New Product Review:

Strawberry Banana Berry Burst Cheerios

Reviewed by Mr Breakfast on 3/9/2004

Like corn flakes, Cheerios invites the addition of fresh fruit. Fresh bananas and/or strawberries make a good thing even better. But what's the result when the fruit is freeze-dried?

Quick and simple, this new cereal is okay. The pieces of freeze-dried fruit are smaller than in other new cereals doing the same thing. I recently reviewed Kellogg's "Corn Flakes With Real Bananas". My main beef with that cereal was that its freeze-dried banana pieces never fully absorbed the milk - leaving the pieces partial crunchy and un-banana-like. Thanks to Cheerios' smaller pieces, the fruit becomes more like what we're used to. In fact, the banana pieces were a little mushy. My only real complaint with this cereal is that the strawberries pieces are a little bit too tart.

This cereal is no replacement for Cheerios with fresh fruit. If you have the time and the fruit, that is the better option. If you're choosing between cereals with freeze-dried fruit, Strawberry Banana Berry Burst Cheerios is one of the better options.

$3.49 reflects the price of a 13.1 ounce box.

The price we paid: $3.49