New Product Review:

Chocolate Cheerios

Reviewed by Mr Breakfast on 1/27/2010

I wanted to love Chocolate Cheerios. A quick look at the box and it seems like a no-brainer. Chocolate plus Cheerios... of course... what took them so long? The cereal is even pretty to look at with it's two tone cereal pieces of tan and brown. Someday, I'd like to do my kitchen cabinets in those colors. But you know what WON'T be going in the kitchen cabinets of my future... I'm sad to report... Chocolate Cheerios.

Chocolate Cheerios is short on chocolate. It's strange. The milk left over at the bottom of the bowl is very chocolatey... wonderfully chocolatey. I'd buy it in a bottle. Unfortunately, the gustatory trip to get to the end of a bowl is not a very fun experience.

The whole grain corn and oat flavors of the cereal pieces seem to compete with the chocolate rather than work with it. The loser of the competition is the chocolate. The result is a sweet, burnt, corny oat flavor with a sad touch of chocolate.

If you've ever tried to make chocolate muffins healthier by using whole wheat flour, you'll understand the flavor here. Mixing whole grains and chocolate is tricky business. If the flavor of your flour overpowers your chocolate, your muffins are duds.

This cereal is a dud. In it's current incarnation, this combination of chocolate and Cheerios simply does not work.

Nutritional considerations: Each 3/4 cup serving of Chocolate Cheerios has 100 calories, 1 gram of fat (0 trans and 0 saturated), 0 mg cholesterol, 23 grams total carbs, only 1 gram of dietary fiber, 9 grams of sugars, and 1 gram of protein.




The price we paid: $2.99