A ready to eat breakfast cereal is prepared by coating dried cereal basepieces food pieces with a low sugar sweetener in powder form such as a highconversion maltodextrin or low conversion corn syrup that includes a highpotencysweetener. The cereal is pre-coated with a liquid oil for better adhesion ofthepowdered low sugar sweetener. The low sugar coating has a sugars content oflessthan 10% yet provides taste, texture, appearance and bowl life that mimicspresweetened RTE cereals having a sucrose based coating.
