Cereal: Be Natural’s Cashew, Almond, Hazelnut and Coconut ⁰

by QuestionFox • Food, Review • Tags: almond, be natural, breakfast, cashew, cereal, coconut, grains, hazelnut, nuts, sweet

After the pre­vi­ous post, you may be won­der­ing what I have for break­fast when I’m not in a hurry? I am fond of a cooked break­fast or a nice piece of Veg­emite toast, but there are times when cereal is the only thing that seems to hit the spot. And not just for break­fast! I’ll head for the cereal at any time of day that I feel like some­thing crunchy, nutty and sweet (and it’s much bet­ter than head­ing for a choco­late bar or other junk food).

I’ve tried prod­ucts in Be Nat­ural nut bars before and found them pretty sat­is­fy­ing, so on my last shop­ping trip I decided to grab a box from their cereal range.  The cereal I tried was the ‘Cashew, Almond, Hazel­nut and Coconut’, and over­all I was very impressed.  The com­bi­na­tion of flavours is very appeal­ing, and no indi­vid­ual flavour over­whelm the oth­ers.  The clus­ters of lin­seed, pepita and ama­ranth are almost as fre­quent as the flakes, and stayed very crunchy even though they were sit­ting in the milk for longer than they nor­mally would while I took the pho­tos.  I like my pho­tos to look good, but I don’t manip­u­late the prod­uct very much — so there was no pok­ing or prod­ding, there really were that many crunchy bits straight out of the packet.

Nutri­tion­ally it’s about aver­age for today’s cere­als (the health­ier ones at least) with 3.5g sat­u­rated fat and 13.5g of sugar — I’m sure there are plenty of cere­als out there that are lower in those sta­tis­tics, but I’m not sure they’d be as sat­is­fy­ing as this cereal.  With its sweet­ness and crunch, it feels far more deca­dent than you would think look­ing at the nutri­tional panel.   I also appre­ci­ated the nice pack­ag­ing design, so at least there is some­thing inter­est­ing to stare at if you get the ‘break­fast stares’ like many peo­ple I know.  The pack­ag­ing not only looks good, but it’s made from recy­cled mate­ri­als — and they’ve also part­nered with Land­care Aus­tralia to sup­port their projects in Australia.

I would def­i­nitely sug­gest giv­ing this a go — it’s com­pa­ra­ble to prod­ucts like Kellogg’s Crunchy Nut Clus­ters, but lower in sugar, sodium and higher in fibre (it is a lit­tle higher in sat­u­rated fats, but that’s prob­a­bly due to a higher nut and seed con­tent — the Kellogg’s prod­uct is 6% peanuts but the  con­tent of this cereal is 11% nuts and 4% seeds).