The shocking truth about sugar hiding in your chocolate cereal – with a bowl nearly as sugary as a bar of Dairy Milk

IS your breakfast a choccy horror show?

More than 14million people tuck into a bowl of cereal every morning – but behind each bite can be a shocking amount of sugar.

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There’s a shocking amount of sugar hidden in some of your favourite breakfast cereals[/caption]

Food giant Nestle was branded “irresponsible” recently by ten health campaign groups for its   “misleading nutritional claims” after releasing a KitKat cereal.

While Nestle insists the claims are “wildly unfair”, 100g of KitKat cereal contains 420 calories, 10.9g of fat and 24.7g of sugar – the equivalent of THREE squares of a chocolate bar.

And its not the only offender.

Josh Saunders finds the sugariest chocolate cereals per 100g by equating that amount to cubes from a bar of Cadbury Dairy Milk, which each contain 7.5g of sugar.

5 WORST

Lidl Crownfield Choco Rice

Lidl

RATING: 5

Kellogg’s Crunchy Nut Chocolate Clusters

Kellogg's

469cal/16g fat/30g sugar[/caption]

RATING: 4

Waitrose Essential Choco Pops

Waitrose

395cal/2.8g fat/29.3g sugar[/caption]

RATING: 4

Lidl Crownfield Nougat Pillows

Lidl

RATING: 4

Lidl Crownfield Choco Hazelnut Pillows

Lidl

RATING: 4

5 BEST

Tesco Multigrain Meteors

RATING: 1

Kellogg’s Special K Granola Dark Chocolate Curls

RATING: 2

The Great British Porridge Co. Classic Chocolate Instant

RATING: 2

Rude Health Chocolate Crunch Granola

RATING: 2

Bear Cocoa Alphabites

RATING: 2

BIG BRANDS

Oreo O’s Cereal

RATING: 4 1/2

Kellogg’s Krave Cookies & Cream

RATING: 3 1/2

Nestle Shreddies – The Coco One

RATING: 3

Kellogg’s Coco Pops Cereal

RATING: 2

Kellog’s Choco Wheats

RATING: 2 1/2

Nestle Nesquik Mix

RATING: 3

Weetos Chocolatey Hoops

RATING: 2 1/2

Quaker Oat So Simple Velvety Chocolate

RATING: 2 1/2

Weetabix Protein Crunch Chocolate Cereal

RATING: 3

KitKat Cereal

RATING: 3