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I bought box of Morning Summit cereal ($13) because it was packaged as a healthy breakfast cereal showing big bowl of cereal, almonds, cranberries, cherries, pumpkin seeds, etc. on front of box.

I came home from thisnplace and had a big bowl that night around 930 pm. … See More
During the night I was unable to sleep because of painful burning in my stomach throughout the night. 🔥 It felt like my stomach was on fire and kept me awake all night, tossing and turning.

I thought it was a new toothpaste I had accidentally swallowed before bed. My stomach was still burning in the morning, and tapered off about noon. I felt bad all day, from no sleep and writhing through the night.

Next time I ate the cereal, I just had a little and didn’t notice as severe burning, but had other food on my stomach. I was convinced I had ulcers. Thought it was because of stress, didn’t think I was that stressed, never had ulcers before. But was certain that is what ulcers must feel like.

Today, I had a big bowl again, and ate on an empty stomach. I noticed when I was eating, my lips would be burning 🔥 when they were wet with the milk when I would eat a spoonful of the cereal. The same firey feeling. It was very noticeable, almost painful. Lips would not burn when not when not touching the milk. When I would eat a spoonful of cereal and lips touch milk, burning. I finished the bowl of cereal anyway. (Mind you, the cereal was not particularly tasty, it didn’t have much taste at all, I was just hungry and it was filling.)

About an hour and a half or so after I downed the cereal I noticed I started to get a funny feeling in my stomach again. 😳 Then my stomach started burning, 🔥 it makes you draw up, you also get a slight headache and feel somewhat weak. I was out shopping and it made me move slowly, like a person might do if they had bad menstrual cramps. My stomach started burning badly. That’s when I decided it definitely was the Morning Summit cereal and I definitely would be returning it to Costco.

But … not before checking the ingredients on the box. So I checked the ingredients on the box. Sure enough, this super mega healthy cereal says at the bottom of the ingredients list “contains bioengineered food ingredients,” below that is says “Ask.GeneralMills.Com.”

So I go to “Ask.GeneralMills.Com” and it explains how all foods in the US contain bioengineered foods, and if you eat anything that contains sugar or soy or corn or any other product made from seed it is most likely made from bioengineered seed and how use of bioengineered seeds have been approved globally and in the US and by the FDA and by the USDA for 20 years, blah blah blah .. in other words, it’s all perfectly acceptable and perfectly reasonable ..

EXCEPT, EVERYTIME I EAT YOUR BIOENGINEERED GMO PRODUCT I FEEL LIKE I AM GOING TO DIE, LIKE I AM BEING POISONED!

Don’t tell me every ingredient in your list that was produced from bioengineered seed is perfectly normal and good.

MY BODY TELLS ME OTHERWISE!!!!!

ALSO - I do NOT believe for a second all the hype out on the internet about how ‘great’ this ‘Morning Summit’ cereal is. Those have got to be fake paid marketing reviews.

The cereal has No taste, it is flat as cardboard. Of course It has no taste, it is not real food. It’s lab food. Bioengineered GMO food. Plus it burns your stomach.

So no, I don’t believe the fake reviews. Somebody’s trying to make a lot of money on a lab created seed product that doesn’t come from the earth and is impermeable to normal environmental threats, like pests, disease and bad weather conditions. That may mean big profits for big corporations. But unfortunately, it’s not healthy or tasty for us. Plus it’s way ridiculously overpriced for what you are getting; cardboard food look-a-like that burns your stomach, $13 a box. Um, no.

Buy at your own risk!

I hope this honest review helps someone else!

