Tasting special in the morning (Kellogg's Special K Purple Berries)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Kellogg's Special K Purple Berries
Date:	05/09/06 (238 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: good low fat

Disadvantages: price

Eh when I was a nipper they only made special k in the plain conventional flavour. Now you can get special K with red berries, purple berries, peach and apricot, yoghurt. This product has recently had a big advertising campaign with “drop a jean size”
No I have not been eating bowls of cereal as a meal substitute but Instead of toast for breakfast recently I have been eating special K for breakfast. I though it was probably healthier than the toast with butter dripping from it and lashings of marmalade. Special K states these cereals are 99% fat free.


Just recently I have has the purple berry variety to eat. As with the other special k cereals I find it a little sweet so usually put in a few bran flakes. This is much better makes an enjoyable breakfast.
The packet this cereal is in is a distinctive packet with the special K logo surrounded with a few cereal flakes and some purple berries. I pour some cereal into a bowl and the special k flakes fall into it with a few pieces of freeze dried fruit
The purple berries are blackberries, blueberries, and blackcurrants. Not many pieces of fruit 5% I read on packet. I occasionally add some fresh fruits to my bowl of cereal we had masses of raspberries this year so I added some.
Think me strange but I do not eat milk with my cereal but the normal person would add some milk.
Now to eat my breakfast, the flakes of cereal are crispy and crunchy a little sweet.
The blackberries are nice still fairly large and juicy tasted like blackberries. The black currants a smaller fruit still tasted like black currants, they were a little chewy. The blueberries well could not discern much taste and they were hollow dry fruits, I guess the larger fruits freeze dry with better results. I thought the fruit mix was good shall be adding a few of my own blackberries to it maybe. Over all I like this cereal, think I prefer the peach and apricot one though.
I do not eat this cereal as a slimming aid so can not tell you about that. If you have dairy or what allergy do not eat as special K contains milk ingredients
Contains wheat Contains barley however it is a cereal suitable for vegetarians
ingredients
Rice, Sugar, Wheat (Whole-wheat, Wheat Flour), Wheat Gluten, Sweetened Freeze Dried Fruit (5%)(Blackcurrant, Blackberry, Blueberry, Sugar, Flavouring), Dried Skimmed Milk, Defatted Wheat germ, Salt, Barley Malt Flavouring, Vitamin C, Niacin, Iron, Vitamin B6, Riboflavin (B2), Thiamine (B1), Folic Acid, Vitamin D, Vitamin B12
The recommended bowl is 30g this served with 125ml skimmed milk has
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Protein 8g
Carbohydrate 20g
Energy 171 kcal
protien8gFat 2.5g
Sodium 0.3g
Salt 0.75g

I would recommend this cereal for breakfast but it is a bit sweet so needs those added bran flakes. I have heard of people having success with losing weight eating the 2 meals a day recommendations, maybe I ought to try it get rid of my excess wobbly bits.

Summary: a low fat cereal with freeze dried fruits