# Individual serving boxes of cereal

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 9, 2006, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/individual-serving-boxes-of-cereal/363734 "2006-07-09T14:31:37Z")\
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Examples of the individual-serving-in-a-bowl cereal package:  
[Kellogg’s Rice Krispies](http://www.minimus.biz/detail.aspx?ID=998)  
[Cheerios](http://www.minimus.biz/detail.aspx?ID=672)

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[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.]  
It’s 80 or 90, depending on the cereal. I like Total. When they run ot of that I eat Wheaties, then Cheerios.  
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Per [Cecil](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_114c.html) it’s not that manufacturers are trying to create a 90 or 110 calorie serving. It’s that cereals are mostly protein and carbohydrates, which are 4 calories per gram, and maybe some fiber (counts as 0 calories). So it doesn’t matter what shape, color or flavor you make it, the basic contents of cereal are going to determine the calories.

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