…. Headed back to this store ASAP.  | Symptoms: Cramps, Headache, Weakness, Stomach Pain
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My partner and i suddenly came down with stomach sickness within hours of eating the cereal when we purchased it a few weeks ago but we werent sure what was causing it for sure as it could have been anything the past day or so before then … See More
and we generally both eat the same things. We have now traced back the few days we have had stomach sickness the past few weeks and the only common food is the cereal (both almond and honey crunch flavours) every time. we stopped eating the cereal after 2 or 3x but my partner had some of the cereal today and suddenly he had stomach sickness within 6 hours of eating the cereal whereas i didnt have any and am not sick.

also we dont use the same kinds of milks in our cereal so its not the milks (almond & soy which we have daily and are never sick from).

its the cereals.  | Symptoms: Nausea, Diarrhea
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#realcanadiansuperstore #nuts #generalmills #oatmealcrisp #northvancouver #britishcolumbia #ca #honey #milk #soy #cereal

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My daughter gets intense stomach pains whenever she eats General Mills cereals at her grandparent's house. We've experienced this with both Honey Nut Cheerios and Golden Grahams. These symptoms don't occur when she eats Trader Joe's Honey O's or other brands with similar cereals.  | Symptoms: Stomach Pain

#generalmills #cedarrapids #iowa #us #honey #ham #generalmills #cheerios #goldengrahams #cereal

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Me and my brother both experienced symptoms from eating Lucky Charms. He had stomach cramps and nausea. I had a quick bout of diarrhea. Can I get a refund???

02/27 update: Symptoms ceased after we stopped eating the cereal. We're just buying a different brand of cereal now.  | Symptoms: Nausea, Diarrhea, Cramps

#luckycharms #generalmills #beaumont #texas #us #broth #luckycharms #cereal

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Kroger, West Washington Street, Indianapolis, IN, USA

1 year ago reported by user-bwnqx294

on December 23 2022 my wife bought a bag of General Mills Lucky Charms cereal the version in the bag not the box and i ate a bowl of it for breakfast every morning and about half way through the bag i started to feel ill after … See More
eating a bowl of it my stomach began to hurt and feel strange then i began feeling like something was bubbling its way back up my throat so i ran for the toilet the moment i got to the toilet i started gagging and then i started throwing up something that was colorful and tasted like the lucky charms i had just ate i puked up the whole bowl i had ate after that i was too scared to eat any more of it thinking something in me didn't agree with the cereal, then a week later on December 30 2023 she bought a bag of General Mills Reese's Puffs cereal which i started eating a bowl for breakfast every morning cause i was still to scared to eat the lucky charms cereal by January 10 2023, 30 minutes after finishing a good bowl of the Reese's Puffs cereal i started to feel that same feeling again like the one i felt after eating the Lucky Charms cereal thinking maybe if i just sit here a minute or 2 maybe it will go away then a minute later i felt the same something bubbling its way up my throat feeling so i ran to the toilet passing by my son running to the toilet once again the moment i got to it all i can say is a scene from the Exorcist movie i projectile puking out Reese's Puffs cereal all in the toilet the whole bowl of Reese's Puffs i ate and now its January the 12 2023 and everything i eat i end up throwing it back up and another symptom has has been happening i have loads of gas (i fart a lot. now Lucky Charms and Reese's Puffs are both my favorite cereals my kids love them too lucky my kids didn't get a chance to eat some before I got sick from the cereal cause they were going to school and eating there each of those times but i have something to say to General Mills cereal company "you made me a loyal costumer terrified to eat anymore of your cereal brands... Please find the cause for these illnesses and fix it... PLEASE!... until the problem is solved me and my family will be only buying Malt O Meal brand cereals from now on" thank you all for listening  | Symptoms: Nausea, Vomiting, Stomach Pain, Gas
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#reeses #generalmills #luckycharms #kroger #indianapolis #indiana #us #bowl #generalmills #malt-o-meal #luckycharms #reesespuffs #reeses #cereal

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I just bit into something hard and super bitter while eating Lucky Charms cereal. I googled to see if there were other reports of it and found this site. It was hard like a pill and it had an awful taste. I spit it in the sink … See More
after swallowing some of it but could not identify it as it was chewed. I am throwing the 2 boxes I bought in the trash and praying I don't get sick in the next few days as others reported they had.  | Symptoms: Other
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#generalmills #goldenvalley #minnesota #us #luckycharms #cereal

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