Kellogg's Raisin Wheats
Kellogg's Raisin Wheats - Kellogg's Raisin Wheats Breakfast

Product Type: Kellogg's Breakfast

Newest Review: ... while still feeling quite healthy. They come in an attractive purple 500g box which is quite small, and the cereal is also quite heavy so ... more

Kellogg's Raisin Wheats
Kellogg's Raisin Wheats

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Kellogg's Raisin Wheats

Date: 12/05/09, updated on 12/05/09 (143 review reads)

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Advantages: Something a bit different

Disadvantages: When too soggy, avoid

So, having got the day off work, I've taken it upon myself to come up with a couple of new reviews to keep the 'fans' happy! First off...breakfast time.

Now, I'm hardly a connoisseur when it comes to breakfast cereal, and it was heartbreaking to find out that it appears DooYoo doesn't have a review page for Kellogg's Ricicles?! This is a travesty, and had there of been one, you lucky people would be learning about something that is simply frosted Rice Krispies right now. Thankfully however, one of the few other cereals I'm not sick off after years of eating that is on DooYoo is the much forgotten Raisin Wheat.

Made by Kellogg's, (who else?!) inbetween it's workers only doing half days on Friday (inclusion of a current affairs topic - bonus marks) they also came up with this little number. The cereal is made from shredded wholegrain wheat, with each individual parcel filled with a raisin centre. Bigger that your average cereal piece (if such an average exists) they measure about 1 inch in length by about three-quarters of that in width. Naturally, the box it all comes in is your run-of-the-mill 500g size. All packaged in a rather striking purple motif.

Now, here's the scientific part - the ingredient. As you'd like to expect with all cereals, there aren't many ingredients...yet for this little number, there are probably a few to many to make first-time parents sleep easy at night...

Shredded Wholewheat, Raisins (23%), Glycerine, Niacin, Iron, Vitamin B6, Riboflavin (B2), Thiamin (B1), Folic Acid, Vitamin B12.

...Well, at least there's a lot of vitamins in amongst whatever glycerine and folic acid are...

From a consumption point of view, I often find the last few 'wheats' in the bowl a bit too much to eat as they're soggy and completed saturated with milk, making them taste more like damp tissue paper with a Sunmaid Raisin stuffed inside. Those with too little milk are dry like Gandhis flip-flop, so there's a specific median that is required. Not too wet, not too dry. (It appears I'm making it sound like eating this cereal as a thankless task! It is delicious, honest!)

Now, to sum it up, I naturally went to Wikipedia for information on the cereal. Naturally it gave me nothing of use to me whatsoever, apart from the fact that, apparently, the "cereal has been subsequently manufactured by numerous other suppliers under a generic brand, often in supermarkets' "own brand" range - in the United Kingdom, Tesco, Sainsbury's and Waitrose have all produced their own versions of the cereal." Well, that's something nice for us all to know if we're watching the purse strings and rather than eating supermarket's own brand wood shavings (or 'corn flakes' if you will) you can find something a little more extravagant.

Just don't leave them in the milk too long.

Summary: A delicious cereal review for you all!