New Product Review:

Cinnamon Just Bunches!

Reviewed by Mr Breakfast on 2/3/2010

If you've had other varieties of Just Bunches! cereal, this new cereal will taste almost exactly as you imagine it would. It's Cinnamon Just Bunch! No surprises. It's the cereal you know and, likely, love with a pleasing cinnamon flavor.

If you're unfamiliar with the Just Bunches! concept... Post makes a popular cereal called Honey Bunches of Oats. It's comprised of flakes and crunchy oat clusters called "bunches". Just Bunches! cereal is (simply stated) Honey Bunches Of Oats with the flakes removed.

I'm a Just Bunches! fan. I like the Honey Roasted variety (still made) and I enjoyed the short-lived Caramel variety.

I also love cinnamon. A subtitle on the cereal box says, "Nothing but the Delicious Cinnamon Baked Bunches." It's the word "baked" that gives this cereal's flavor a certain special quality. Unlike some other cereals, where a cinnamon-sugar mixture is dusted over the pieces, this cereal really does have a baked-in cinnamon flavor.

The texture of Cinnamon Just Bunches! is similar to many other granola-style cereals, but the flavor is more reminiscent of a cinnamon muffin or a cinnamon waffle. It's a great flavor and it works great in this cereal.

For fans of crunch, I should note that this cereal stayed moderately crunchy in milk for the entire 12 minutes it took me to eat a bowl and write this review.

Overall, I really liked Cinnamon Just Bunches! It's like a dear old friend in a really cool, yet stylishly conservative new suit... a cinnamon friend that I will eat again.

Nutritional Concerns: Each 2/3 cup serving has 250 calories, 7 grams of total fat (0.5 grams saturated and 0 grams trans), 0 mg cholesterol, 75 mg sodium, 42 grams of total carbs, 4 grams of dietary fiber, 14 grams of sugars and 5 grams of protein.




The price we paid: $3.49