Life (cereal) Original Life has been reformulated several times since its introduction, sometimes unsuccessfully. Most recently, in 1997, Quaker introduced a "New and Improved" version; consumer response was unfavorable and Quaker quickly reverted to the original formula. In 2010, Life was featured on the "Eat This, Not That" website. It was categorized as a healthy cereal but was criticized for its content of the yellow food dye "Yellow 5", or tartrazine. The original cereal also contains disodium phosphate, the preservative BHT, yellow 6, and pyridoxine hydrochloride. Life (cereal) Life, stylized as life®, is a breakfast cereal formerly made solely of whole grain
Mr. T Cereal of a packet of Mr. T. stickers, which were packaged inside boxes of the cereal. Some collectors have collected Mr. T. Cereal, and some collectors have retained unopened boxes of it with the cereal still in the box. Mr. T Cereal appeared in the film "Pee Wee's Big Adventure", in which Pee Wee Herman held a box of the cereal and stated "I pity the poor fool that don't eat my cereal." After this, Pee-wee opened the box and poured the cereal over a dish of eggs and pancakes. It is part of the "I pity the fool" catchphrase that