At 41% sugar, Lucky Charms still qualifies for the food industry's new Smart Choices label, as does every other cereal marketed to kids. On Oct. 15, Connecticut's attorney general described the list of breakfast cereals considered Smart Choices as "alarming" and expressed concern that the labeling system may be "overly simplistic and inaccurate, and ultimately misleading."
The Sugary Brands Doing the Most Kid-Chasing
For the first time, obesity researchers have data showing that the least healthy cereals are the ones marketed most aggressively to kids. Here's the skinny on the 10 most frequently marketed cereals to children on television