Cereals In Children

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When comparing Children and Adult Cereals, it is evident that adult cereals have significantly more carbohydrates than children cereals. The reason for this is rather obvious. Complex-carbohydrates take longer for the body to breakdown, so naturally children need less throughout the day while adults would need more to keep them active. Fourteen children cereals have between 11-14 grams of carbs per-serving. This equals out to eighteen-percent (18%) of all children's cereals. These numbers were chosen as they contain the mean, the mode, and the median, all of which represent an accurate summary of child cereals. These numbers are the only high-ratios on the entire histogram for children, with a few outliers being (21-22) and (22-23). The

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