![]() I also love the bright colors of the berry-flavored cereal balls. I really enjoyed the fruit flavors of the Crunch Berries but you can definitely make these with plain Captain Crunch cereal. Unlike a traditional rice crispy treat, that is made using small crisp rice cereal, these treats made using Cap'n Crunch Berries Cereal have much fewer cereal pieces to blend with the marshmallows, so you really see the gooey marshmallows when you look at these bars. These bars really taste like cereal and milk. These new treats made using Cap'n Crunch Berries Cereal are my absolute favorite, so far! I really thought they would be too sweet but they were not as sweet as expected. We've had so much fun using a variety of kid-friendly cereals to create delicious marshmallow treats including Fruity Pebbles Rice Crispy Treats, Cocoa Krispie Treats, and Froot Loops Cereal Bars. Imagine blending these childhood favorites together to create these crispy, crunchy, chewy, Cap'n Crunch Cereal Treats. Each crunchy bar is loaded with gooey marshmallows and can be made using plain Cap'n Crunch cereal or Crunch Berries.ĭid you grow up eating Cap'n Crunch cereal? How about Rice Krispie Treats? High amount of added sugars are a recipe for obesity, and added sugar is the second primary ingredient in Cap’n Crunch! You don’t want to be feeding your family something that can contribute to obesity (and other conditions such as heart disease and diabetes that often follow).These Cap'n Crunch Cereal Treats will bring out the kid in anyone. It is not worth having a potential cancer causing carcinogen in your cereal just to give it some color.Ĭap’n Crunch rounds this toxic cereal by making it high in sugar (sugar is listed as the second primary ingredient) and low in fiber. This synthetic color is made “by reacting sugars with ammonia and sulfites under high pressure and temperatures…which in government-conducted studies caused lung, liver, or thyroid cancer or leukemia in laboratory mice or rats” (3). Similar to other cereals like Reese’s Puffs, Cap’n Crunch contains caramel color. BHT also has industrial uses in petroleum products and jet fuel - not something you want ingesting with your cereal! What’s this preservative doing in your cereal anyways? BHT is an antioxidant that gives processed foods a longer shelf life by preventing bacteria and mold growth. Due to questions on its safety, the US FD&A is currently reviewing BHT added in foods (2). ![]() Starting with the preservative Butylated Hydroxytoluene (BHT), several studies indicate that BHT may cause cancer in rats, while other studies have found it safe, according to the University of California at Los Angeles publication "What Food Additives Add" (2). Getting into the ingredients, the cereal has its share of harmful ones. According to Paul Stitt, author of Fighting the Food Giants, rats who were fed extruded cereal died faster than those who were starved and only given water! (1) Simply put, puffed cereal is toxic and bad for you.Ĭap’n Crunch is loaded with additives & harmful synthetic chemicals with links to cancer and obesity. Extrusion similarly destroys the fatty and amino acids in grains. This process changes the very nature of the grain & the proteins, making the denatured proteins toxic and harmful to our nervous system! (1). In this, the extruder takes the slurry of corn grain through extremely high pressure and temperatures and emits it on the other end out of tiny holes in the form of various fluffy shapes. The fluffy cereal shapes of Cap’n Crunch are created via a process called extrusion. The way food is made and processed, is equally as important as the ingredients themselves. Cap’n Crunch and extrusion - puffed & denatured toxic proteins: Please Note: Here is our complete guide to all the 7 unhealthy additives commonly found across breakfast cereals + our complete list of the worst cereal brands to avoid. Let’s first dive into the harmful extrusion process used in making this cereal. ![]() Potentially Harmful Process used by Cap’n Crunch: ExtrusionįROM THE HIGH TEMPERATURE process used to produce Cap’n Crunch to the harmful preservatives and artificial coloring present there are a lot of questions consumers need to be asking of the Cap’n. Potentially Harmful Ingredients in Cap’n Crunch: BHT, Caramel color, Added Sugar Why the Cap’n Crunch product labeling is misleading: A cereal full of harmful additives like artificial coloring & BHT, and made via the toxic extrusion process, contradicts the safe smiling grandpa image meant to allure kids ![]()
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