Approximately 283 million Americans eat cold cereal every day. If you’re one of them, you probably want to find the best organic cereal brand. We hope this guide will help you enjoy this convenient breakfast food without compromising you health!
As a child of the 1950’s, most mornings I ate cold cereal for breakfast. We could help ourselves so that my mom was free to do other chores. My father thought boxed cereal was great because, as a child of the Depression era, he had to eat porridge or oatmeal every day. He often commented how fortunate we were to have tasty cereal! During this time, cereals blossomed into the sweet treat we know today.
Back then, most cereal brands were named “Sugar This” or “Sugar That.” Kellogg Sugar Smacks were a favorite in my childhood home, and they have the distinction of having the most sugar by weight of any cereal on the market, then or now. Fifty-six percent of the cereal was sugar! (BTW: When we ran out of cold cereal, we took white bread, sprinkled sugar on it, and poured milk over it.)
When I had my own children in the 1980’s, I had just rejected eating any sugar (the book Sugar Blues was popular back then). Like my own father, my kids grew up eating porridge. I’d cook rice, millet, oats, and other whole grains with soy milk adding a little honey or maple syrup for sweetness.
There were a few cereal brands that didn’t have added sugar but they were hard to find–Erewhon’s Crispy Brown Rice, Oatios, and Kellogg’s Nutri Grain cereal were our the best organic cereal brands back then, but the they all have since been discontinued! Today, sugar has crept back into most cold cereals–even the organic, “healthy” ones. But there are still nutrient-rich, non-toxic boxed cereals to be found. This guide will go over the best organic cereal brands.
