Eating sugary cereals ‘better than eating no breakfast’

HAVING a breakfast is more important for children than the make-up of the cereals they eat, according to Safefood, the body responsible for the promotion of food safety.

Safefood director of human health and nutrition, Dr Cliodhna Foley-Nolan, said parents should not get obsessed about the nutrient labels on cereal boxes.

She was responding to a study published this week by Which?, the British consumer watchdog, which found little effort had been made to reduce sugar levels in children’s cereals since it had highlighted the issue in 2006.