Cold Cereals

• Cheerios are a good source of iron.Jupiterimages/Brand X Pictures/Getty Images
  
  Product 19 and Multigrain Cheerios both contain an adult woman's entire iron requirement in one cup of cold cereal: 18 mg. Regular Cheerios are also fortified with iron; there are 6 mg in one cup. Another cold cereal with significant amounts of iron is Kellogg's Smart Start Antioxidant, which, similar to Total, contains 100 percent of an adult's daily iron requirement.
  
  Other iron-rich cold cereals include Total with 18 mg of iron in three quarters of a cup, Ralston Wheat Chex, also with 18 mg per cup, and Quaker Corn Bran and Kellogg's or Post Bran Flakes, each with 8.1 mg of iron per cup.
  
  

Hot Instant Cereals

• Enriched oatmeal is a good source of iron.Jupiterimages/Creatas/Getty Images
  
  Iron-enriched Cream of Wheat has about 6 mg of iron per half cup of prepared cereal. Many enriched baby cereals, such as oatmeal or brown rice cereal, are also high in iron; 6 tablespoons of dry baby cereal contains about 14 mg of iron. Instant oatmeal is usually fortified with iron and can contain between 10.6 and 13.9 mg of iron per packet.
  
  

Cooked Whole Grains

• Cooked whole grains such as quinoa are iron-rich breakfast alternatives.Ryan McVay/Photodisc/Getty Images
  
  You don't have to rely on instant hot cereals. It is easy to cook up hot whole grains at home, and many of these are high in iron. A half cup of oatmeal has 1.9 mg of iron, and other hot cooked grains are even better sources of iron. For example, a cup of cooked quinoa has 6.3 mg of iron, and cooked pearled barley has 2 mg of iron per cup.
  
  

Cereal Supplements

• Cereal toppings such as sunflower seeds are sources of iron.Jupiterimages/liquidlibrary/Getty Images
  
  Toasted wheat germ is an excellent topping for hot cereals, and 2 tablespoons contains 1.3 mg of iron. Kellogg's All Bran can be eaten alone, though it is also delicious added to corn flakes or other cold cereals; All Bran has 4.5 mg of iron per half cup. Adding some sunflower seeds to your oatmeal will add 2.3 mg of iron per quarter cup of sunflower seeds; add a quarter cup of raisins, too, and you will add another 0.8 mg iron to your bowl.