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Worried about the health effects of the sugar in your breakfast cereal? Little has changed since the days of ‘Unfrosted,’ the Pop-Tarts movie

  • Written by Nathaniel Johnson, Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics, University of North Dakota
imageJerry Seinfeld, who wrote and directed "Unfrosted," poses next to a Pop-Tarts mascot at the Netflix film's premiere in Hollywood, Calif., in April 2024. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP

While Jerry Seinfeld, Melissa McCarthy, Amy Schumer and Hugh Grant got top billing, sweet breakfast foods from the 1960s are arguably the real stars of the recent movie...

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