I'd say that Kellogg's loves our money more than they care a whit about our health
Having worked in the processed food industry for 13 years or so there are a couple of general pointers to indicate that your use of the word 'whit' is an overstatement.
In the thousands of meetings I've been at in which production efficiency, yield, new product development,packaging design, etc. have been discussed (ad nauseum) I have never once heard the word 'nutrition' being mentioned. Not once.
Processed food production axiom: "Water is only slightly more expensive than air. Flour only slightly more expensive that water. The more of each of these things you can pack into the product the better"
There is nothing that a manufacturer will not do to add weight to meat. Ingredient declarations are not a barrier to this (you could use cyanide as a 'processing aid' and not have to declare it in the ingredients)
Our current quality manager refuses to eat processed food in which direct handling-by-humans forms any portion of it's manufacture.
Our last quality manager refused to eat green leaf vegetables. He came from a green leaf plant processing plant. He never said why though
If it says "serve piping hot" it ain't kidding
The ranking structure of the 3 main operational manager in a typical food processing factory: Production Manager > Engineering Manager > Quality Manager.
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