{"id":15323,"date":"2013-09-09T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=15323"},"modified":"2023-02-26T19:23:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T05:23:18","slug":"review-general-mills-frute-brute-cereal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/09\/review-general-mills-frute-brute-cereal\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: General Mills Frute Brute Cereal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Frute<\/a><\/p>\n

As a serial cereal eater, it shames me to admit that prior to a few weeks ago I had never heard of Frute Brute<\/a>. Actually, if you asked me what Frute Brute was, I\u2019d probably have ventured a guess that it was some kind of Vegetarian Megazord from one of the many Power Rangers spinoffs. A whole “Eat Your Fruits and Vegetables or Else!” kind of thing.<\/p>\n

It turns out Frute Brute isn\u2019t quite so frightening. The seasonally themed and iconic Monster cereal is making its first appearance on grocery store shelves since the waning years of the Cold War. Available until roughly the end of October, it joins Count Chocula, Franken Berry, Boo Berry, and another cereal brought back from the dead, Yummy Mummy, in the Halloween food fest. It consists of whole-grain corn pieces with cherry coloring and flavoring, as well as two different colored marshmallows.<\/p>\n

Since I wasn\u2019t alive in 1982, I don\u2019t have any memories of the original Fruit Brute<\/a>. Thankfully, buying the box guarantees you a user-friendly crash course in Monster cereal history. The history cartoon on the back of the box may be hokey, but I admit I\u2019ve got a soft spot for having something to read while I indulge in a bowl of modified corn starch and red 40. <\/p>\n

Plus, that history will give me the knowledge to stump loved ones with breakfast trivia like the fact that Bela Lugosi once appeared on the front of a Count Chocula box (but wait, who is Bela Legosi<\/a>?). Of course, not included in these tidbits is that early 1970s factoid of Franken Berry turning kids\u2019 poop pink (a byproduct of the marshmallow food coloring<\/a>), but that\u2019s understandable. Pink poop is hardly appetizing.<\/p>\n

What is appetizing is this cereal. Cherry may seem like an odd choice for a cereal flavor, but if nothing else it\u2019s something completely different from the hodgepodge of fruit flavored cereals that vaguely taste like berry. <\/p>\n

In any case, you can put aside any fears of this stuff tasting like cough syrup. There\u2019s no bitter aftertaste, and the cherry flavor genuinely tastes like cherry candy. It\u2019s mild, to be sure, and it only covers roughly half the little ghoulish pieces*, but it\u2019s pleasant and not cloying. As for the plain pieces, they taste like your standard lightly sweetened Kix.<\/p>\n

\"Frute<\/a><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a great marshmallows-to-cereal ratio and those marshmallows have a fruity flavor and really nice snap to them. Because I don\u2019t dick around with this kind of stuff and only use whole milk for cereal eating, it\u2019s kind of hard not to like any<\/i> cereal in milk. But in this case I enjoyed the cereal more as a dry snack. Maybe it was because\u00a0the plain corn pieces get kinda soggy in milk or the cherry really doesn\u2019t go with milk, but I thought the end-milk was kind of dull and not as sweet as what I would have liked. <\/p>\n

\"Frute<\/a><\/p>\n

Fortunately, it\u2019s just sweet and crunchy enough as a snack, and the cherry flavor makes it an ideal cereal to mix with anything of the chocolate persuasion. (I highly suggest Double Chocolate Krave.)<\/p>\n

A lesser writer might use a trite pun about Frute Brute being either scary good or frightening bad, so I’m going to say it’s a nice change of pace from other marshmallow cereals, it makes a really good snack, and it’s definitely one of the better cereals to mix with chocolate flavored anything. It\u2019s worth buying once a year for posterity alone, but I’ll probably buy a few extra boxes to get me through the ten months it isn\u2019t on shelves.<\/p>\n

*who coincidently bare a strong resemblance to the bad guys from Pac-Man.<\/p>\n

(Nutrition Facts \u2013 1 cup \u2013 130 calories, 15 calories from fat, 1.5 grams of fat,0 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 0.5 grams of polyunsaturated fat, 0.5 gram of monounsaturated fat, 0 milligrams of cholesterol, 150 milligrams of sodium, 50 milligrams of potassium, 28 grams of carbohydrates, 1 grams of fiber, 9 grams of sugar, and 2 grams of protein.)<\/small><\/p>\n

Other Frute Brute reviews:<\/b>
\nDinosaur Dracula<\/a><\/p>\n

Item:<\/b> General Mills Frute Brute Cereal
\nPurchased Price:<\/b> $2.99
\nSize:<\/b> 9.6 oz box
\nPurchased at:<\/b> Target
\nRating:<\/b> 7 out of 10
\nPros:<\/b> Unique cherry flavor that tastes like cherry candy and mixes great with chocolate cereal. Lots of crunchy marshmallows. Not too sweet. Factoids on the box. An excuse to drink whole milk.
\nCons:<\/b> Pink werewolves have little, if anything, to actually do with Halloween. Corn pieces are kind of dull and worthless in milk. Really hoping my poop doesn\u2019t turn pink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a serial cereal eater, it shames me to admit that prior to a few weeks ago I had never heard of Frute Brute. Actually, if you asked me what Frute Brute was, I\u2019d probably have ventured a guess that it was some kind of Vegetarian Megazord from one of the many Power Rangers spinoffs. 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