Cheerios Goes Non-GMO | GMO InsideGMO Inside

Now this is some amazing news to start the new year! Cheerios goes Non-GMO!

Less than 48 hours into the New Year, and there’s big news to share. There’s no more GMOs in Cheerios.  On a new page launched over the holiday, General Mills announced that they no longer use genetically modified ingredients in original Cheerios.

“It’s the unique and simple nature of original Cheerios that made this possible – and even that required significant investment over nearly a year. Cheerios’ principal ingredient has always been whole grain oats, and there are no GMO oats.  We use just a small amount of corn starch in cooking, and just one gram of sugar per serving for taste.  So we were able to change how we source and handle ingredients to ensure that the corn starch for original Cheerios comes only from non-GMO corn, and our sugar is only non-GMO pure cane sugar. ”

It’s no coincidence that General Mills began investing in non-GMO Cheerios when it did. 

When GMO Inside began in November 2012, we chose General Mills as our first target for using genetically modified ingredients in Cheerios. Last year, when General Mills launched a customer feedback Facebook app, GMO Insiders promptly flooded the page, causing the whole project to shut down.

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