Moscow Food Co-op Food Review
Breakfast
Cereal
by Vicki Reich, from the September 2000 Newsletter
When you get five kids together before they've had breakfast to taste-test cereal, what you're offering had better be good. That's just what we did one Sunday morning in August. Robin Ohlgren-Evans and I collected her kids, Taylor and Bryn, plus Henry Edwards, and Andrew and Katie Gammon to test 6 different kids' cereals. If there is one thing about kids that make them perfect for doing a taste-test, it's their brutal honesty. If they don't like something, they'll let you know, and if they do like it they'll eat bowl after bowl.
I brought out the first bag of cereal, Barbara's 'Fruit Punch' (without the box, so the cool pictures wouldn't influence their decisions) and all the kids liked the bright fruit shapes. They thought it was crunchy and sweet (8g of sugars) and tasted like Fruit Loops. No one spit it out, and two of them thought it was the best of the bunch. The second box was Nature's Path 'Koala Crisps.' The Crisps had a very chocolatey taste, which someone thought tasted like candy. The kids didn't think they were sweet enough (9g of sugars) but reminded them of Cocoa Crispies. Possibly because of the low sugar content or the strong cocoa taste, this was not a favorite.
Next up was Mother's 'Peanut Butter Bumpers.' The kids thought these were very 'peanut buttery' and a little like eating peanuts that are soft and fluffy. They were not too sweet (10 g of sugars) but were liked by half the kids. This was the favorite of one of the testers.
Mother's 'Groovy Grahams' was next. Someone said it tasted like Cheerios but sweeter (13g of sugars). They were crunchy with a touch of honey and really good in milk. (I made them try all the cereal dry first and then in milk.) This was the favorite of two of the kids.
The fifth cereal was Barbara's 'Cocoa Stars.' These cute little brown stars are very chocolatey and not too sweet (6.5g of sugars). They were better in milk than dry. Two of the kids liked this cereal, but the other three weren't too excited by it.
The last cereal to be tested was Nature's Path 'Gorilla Munch.' This was the least-liked of the bunch. It was sweet (9g of sugars), but it didn't have much else going for it. None of the taste-testers liked this one.
When all the tasting was over, I brought out the boxes and they all liked the Nature's Path and Mothers boxes, but they wished that natural kids' cereals had toy surprises inside. We all had a great time tasting cereal and the kids were great sports to sit through it and give me good feed back about each cereal. There was quite a range of opinions about each cereal, leading me to believe once again that taste is very individual and you might have to try them all to find the one you like. Hopefully the opinions of these five great kids will help narrow your search for the perfect breakfast.
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