereals that add to the problems of gluten and excess linoleic acid. Unfortunately, cereals with pesticides, herbicides, chemicals, GMOs, high levels of sugar and other harmful ingredients are very common in traditional children's cereals and can cause harmful health effects to the immune, reproductive and nervous systems and increase the risk Of cancer. Many children's cereals are made using something called the "extrusion process." This exposes the grains to high levels of heat and pressure, which changes the nature of the grain, effectively turning it into processed food. FoodMatters.com quotes biochemist Paul Stitt, who notes that this process destroys most of the grains' natural nutrients. This is why many children's cereals are fortified, although extrusion can also destroy those added nutrients.
Additionally, the proteins in the extruded grains are fundamentally altered, leaving a product that can be toxic. According to “Dirty Secrets of the Food Processing Industry,” there are two known but unpublished experiments testing breakfast cereals on laboratory rats. In both studies, rats that ate breakfast cereal and water died sooner than rats that were not fed at all or that were fed a cardboard box of cereal and water. A published study showed that these rogue proteins could interact “with each other and with other components, forming new compounds that are foreign to the human body.” In the link 10 toxic cereal brands including General Mills
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The consequences are also quite real: from inflammation, behavioral problems in children, obesity and diabetes, to name a few.
The high pressure and heat manufacturing technique called extrusion that denatures the whole grains of our cereals and makes them toxic. Most of the 7 bad cereal ingredients we cover below go hand-in-hand with this processing methodology. When a food product is highly processed and removed from its natural state, the need for harmful additives is normal.
Here are the four key parts of a research paper:
1) PART I: The 7 Unhealthy Additives in our Ultra-Processed Cereals
2) Part II: Extrusion - an inflammation causing and neurotoxins producing process so harmful it gets its own section
3) Part III: The Worst Breakfast Cereals.
4) PART IV: Guidance for a better breakfast
https://smallbatchgoodness.com/blog/what-makes-cereal-unhealthy-and-worst-cereals