New Product Review:

Strawberry Medley All-Bran

Reviewed by Mr Breakfast on 6/24/2008

The American Heritage Dictionary defines a medley as "an often jumbled assortment; a mixture" and that's exactly what this cereal is. Strawberry Medley All-Bran is a combination of bran flakes, bran squares, granola clusters and freeze-dried strawberry pieces.

Sounds fun, right? Unfortunately, this particular mishmash isn't as fun as you might think.

It has a few good things going for it. When you open the box, you get an inviting whiff of strawberry. When you're eating the cereal, the strawberry pieces are actually very good. Sadly, they're the only thing that's very good.

The flakes and squares in the cereal are particularly bland. If "dry" were a flavor, that's what I'd use to describe them.

I'll admit that I liked the first couple bites of this cereal. The strawberry flavor is undeniable and it adds a lot to spoonfuls that have strawberry pieces. But as you eat more and more of the cereal, the non-descript, bland, dry flavor of the main cereal pieces begins to overwhelm the strawberry flavor and the result is dull bowl of cereal.

To make matters worse, the bran flakes retain their texture in milk better than the squares. By the end of the bowl, everything that seemed fun about mixing cereal pieces together just seems sad... it was a bowl of mildly mushy flakes paired with extremely mushy squares.

As for the granola cluster pieces...

Minutes ago, I finished a small bowl of Strawberry Medley All-Bran and I swear on my mother, I don't think I encountered a single granola cluster. Dismayed, I took handfuls of the dry cereal out of the box to examine the pieces. Finally by the third handful, I saw a few random oats... clusters they were not.

To it's favor, this cereal does provide 10 grams of dietary fiber per 1 cup serving.

The price we paid: $3.89