While "Honey Nut Cheerios" puts the word "Honey" in large bold print on the box, only a tiny amount of honey goes IN the box.

If one reads the ingredients list  
https://cheerios.com/products/honey-nut-cheerios/  

One finds:  "Whole Grain Oats, Sugar, Oat Bran, Corn Starch, Honey, Brown Sugar Syrup, Salt, Tripotassium Phosphate, Rice Bran Oil and/or Canola Oil, Natural Almond Flavor. Vitamin E (mixed tocopherols) Added to Preserve Freshness."

But how much honey?  Well, listing it after corn starch is a dead giveaway that it is a very tiny amount.  The strictly enforced rule is that ingredients must be listed in order of descending percentage, so there's far more sugar than honey, and less honey than corn starch.

More than 2% cornstarch would be insane with oats - most "gluten free" oatmeal cookie recipes call for 1% to 2% cornstarch, and cheerios would need far less, as there is far less moisture in the cheerio mix to absorb and overcome with the cornstarch. Cornstarch replaces the long-chain proteins in gluten that result in "a solid" rather than a "paste" or "runny mess". (I am a graduate/survivor of the grueling month-long King Arthur Flour Baking School in VT.  I bake.)

So, how much honey?  Maybe 1% by weight at most, so for a "37 gram serving", we are talking 0.37 grams.  A box contains 8 servings, so 3 grams per box of Cheerios. 
A US penny weighs 3 grams.  For those outside the USA, 3 of the smallest-sized metal paperclips weigh about 3 grams.

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