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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Healthy Living / Why Boxed Breakfast Cereal is Toxic

Why Boxed Breakfast Cereal is Toxic

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

The shocking truth about the processing that is required to make boxed breakfast cereal which makes it toxic even if organically certified.

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Did you know that ALL boxed breakfast cereals are toxic?

In fact, organic boxed breakfast cereal is the most toxic of all!  

How can this be?  

It seems that everywhere you turn, a bowl of breakfast cereal is touted as a very healthy choice for your first meal of the day.

It’s not true, folks!

To make boxed breakfast cereal in the factory, the grains first have to be subjected to such intense pressure and heat that they actually liquefy into a slurry.  

This slurry allows the grains to be quickly and easily shaped into the puffs, flakes, and other shapes that make each cereal distinct.

The manufacturing process used to make boxed cereal is called extrusion.

It is so violent and denaturing that the proteins in the grains are actually rendered toxic and allergenic by the process.

This is why organic boxed breakfast cereal is more toxic than nonorganic.

Organic boxed cereal is whole grain and has significantly more protein in it!  

In other words, the more protein, the more toxic the boxed cereal.

The digestive system has no idea how to metabolize these warped, denatured protein molecules.

The undigested food particles putrefy in the gut. They are also food for pathogens to feed upon, which serves to strengthen them and crowd out good flora.

Stay away!

If you wish to eat cold breakfast cereal that is healthy, you must make your own.

Here are 7 homemade cereal recipes to try and enjoy to wean yourself off an unhealthy and addictive boxed cereal habit.

More Information

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Reference

Dirty Little Secrets of the Food Processing Industry

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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: Amazon #1 bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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Comments (90)

  1. Lisa Schell via Facebook

    Dec 29, 2013 at 9:56 pm

    Warm Gf oatmeal is our standard. The kids love it.

    Reply
  2. Ruth

    Aug 25, 2012 at 4:38 am

    Hi Sarah,
    My adult son has has given up bread after discovering that it wasn’t good for him. He’s started eating rice cakes. Are they extruded? I don’t think rice cakes are an ideal food, but how bad are they really? Maybe you would like to do a post on them.
    Thanks, Ruth

    Reply
  3. normal person

    Jul 25, 2012 at 5:23 pm

    Dear god woman. Learn some basic science.

    “To make boxed breakfast cereal in the factory, the grains first have to be subjected to such intense pressure and heat that they actually liquify into a slurry.”

    Not only not even close to how flakes are made, it’s not even physically possible. Grains are not rocks, they do not “liquify” under heat and pressure, i.e. melt.

    “is so violent and denaturing that the proteins in the grains are actually rendered toxic and allergenic by the process. ”

    Also not anywhere near scientifically accurate or possible.

    “This is why organic boxed breakfast cereal is more toxic than nonorganic — because organic boxed cereal is whole grain and thereby has more protein in it! The more protein, the more toxic the boxed cereal.”

    Grain protein is not toxic.
    It’s no where near toxic.
    The difference between whole grain cereal and normal cereal is the normal cereal is typically only made with the endosperm portion of the seed. This part is all carbohydrate, very little anything else. It’s starch. Whole grain uses the…whole grain. So it includes the germ, which is protein, as well as the bran which is fiber (indigestible cellulose).

    Your theories and comments are false, scientifically inaccurate, easily refutable.
    In short: bullshit.

    Reply
  4. Pearl

    Jun 17, 2012 at 6:38 am

    Hi Sarah I read this post and then watched your video on how to make breakfast cereal. In the recipe here you write raw milk or yogurt but in the video you say to use clabbered milk or buttermilk. Can I use raw milk that has not been clabbered? I’d like to make it today and my milk is still fresh!

    thanks

    Reply
  5. jessica

    Mar 13, 2012 at 2:40 pm

    One more question, in your ingredients you saw raw milk to soak with, but in your video it is clabbered. Which is best? Thank you

    Reply
  6. jessica

    Mar 4, 2012 at 9:29 pm

    Is it ok to use already ground sprouted wheat or whole wheat flour if you dont have a flour mill or a vitamix?

    Reply
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