New Product Review:

Simply Maize

Reviewed by Mr Breakfast on 4/18/2012

Simply Maize is simply bland. It's a puffed corn flake cereal flavored with molasses. The taste is similar to Corn Pops minus the sweetness.

The flakes have a nice initial crunch, but as you chew they start to feel feel tough and gritty with a tendency to get stuck in the crevices of your teeth.

I understand a cereal that wants to exploit the flavor and goodness of corn. But to really get the best out of most simple flavors, you need something to contrast them to. Presumably, that contrasting flavor was meant to be molasses but there's just not enough to make any kind of impact. The resulting flavor is corn, nothing more and nothing less. I guess that was the point.

The one thing this cereal succeeds at is making almost every other corn flake from almost every other company seem like a flavor extravaganza compared to the blandness here.

The nutritional profile of this cereal is not impressive enough to make you bored silly at breakfast. There's only 2 grams of dietary fiber and 2 grams protein. For a better Kashi cereal, try their Golden Goodness flakes. Simply skip Simply Maize.




Nutritional Considerations: Each 3/4 cup serving has 100 calories, 1 gram total fat (0 trans and 0 saturated), 22 grams total carbs, 2 grams dietary fiber, 3 grams sugar and 2 grams protein.

The price we paid: $3.99