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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.

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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. Melanie Crisp via Facebook

    Dec 29, 2013 at 10:44 pm

    thankyou so much:) I was seriously just thinking about what I’m going to do about changing out our cereals 90 seconds ago!

    Reply
  2. Heidi Bott via Facebook

    Dec 29, 2013 at 10:43 pm

    Last New Years I made the goal to rid our house of boxed cereals. My kids weren’t all to excited, but it didn’t even take us a month. Not only do we eat better, but we save a lot of money too!

    Reply
  3. Christine Nimitz via Facebook

    Dec 29, 2013 at 10:43 pm

    Is there something missing from this recipe? It’s only flour, coconut oil, maple syrup, salt, vanilla, & cinnamon…???????6 cups freshly ground flour
    2 tsp baking soda
    3/4 cup coconut oil (http://bit.ly/1cLTmWJ)
    1 cup Grade B maple syrup or honey (http://bit.ly/19wZ4sD)
    1 tsp sea salt
    1 tsp vanilla extract
    1 tsp maple flavoring )
    1 TBL cinnamon (http://bit.ly/1agDVjf)

    Reply
  4. Susan Eaton via Facebook

    Dec 29, 2013 at 10:42 pm

    Agree with the homemade cereal being in the oven for 24 hrs. I make homemade granola that goes over my yogurt or with raw milk and still buy some organic cereal from TJ’s or Whole Foods (not from the brands that have GMO). I guess it would be better to have a dehydrator to make this? Also can I see a pic of it if anyone made it before?

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  5. Sara Russ via Facebook

    Dec 29, 2013 at 10:39 pm

    I get puffed spelt grains from the wholefoods store and then I coat them in butter and honey and then toast them under the grill (I think you americans call it broiling?) stirring to make sure they don’t burn. then once they look good and toasted I leave them to cool and then serve ’em up with milk. YUM!

    Reply
  6. Mickey Guedea via Facebook

    Dec 29, 2013 at 10:38 pm

    Sonja Walter I think I’m gonna try this!

    Reply
  7. Sue Murphy via Facebook

    Dec 29, 2013 at 10:33 pm

    Can anything else be used instead of milk for dairy allergy?

    Reply
  8. Jason Slajchert via Facebook

    Dec 29, 2013 at 10:23 pm

    Carla, thoughts?

    Reply
  9. Jamie Cuddy Durfee via Facebook

    Dec 29, 2013 at 10:18 pm

    Running my gas oven at 200 for 24 hours sounds like expensive cereal. I agree about boxed cereal. In fact when I ate it on a reg basis my stomach was not happy. I quit eating it and felt better.

    Reply
  10. Beth Aiken via Facebook

    Dec 29, 2013 at 9:57 pm

    I’ve made homemade grape nuts since I found a recipe in an Amish cookbook, 25 years ago. I don’t make it often, it’s too yummy to keep around on a regular basis!

    Reply
    • Love grape nuts

      Dec 30, 2013 at 12:37 pm

      I would love a recipe for grape nuts!

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