So, if someone were taking a multi-vitamin everyday, with Vitamin E (alpha tocopherol), having some Cheerios (or insert your favorite breakfast cereal here) for breakfast and then later that day having a handful of nuts (and oils) for a snack later in the day, then that would be OK, in terms of safe levels of alpha tocopherol (daily)?
If the study you linked says something negative about alpha tocopherol, rather than gamma, I didnât see it in the abstract. There are numerous studies and reviews discussing safe levels of Vitamin E, and there is a maximum, rather than more is always better. However, Vitamin E used as a preservative (not as fortification for 100% of RDA) in cereal is a negligible contribution towards that maximum. This tangent is getting far from the original thread topic. I will not reply further.
The amount of Vitamin E, as preservative, in "ready-to-eat"cereals, varies cereal to cereal. Also, humans vary in size.
And none of the current research convinces me that preservatives, in this case in cereals, are safe. The FDA stating that they may be safe is, well, not making me feel warm and fuzzy.
This is why grocery shopping can be very painful for me. 
And why I stay away from packaged foods.
Moving on!
As a kid I ate every terrible and toxic cereal you can imagine. I was the Jerry Seinfeld of cereal lovers in my childhood.
Fruity Pebbles
Honey Smacks
Frosted Flakes
Count Chocula and his cohort of jolly monster friends
Any and all Capân Crunch (My fave, especially classic Capân)
Lucky Charms
Trix
Sugar Pops
Alphabits
Quisp
Honeycomb
Apple Jacks
I am sure to live a long time because I grew up on preservatives
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Thank You! I donât even understand these people who didnât eat copious amounts of cereal in their childhoods.
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I must have been a weird kid. Forget all that sugary stuff, give me a bowl of Grape Nuts with cold milk! 
I liked my sugar in ice cream or in brownies. 
Still not a fan of most candy, cookies,
or cakes.
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And my mom put things like Ding Dongs and Little Debbies in our school lunches.
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Not us, we were raised on hippie food. Whole wheat pasta, home grown alfalfa sprouts on/in everything, tofu and tempeh and textured vegetable protein, Complementary Pie from âDiet for a Small Planet,â ⊠so of course we didnât get boxed cereal or commercially made sweet items as a regular thing.
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As a kid:
- Lucky Charms
- Frosted Mini-Wheats
- Fruity Pebbles
- Cookie Crisp
- Apple Jacks
- Mini-Wheats with fruit in the middle
- Raisin Nut Bran
- Captân Crunch Peanut Butter
Older kid (or whenever they came out):
- Reeseâs Peanut Butter Puffs
My general rule of thumb for the kid (and myself) is that there should be more grams of fiber and protein than sugar, though there are occasional exceptions.
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Twinkies and Zingers. Preferably lemon or raspberry. Yummmm.
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TwinkiesâŠah yes! But I swear when I was little, the cream wasâŠcream. We refrigerated Twinkies to prevent the cream from getting sour.
I still occasionally get a box of Frosted Flakes. Not very often, but sometimes. And I donât share. They are great with sliced bananas.
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Oh, how could I forget Twinkies!
And then there are Pop Tarts; you had to have the ones with icing!
My husband sometimes would add Frosted Flakes to the top of his Raisin Bran. Since the doctorâs lounge would usually have the individual boxes of cereal, he would bring them home to have around.
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My husband would eat Frosted Flakes, and put many teaspoons of sugar on them! Even in his late 30s he would put 6 teaspoons of sugar in his coffee! Now he drinks it black, and heâs down to eating âmore healthyâ but not perfect cereals. He eats mostly cinnamon Life and multi-grain Cheerios. But he would be happy eating cereal for dinner. Itâs like his comfort food.
When my kids were young they thought theyâd won the lottery when they were allowed to have Honey Nut Cheerios. Then my (now) husband came into their lives and they learned about all the sugar cereals, AND donuts.
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Never big on eating sugary desserts as a kid, though I always ate the sugary cereals. People noted I was wired for the first class, then crashed. Froot Loops was my go to in high school.
In other news, water is wet. 
Back before there were so many individually packaged snacks and granola bars, one of our car snacks with the kids was Pop Tarts, no icing. LOL - one day one of them went to a sleepover and came home exclaiming - âWOW! Did you know that Pop Tarts have flavors with icing? AND you can heat them in the toaster!!â
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I donât eat much cereal on the regular but it is something I often crave after being sick.
Recently Iâve been enjoying this cereal that Costco carries on and off, along with a sliced banana for a quick breakfast or dessert
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I grew up on Crunch Berries, Lucky Charms, Fruit Loops and Frosted Flakes. No Cheerios for shredded wheat for me! I ate a frosted poptart for breakfast every day from 7th grade until I started driving myself to swimming in the mornings jr year. Then my breakfast of champions became a king sized bag of Skittles and a Big Gulp of Diet Coke from 7-11.
Iâm still here lol. Funny my kids didnât eat cereal growing up. It was $$$ for us even back then. Iâm not sure what they ate lol. They did grow up.
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Letâs see - for me it was Lucky Charms and Cocoa Krispies! Only during middle school. Then it was Carnation Instant Breakfast or Figurine bars in high school. I was at the grocery and did you know you can buy just the marshmallow charms? I almost bought a package but then I thought better of it. Pop Tarts are good running fuel.
The book âSalt, Sugar, Fatâ (Michael Moss) lays out the case for how food manufacturers have created a society of the obese and unhealthy as the result of added salt, sugar and fats in processed foods. A good read.
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