Kellogg's Frosted Flakes — TREAT

Munch or Dump rates Kellogg's Frosted Flakes by Kellogg's TREAT — score 45/90.

Sugar-frosted refined corn with a vitamin spray-tan. The list is short, but sugar is the second ingredient and roughly a third of every bowl. The '8 vitamins and minerals' only show up because refining stripped the corn bare first — this is dessert in a breakfast costume.

Why this verdict

• Sugar is the #2 ingredient — about 12 g in a 37 g serving, a third of the flake by weight
• Milled corn is refined grain: bran and germ stripped out, so the nutrients are sprayed back on afterward
• Zero fat, almost no fiber or protein — fast starch plus sugar with nothing to slow the spike
• NOVA 4 ultra-processed cereal marketed to kids as morning fuel
• To its credit: no artificial colors, no flavor enhancer stacks, no hydrogenated oils — it's honest junk, kept out of DUMP by a genuinely short list

Ingredients (7)

• Milled corn (moderate) — Degerminated refined corn — fiber and germ removed, fast-digesting starch remains.
• Sugar (moderate) — Commonly used sweetener but contributes empty calories.
• malt flavor (moderate) — Barley-derived flavoring — adds a touch more sugar and brings gluten with it.
• Salt (moderate) — ~260mg sodium per packet — sweet AND salty is the palatability play.
• Iron (ferric phosphate) (safe) — Standard fortification mineral
• B vitamins (niacinamide, B6, B2, B1, folic acid, B12) (safe) — Spray-on fortification replacing what refining removed
• vitamin D3 (safe) — Standard US fortification since the 1930s; helps calcium absorption and covers a common deficiency.