Children’s healthier breakfast startup Humble Acre is set to make its debut with Gogo Roos, a no-added-sugar range of cereal.
A cocoa variant will launch at London’s Allergy & Free-From Show in early July in an on-the-go format. Made with crispy rice, chickpea, sweet potato and chicory root, it contains 9.3g of naturally occurring sugar per 100g – compared with the 17.1g of sugar in Cocoa Pops (which contains added sugar).
Packed in a fully recyclable rPET pot, Gogo Roos (rsp: £1.35/40g) would suit parents who were “looking for a portable snack option that works for kids” said Humble Acre founder Michéal Mac Curtain.
It would be joined later in the year by large-format packs of the cereal, and then by other healthier Gogo Roos breakfast lines including an “on-the-go option made with plant-based milk” he added.
The new brand arrives after Action on Sugar found in February that nearly half of child-friendly cereal still received a red traffic light label for their high sugar content – despite Public Health England’s target for manufacturers to reduce sugar by 20% by 2020.
Of the remaining breakfast products, 48% bore amber labels, with only two receiving a green label for being low in sugar.
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