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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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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. Bonny Clark via Facebook

    Dec 30, 2013 at 10:00 am

    I’ve made that recipe and it is good, but I now love on the road full-time and don’t have the necessary amenities to make it. Plus I’m a busy mom and just don’t have time for recipes like that. Instead we just don’t eat any cereal and only eat eggs, oatmeal, or rice for breakfast. Trying to follow a Weston A. Price diet on the road is very difficult, but we do our best.

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  2. Radosveta Hall via Facebook

    Dec 30, 2013 at 8:20 am

    It’s best to avoid all varieties of grains altogether.

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  3. Priscilla Wallace via Facebook

    Dec 30, 2013 at 8:07 am

    Is the maple flavoring, GMO free? It contains soy. I do not knoe Frontiers stance is on GMO ingredients.

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  4. Christin Reske via Facebook

    Dec 30, 2013 at 3:00 am

    in german but awesome:

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  5. Ruthanna Stiner Morrow via Facebook

    Dec 30, 2013 at 1:58 am

    Sounds good! A bit like grape nut cereal…

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  6. Jenya Rafi via Facebook

    Dec 30, 2013 at 1:00 am

    Oh i got super excited to make this but its just super complicated! Does anyone know of an easier recipe?

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  7. Jasmine Liegard via Facebook

    Dec 30, 2013 at 12:20 am

    🙂

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  8. Julianne Ortiz via Facebook

    Dec 30, 2013 at 12:06 am

    Oatmeal?

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  9. Sara Yawn via Facebook

    Dec 29, 2013 at 10:49 pm

    oatmeal

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  10. Kathy Shearer via Facebook

    Dec 29, 2013 at 10:45 pm

    This is the absolute BEST cold cereal recipe! We make it all of the time! Thanks Sarah!

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