I’m unsure the way it occurred, however Cheerios one way or the other grew to become the finger meals of alternative for older infants and toddlers a number of a long time in the past. Go to the mall or anyplace households hang around and, in brief order, you’ll most likely see a baby in a stroller munching the acquainted spherical snack.

That is troublesome as boxed cereal is poisonous meals. All manufacturers, even natural, are extremely onerous to digest from the ultra-processing. Consuming such a meals units a baby up for potential growth of meals allergic reactions.

Worse, nonetheless, is the undeniable fact that auto-immunity triggering chemical residues are exhibiting up in these merchandise as properly. Cheerios, specifically, are repeatedly testing off the charts for the herbicide glyphosate.

Glyphosate is the lively ingredient in Roundup weedkiller and associated merchandise. Its producer, Monsanto-Bayer, is the goal of hundreds of pending lawsuits introduced by plaintiffs who contracted most cancers after utilizing it.

In a nutshell, glyphosate lethally disrupts the wholesome functioning of helpful intestine microbes. When this occurs, intestine dysbiosis begins to take maintain establishing the good circumstances for the potential growth of a mess of autoimmune circumstances comparable to most cancers.

Roundup Residue in Cheerios

The Worldwide Company for Analysis on Most cancers, part of the World Well being Group, labeled glyphosate as “most likely carcinogenic to people” in 2015. (1)

In 2017, glyphosate was labeled as a identified carcinogen by California’s Workplace of Environmental Well being Hazard Evaluation. (2)

Clearly, Basic Mills, maker of Cheerios, doesn’t appear to care because it continues to supply the oats used to make its child-targeted merchandise from contaminated suppliers.

In 2016, the glyphosate residue in Cheerios examined at a stunning 1,125 ppb (components per billion). (3)

That is over seven occasions the Environmental Working Group’s kids’s well being benchmark of 160 ppb!

In the newest spherical of exams Three years later, the Environmental Working Group discovered that Cheerios continues to take first place for having the highest glyphosate residue of all the oat-based merchandise examined.

In keeping with the EWG:

The 2 highest ranges of glyphosate have been present in Honey Nut Cheerios Medley Crunch, with 833 components per billion, or ppb, and Cheerios, with 729 ppb. The EWG kids’s well being benchmark is 160 ppb.

The weedkiller, produced by Bayer-Monsanto, was detected in all 21 oat-based cereal and snack merchandise sampled in a brand new spherical of testing commissioned by the Environmental Working Group. All however 4 merchandise contained ranges of glyphosate increased than what EWG scientists contemplate protecting for kids’s well being with a ample margin of security. (4, 5)

That is in line with the EWG findings from 2018 as properly.

Thus, three units of exams from 2016-2019 from two completely different organizations (the Detox Undertaking and the EWG) have all come again with related findings. Cheerios and associated merchandise comprise obscenely excessive ranges of glyphosate residue…many occasions increased than the kids’s well being benchmark of 160 ppb.

Do-it-yourself Cheerios Substitutes

Mother and father can be clever to keep away from Cheerios and associated industrial cereals, granola bars and different snacks that comprise oats and wheat.

The chance for glyphosate residue is simply too excessive!

Sadly, natural variations of those snacks are nonetheless fairly onerous to digest even when they’re freed from weedkiller residue.

In case your little one loves chilly cereals listed below are some recipes to think about. They’re simple to make at residence and are each nourishing and engaging!

Retailer-Purchased Options

If you’re touring with no entry to a kitchen and should purchase one thing, this model of sprouted natural Oat O’s is appropriate on a really occasional foundation. Simply don’t make it an everyday behavior!

Additionally, it’s best to solely give to kids older than age one who can higher digest grains.

References

(1) Glyphosate listed as a possible carcinogen by the World Well being Group
(2) Glyphosate listed as a identified carcinogen by the state of California
(3) Glyphosate. Unsafe on Any Plate
(4) In New Spherical of Tests, Monsanto’s Weedkiller Nonetheless Contaminates Meals Marketed to Kids
(5) How does EWG set the well being benchmark for glyphosate publicity?
Photographs by Kelly Sikkema and Joseph Keyser