sugar bombs

Cavity-inducing breakfast food

Sugar bombs is informal for heavily sweetened breakfast cereals, especially those marketed to children with cartoon mascots and bright colors.

The term is usually disparaging, implying the product is candy masquerading as food: I won't let my kids eat those sugar bombs for breakfast.

More broadly, any food with excessive added sugar.

Related

sucrose · mascot · breakfast · Fallout · video game · bowl · hyperactivity · frosting · junk food · post-apocalyptic · corn syrup · high fructose · comfort food · tooth decay · grains · muffins · carbohydrates · empty calories

Opposites
nutritional value

sugar bombsoatmeal

Boiled grain breakfast

steel-cut oats · bran flakes · muesli · shredded wheat · health food

processing level

sugar bombswhole foods

Unrefined, unprocessed edibles

natural foods · farm-to-table · minimally processed · clean eating · organic produce

taste profile

sugar bombsbland food

Unseasoned, tasteless cuisine

sugar-free · bitter greens · cardboard · rabbit food

Family

sugar, bombs, sugars, sugared, sugaring, sugary, sugarless, bomb, bombed

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G