# Good "Frosted Mini Wheats Cereal?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 24, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-frosted-mini-wheats-cereal/583040 "2011-05-24T18:18:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-frosted-mini-wheats-cereal/583040/1 "2011-05-24T18:18:13Z")
Does anyone know of a “frosted mini wheats” fortified cereal that’s made without high-fructose corn syrup but that still gets you your 90% RDV of iron? ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-frosted-mini-wheats-cereal/583040/2 "2011-05-24T18:25:44Z")
Maybe the Trader Joe’s version. They come in Vanilla, Maple/Brown Sugar and.,… crap, something else. I’m not 100% sure they don’t contain HFCS, you’de have to check the label. ---
**Author:** ![iftheresaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecae2f/32.png) [@iftheresaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iftheresaway)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-frosted-mini-wheats-cereal/583040/3 "2011-05-24T18:35:38Z")
[Malt-o-meal frosted mini spooners.](http://www.malt-o-meal.com/products/cold-cereals/malt-o-meal-frosted-mini-spooners.php) They use sugar, not HFCS, have 90% RDV iron, and I can personally attest to at least the strawberry ones being super-delicious. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-frosted-mini-wheats-cereal/583040/4 "2011-05-24T18:37:33Z")
Ditch the frosting. My spoon-sized shredded wheats (store brand) have as their ingredient list ‘wheat.’ That’s it. And they are boring as all hell, but they agree with my carb targets. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-frosted-mini-wheats-cereal/583040/5 "2011-05-24T18:37:56Z")
Moved to CS from GQ. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-frosted-mini-wheats-cereal/583040/6 "2011-05-24T20:00:51Z")
I remember back in the day, the iron content of most cereals was iron filings that you could see by running a magnet over the contents. Is that still true? ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-frosted-mini-wheats-cereal/583040/7 "2011-05-24T20:16:49Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > I remember back in the day, the iron content of most cereals was iron filings that you could see by running a magnet over the contents. Is that still true? I remember doing this in high school chemistry (separating out the iron by boiling the cereal to mush and using a magnetic stirrer). However, we were taught that the total amount of iron in the cereal would not be nutritious, ingesting it would lead to some amount being taken up by the body. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-frosted-mini-wheats-cereal/583040/8 "2011-05-24T21:56:17Z")
I recently tried [Kashi Island Vanilla](http://www.kashi.com/products/kashi_whole_wheat_biscuits_island_vanilla) cereal and it’s delicious and has no HFCS. Sadly, however, it is not fortified with iron, so it doesn’t meet that criterion. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-frosted-mini-wheats-cereal/583040/9 "2011-05-26T06:08:17Z")
> [@iftheresaway](#): > > [Malt-o-meal frosted mini spooners.](http://www.malt-o-meal.com/products/cold-cereals/malt-o-meal-frosted-mini-spooners.php) They use sugar, not HFCS, have 90% RDV iron, and I can personally attest to at least the strawberry ones being super-delicious. This is what I was going to mention. I was suprised that HFCS was being used in any version. It’s frosted: that means powdered sucrose. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-frosted-mini-wheats-cereal/583040/10 "2011-05-26T10:07:30Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > Ditch the frosting. My spoon-sized shredded wheats (store brand) have as their ingredient list ‘wheat.’ That’s it. And they are boring as all hell, but they agree with my carb targets. Yep. Just get the plain, and if you must sprinkle some sugar, you’re likely to use a lot less. Personally, I loves me some frozen blueberries on my breakfast cereal, they thaw out almost instantly when the milk hits them.