The Americans solved the problem of breakfast cereal being essentially shaped and processed cardboard by coating it in sugar*. I have little moral fibre, of course, and long since gave up trying to corral my urges. I eat toast smothered with proper salty butter.
*Every now and again, when in the US, I'll grab of a little packet of Cheerios or similar just remind myself of how sugary they are. Basically, if you can get to the end of the bowl, you'll be bobbing up and down like you're on the wrong dose of antipsychotics and your eyes will be spinning like a fruit machine during a power surge with words falling out of your mouth like you've just hit the jackpot. I'm sure that if you plot the uptick in attention disorders in American youth next to breakfast cereal consumption you'll have a nice linear correlation.