Did you eat Cheerios as a kid? According to the Huffington Post, General Mills has
announced that the Original Cheerios will no longer contain genetically
modified ingredients. Apparently the only ingredients that were previously genetically modified
were cornstarch and sugar, but that will no longer be the case. "It's the unique and simple
nature of original Cheerios that made this possible — and even that required
significant investment over nearly a year. Cheerios' principal ingredient has
always been whole grain oats, and there are no GMO oats. We use just a small
amount of corn starch in cooking, and just one gram of sugar per serving for
taste. So we were able to change how we source and handle ingredients to ensure
that the corn starch for original Cheerios comes only from non-GMO corn, and
our sugar is only non-GMO pure cane sugar," General Mills explained. While
Cheerios are joining the non-GMO grocery list, many of General Mills' other
cereals are not. "For our other cereals, the widespread use of GM seed in
crops such as corn, soy, or beet sugar would make reliably moving to non-GM
ingredients difficult, if not impossible," reads a statement on the General
Mills website.
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