date:Aug 01, 2013
Dry ready-to-eat, sugar-added cereals combine refined sugar and starch. When those carbohydrates are consumed, bacteria in the dental plaque on tooth surfaces produce acids, says Christine Wu, professor of pediatric dentistry and director of cariology, who served as principal investigator of the study.
The research is published in the July issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association.
Reports have shown that eating carbohydrates four times daily, or in quantities greater than 60 gra