Saturday, April 27, 2013

Aiming Toward Average, Honey Bunches Of Oats Crispy Peach Flakes & Crunchy Raspberry Granola Fruit Blends Cereal Is A Tough Sell For Post!


The Good: Fairly nutritious, Tastes good, Affordable
The Bad: Not the most distinctive taste, Nothing superlative
The Basics: Post Honey Bunches Of Oats Crispy Peach Flakes & Crunchy Raspberry Granola Fruit Blends cereal franchises the popular Honey Bunches Of Oats in a surprisingly mediocre way.


When it comes to cereals, I have a tough time not seeing corporate greed everywhere. I mean, I love cereal, but for the last several years, when a company has a legitimately good cereal that becomes (as much as these things can) a breakfast phenomenon, they almost immediately begin creating variations of the cereal in an attempt to grab a larger piece of the marketshare. I suppose the business concept is “If you like Cheerios, we want to entice you into trying one of these eight other types of Cheerios, as opposed to picking up a box of Quaker Life cereal.” But, given how the market will suddenly be flooded with variations of a cereal and they will go through promotion phases and then 95% (or more) invariably end up being blown out on clearance or at the local Big Lots, it just strikes me as greedy. The cereal companies are in competition with one another and none are happy just making a solid cereal that gets x% of the breakfast cereal dollar and leave it at that.

Right now, Honey Bunches Of Oats is going through that explosion of experimental flavors and one that I am utterly convinced will end up being clearance any day now is the Honey Bunches Of Oats Crispy Peach Flakes & Crunchy Raspberry Granola Fruit Blends cereal.

Honey Bunches Of Oats Crispy Peach Flakes & Crunchy Raspberry Granola Fruit Blends cereal is a flake-based cereal with tiny, less flavorful additives than the traditional Honey Bunches Of Oats. And it is fair, but it is not exceptional in any way.

Basics

Post Honey Bunches Of Oats Crispy Peach Flakes & Crunchy Raspberry Granola Fruit Blends cereal is a relatively new cereal with flakes of corn. It looks like a very typical collection of flakes, most about 1/2” to 3/4” in two directions, thin and textured, with most of the small flakes being slightly curved. Honey Bunches Of Oats cereal now comes in several different varieties, designed to give dieters more variety while they lose weight.

The standard box of Honey Bunches Of Oats Crispy Peach Flakes & Crunchy Raspberry Granola Fruit Blends cereal is 14.5 oz. That represents approximately fourteen servings and I was able to get a little over twelve servings and a generous helping of crumbs and cereal dust out of the box I bought. In addition to having traditional flakes that have a light sheen from honey, Crispy Peach Flakes & Crunchy Raspberry Granola Fruit Blends cereal features a smattering of oats, some of which have tiny red pieces one suspects are supposed to be related to raspberries.

Ease Of Preparation

Honey Bunches Of Oats Crispy Peach Flakes & Crunchy Raspberry Granola Fruit Blends cereal is a breakfast cereal, so this is one of the low-impact breakfast options as far as preparation goes! Simply open the box of Honey Bunches Of Oats Crispy Peach Flakes & Crunchy Raspberry Granola Fruit Blends cereal, pour out 3/4 cup (I’ve taken to using a measuring cup) and add 1/2 cup of milk to it. I have discovered, as part of getting healthy, that one of the biggest challenges one might have with breakfast cereal is actually eating the serving size recommended by the manufacturer. Given that I have been monitoring my intake for several weeks now, I am now able to enjoy only 2/3 cup of Honey Bunches Of Oats Crispy Peach Flakes & Crunchy Raspberry Granola Fruit Blends cereal in a sitting, though it is not as filling as some other cereals I have had.

For the purposes of my reviews, and my regular consumption, I only use skim milk (fat free) milk with cereal.

Taste

The Honey Bunches Of Oats Fruit Blends with Crispy Peach Flavored Flakes and Crunchy Raspberry flavored granola clusters smells appropriately fruity. The scent is very inviting and insinuates well how the cereal will taste.

The flakes are light and very sweet. The flavor is the perfect embodiment of peach. The light and fruity flavor is sweet and distinctive. As for the crunchy raspberry flavored granola clusters are a bit more grainy than actually fruity, but the aftertaste is lightly that of raspberry.

With milk, the fruit flavors blend and becomes a sweet mix that is far less distinct. Oddly, the peach flavor overwhelms the rest and both flavors are carried by the milk. The result is that the flakes are very dry and grainy while the milk is flavored.

Nutrition

Post Honey Bunches Of Oats Crispy Peach Flakes & Crunchy Raspberry Granola Fruit Blends cereal is pretty nutritious on its own and with skim milk. Made primarily of corn, whole grain wheat, and whole grain rolled oats, there is nothing unpronounceable in Honey Bunches Of Oats Crispy Peach Flakes & Crunchy Raspberry Granola Fruit Blends cereal. Given that there is a separate listing of vitamins and minerals, I suspect that Honey Bunches Of Oats Crispy Peach Flakes & Crunchy Raspberry Granola Fruit Blends cereal is one of those cereals where the nutrients are then sprayed onto the cereal, making it important to drink the milk with this cereal in order to get all of the nutritional benefits out of it.

A single serving of Post Honey Bunches Of Oats Crispy Peach Flakes & Crunchy Raspberry Granola Fruit Blends cereal is 30 grams, 3/4 cup. In that serving, there are 120 calories, with 15 calories coming from fat. There is no saturated fat in this cereal, nor is there any cholesterol. With only 135 mg of sodium and a gram of dietary fiber, this is a good dietary choice for those striving to improve heart health. With two grams of protein and 55mg potassium, Crispy Peach Flakes & Crunchy Raspberry Granola Fruit Blends is very healthy. On its own, this cereal has significant percentages of seven vitamins and minerals.

Storage/Cleanup

Honey Bunches Of Oats Crispy Peach Flakes & Crunchy Raspberry Granola Fruit Blends is a cereal, so as long as it is kept sealed in its box, it ought to remain fresh for quite some time. The box of Honey Bunches Of Oats Crispy Peach Flakes & Crunchy Raspberry Granola Fruit Blends cereal we purchased on April 15, 2013 had an expiration date of August 17, 2013, so it is not the most enduring cereal on the market. Obviously, when you are done pouring the cereal from the box, fold down the plastic inner wrap to help maintain the cereal’s freshness.

Cleaning up after Honey Bunches Of Oats Crispy Peach Flakes & Crunchy Raspberry Granola Fruit Blends cereal is simple as well. Simply brush away crumbs left by it and you are done! It is that simple! This is a cereal that does not even discolor the milk added to it!

Overall

Honey Bunches Of Oats Crispy Peach Flakes & Crunchy Raspberry Granola Fruit Blends cereal is not as flavorful as I would hope for for a cereal trading on having fruit added to it. I found myself wanting more . . . and wishing Post had just stuck to the cereal it had done right.

For other breakfast cereals, please be sure to check out my reviews of:
Fiber One Honey Squares
Kellogg's Krave Double Chocolate
Cap'N Crunch's Limited Edition Christmas Crunch

4.5/10

For other food reviews, please visit my Food Review Index Page for an organized listing of all the food reviews I have written!

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