Cereals Products - Ready to Eat (Shelf Stable) · barcode 00016000137257

Gmills Cheerios Sweetened Whl Grn Oat Cereal Strwbry Family Sz

General Mills Sales Inc.

Typical for cereals products - ready to eat (shelf stable)

Compared with FDA's oat ring cereal: what FDA found when it bought and tested it across the US. These are not tests of this product.

• Lead: typically 4.4 ppb (FDA, 3 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches FDA's daily limit at about 610 g (22 oz) a day; an adult at about 2.4 kg (5.3 lb).
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  16% of a toddler's daily limit

  4% of a adult's daily limit
• Cadmium: typically 19 ppb (FDA, 3 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 750 g (26 oz) a day; an adult at about 3.5 kg (7.7 lb).
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  13% of a toddler's daily limit

  3% of a adult's daily limit
• Arsenic (total): typically 28 ppb (FDA, 3 samples, 2018-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
• Perchlorate: typically 5 ppb (FDA, 20 samples, 2008-2012). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 2.1 kg (4.6 lb) a day; an adult at about 10 kg (22 lb).
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  5% of a toddler's daily limit

  1% of a adult's daily limit
• Mercury: usually below 1 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

• Lead in Cereal, oat ring: found in 2 of 3, average 3.6, highest 6.4 ppb (2018-2020)
• Cadmium in Cereal, oat ring: found in 3 of 3, average 20, highest 25 ppb (2018-2020)
• Mercury in Cereal, oat ring: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
• Arsenic (total) in Cereal, oat ring: found in 3 of 3, average 29, highest 35 ppb (2018-2020)
• Perchlorate in Oat ring cereal: found in 20 of 20, average 4.9, highest 9 ppb (2008-2012)

"Typically" is FDA's middle sample. Daily amounts use the long-run average and each chemical's daily limit (EPA reference dose, or FDA's level for lead) for a 33-lb toddler and a 154-lb adult. ppb = micrograms per kilogram of food. Source: FDA Total Diet Study.

Not tested

No published results for this product cover: Metals, Perchlorate, Phthalates (plastic softeners), Phthalate substitutes, Bisphenols. That means nobody has published a test, not that these are absent.

Ingredients (from the label)

WHOLE GRAIN OATS, SUGAR, CORN STARCH, STRAWBERRY PUREE CONCENTRATE, CANOLA OIL, SALT, CORN SYRUP, TRISODIUM PHOSPHATE, VEGETABLE AND FRUIT JUICE COLOR, NATURAL FLAVOR. VITAMIN E (MIXED TOCOPHEROLS) ADDED TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS.VITAMINS AND MINERALS: CALCIUM CARBONATE, ZINC AND IRON (MINERAL NUTRIENTS), VITAMIN C (SODIUM ASCORBATE), A B VITAMIN (NIACINAMIDE), VITAMIN B6 (PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE), VITAMIN B2 (RIBOFLAVIN), VITAMIN B1 (THIAMIN MONONITRATE), VITAMIN A (PALMITATE), A B VITAMIN (FOLIC ACID), VITAMIN B12, VITAMIN D3.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2019-04-01. Labels change; check the package.

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