Protein is the new black. Low sugar is also the new black.

I know this because the local grocery store I shop at is now selling a conspicuously large number of food items that prominently note how much PROTEIN is in them. Over in the cereal aisle, they have even moved all the PROTEIN-rich cereals into one section of the shelf for convenience, regardless of brand or flavour. Likewise, low sugar is also everywhere, but especially in that same cereal aisle. Today I observed multigrain low sugar Frosted Flakes. This is about as close as you can get to selling low sugar low sugar. The cereal used to be called SUGAR Frosted Flakes. But now you can buy it with less sugar than most of the allegedly healthy “adult” cereals, which may now contain a bucket of protein, but also huge mounds of sugar. Does Tony the Tiger have no teeth? Did they all rot out from too much sugar? Questions! Still cereal-related, General Mills seems to be going totally bananas with the Cheerios brand. I remember when it was Cheerios, then they added Honey Nut Cheerios. Today I…