Top 5 Breakfast Cereals You Can Still Defend as an Adult
Cereals that hold up to grown-up judgment, ranked by crunch, how well they last in milk and how little shame they bring to the table.
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Cinnamon Toast Crunch — General Mills
The cinnamon milk at the bottom of the bowl is a second dessert, and anyone who says otherwise is just trying to look healthy.
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Honey Nut Cheerios — General Mills
Respectable enough for a work-from-home breakfast and sweet enough to eat dry by the handful at 10 p.m.
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Frosted Mini-Wheats — Kellogg's
A frosted side for the kid in you and a fiber side for the adult. It's the only cereal that brokers a peace treaty.
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Life — Quaker
Quietly perfect squares that stay crunchy longer than they should. Mikey was right in 1972 and he's still right.
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Grape-Nuts — Post
It has no grapes and no nuts and might chip a molar, but sprinkled on yogurt it's the crunchiest power move in the aisle.