New Product Review:

Vanilla Chex

Reviewed by Mr Breakfast on 7/3/2013

New Vanilla Chex cereal is strangely salty. At first, I thought, "Oh, this is interesting... like a nouveau caramel and sea salt combination but with vanilla and cereal." But after a couple spoonfuls, I just found it irritating.

If you can get over the unexpected saltiness, this cereal is alright. It has all the beauty of Rice Chex with a blast of vanilla. The pieces are light and mildly crisp in milk. The vanilla flavor makes a big impact. There's nothing new or exotic about it. It's pretty much what you'd expect it to be.

As the cereal sets in milk, the flavor impression is that the vanilla washes off the cereal pieces leaving you with Rice Chex soaking in vanilla-flavored milk. I actually liked that. The milk that Vanilla Chex leaves behind might be better than the cereal itself.

This new cereal would have been great if they had eased up on the salt just a bit. But as it stands now, Vanilla Chex is little weird.





Nutritional Considerations: Each 3/4 cup serving of Vanilla Chex has 120 calories, 2 grams total fat (0 saturated and 0 trans), 0mg cholesterol, 190mg sodium, 25 grams total carbs, less than 1 gram dietary fiber, 8 grams sugar and 1 gram protein.

The price we paid: $2.99