Review of New Chocolate Cheerios

Whenever I come across something new in the cereal department, I pick it up and take it home with me. I find that when it comes to breakfast cereals, we have been subjected to the same boring flavors we have had for years. Chocolate, nuts, or fruity bits.


I like when companies think outside of the box, and deliver newer things every once in awhile...even if those newer things are repeats of cereals we have already tried (ex. Cocoa Puffs vs. Cocoa Pebbles).

I was aware that Cheerios have been trying to add a new selection of Cheerios, however every single newly added flavor from Cheerios that I have tried have all been pretty nasty as far as flavor goes. It seems Cheerios are the only cereal you can't do much with. They are best as originals or as honey nut Cheerios, anything else and the flavor is too compromised and odd.

When I saw the commercial for their newest flavor, Chocolate Cheerios, I was excited to give it a try. I wondered how the original flavoring of Cheerios would taste doused in cocoa. This past week I got to find out exactly how they were. I was not intentionally seeking them out, but there they were, right on the counter, and on sale for $3.88 a box.
They are pretty easy to find, instead of the giant orange/yellow colored box that Cheerios normally comes in, Chocolate Cheerios instead comes in a brown colored box, with a photo of what the cereal is supposed to look like inside of the box

How Were They?
After getting home, and yanking the box open I took in the fragrant cocoa scent that the bag of Chocolate Cheerios gave off. The chocolate scent however was bit strange, with a cardboard like after fragrance kick. It was odd, but I figured it would be. Cheerios alone have a distinct exclusive flavor that no other cereal can reproduce. Douse that exclusive flavor in chocolate and what you have is likely going to be an odd combination, and that is exactly what you get.
As I chewed on my first milk drenched bite of Chocolate Cheerios the flavor was a nice mild cocoa flavoring. However as I chewed more, the natural Cheerios flavor begins to make itself known, and combined with chocolate you have this really odd bitter flavoring that just does not work well. The final aftertaste I got was that of cardboard with a bit of chocolate sauce.
All in all, I didn't like them. They were not horrible as to where you would gag, but they are also not something you would want to eat on a regular.

It was fun trying out the newly added flavor, but frankly I won't be buying this one again.

Review of New Chocolate Chex Cereal

Cereal isles this past month have been piling up with a bunch of brand new favorites, from some of our old time classical favorites. With a new selection of birthday cake flavored cereals, and chocolate cereals. I'm excited what else they will have in store for us these upcoming months.

More recently I came across a box of New Chocolate Chex Cereal. The box the new flavor comes in is just as ordinary as any other box of Chex. The logo is there, and it is easy to find. The only difference is that the box is a dark brown in color, and it sticks out amongst the other Chex flavors.

Chex having the best crunch and bite a corn cereal can offer, I did not hesitate to pick a box up and bring it home with me.

Taste:

Once home, I poured myself a bow of the cereal. The Chex all look the way they should, the same weaved squared pattern as one would expect, only, like the box, the Chex cereal itself is brown. You can tell they were also doused in liquid sugar due to the shiny sheen that each of the Chex pieces have.

The scent is easily recognizable, and it smells no different than any other chocolate flavored cereal. More noted is Cocoa Pebbles.

I poured milk on top, and took my first bite. The flavor is delicious with a crunch cocoa flavoring that hits you first. As you chew the chocolaty flavoring subsides a bit, and you are left with a more corn Chex flavoring. The combined flavors coming in at different intervals though mesh really well together, unlike Chocolate Cheerios which I got the chance to try earlier in the week.

They have a very similar flavoring and crunch texture to Cocoa Pebbles, and the milk does turn into chocolate milk. I don't really like when milk turns too chocolaty though, and Chocolate Chex only slightly dashes the milk with chocolate flavoring, so it is not too sugary, or too intense.

Overall:

All in all new Chocolate Chex Cereal is a pretty good addition to the Chex family. It's got a perfect texture, with a perfect mixed in chocolate flavoring.

If you are a fan of Chex, than I would recommend these to you. If your a fan of chocolate cereals, this would be a good one to try as well. A good flavor, a good texture, and an overall nice addition to cereals.