Are General Mills Cereals The Half Right Thing?

Five General Mills cereals are now gluten free. Yes, the Big G has made a lot of people happy with the roll out of five gluten free cereals and four GF baking mixes. I was especially happy about gluten free Corn Chex. BUT then I had to wonder and ask, "is their corn genetically engineered??"

Do you care? Maybe, you don't if you think being gluten free is all you need to be healthy or if you're just trying out being gluten free because it's all the rage and Elizabeth Hasselbeck, from The View, wrote a book about it.

You do care, if you're like me and got excited about the General Mills cereals being gluten free because GF products are one of many things you know you need to be healthy.

Do you want GMOs?

GMO = Genetically Modified Organisms. According to Green America, the non-profit sustainability advocy group, "General Mills has not provided transparent information about its use of genetically engineered products and has fought proposed regulations requiring the labeling of GMO foods."

All General Mills products may contain GMO Ingredients per the listing in The NON-GMO Shopping Guide, produced by Center for Food Safety and Institute for Responsible Technology.

So now I have to think again about a quick breakfast. Do you want to be part of a GMO experiment? I don't. Maybe we need to reconsider those expensive organic cereals from Whole Foods. Maybe they don't cost as much as we thought.

Read what doctors think about GMOs; The American Academy Of Environmental Medicine Calls For Immediate Moratorium On Genetically Modified Foods

Kernels of Gluten Free Information

Ingredient alert: Corn is naturally gluten free so why did the Corn Chex have gluten to begin with? Official answer; barley malt. Keep that in mind as you look at other products. Malt is bad.

Corn Chex
Honey Nut Chex (corn based)
Strawberry Chex (rice based)
Chocolate Chex (rice and corn based)
Cinnamon Chex (rice and corn based)

Read about how General Mills cereals get a lower price per box but end up costing you just as much as before. Are you detecting a Big G trend?

GM owner of Betty Crocker also has the following Gluten Free baking mixes ready for release in the Summer 2009); Brownie, Chocolate Chip Cookie, Devils Food Cake, and Yellow Cake. Guess I'll never know if those brownies are worth baking.

But that's okay. There are plenty of truly good-for-you food out in our world. I'll keep finding and sharing info about those gluten free products.