Mallow Oats

MALLOW

Cereal Name: Mallow Oats

Type of Cereal: Dessert Cereal

Primary Grain: Oats

Nutrition Information (based on  1-cup serving):
            Calories: 120
            Total Fat: 1g
            Sugar: 13g
            Fiber: 1g
            Protein: 2g

Top Five Ingredients: Whole Grain Oat Flour (includes oat bran), Marshmallows (evaporated milled sugar, modified corn starch, corn syrup, dextrose, gelatin, blueberry, pumpkin and carrot concentrates for color, natural flavor), Evaporated Milled Sugar, Corn syrup, Wheat starch

Even served in a "green" bowl

Review: This cereal is marketed as "All natural sweetened whole grain oat cereal with natural marshmallow pieces" and I think that, using the more "natural" word MALLOW in the product name is supposed to invoke feelings of "I have done something good for the environment" and "I am a "green" person making wise diet choices that promote sustainability and fuel my body with natural, organic, locally sourced, natural whole food ingredients." In fact, while the "mallow" is a plant, the mallow plant has nothing to do with the natural "mallows" in "Mallow Oats." Three of the top five ingredients in mallow oats are sugar related (marshmallows, evaporated milled sugar, and corn syrup). BUT the marshmallows do have the words blueberry, pumpkin and carrot in their names which makes them healthy and natural and worthy of the title "mallows."

This is not to say that I don't like Mallow Oats, because I do. I like them very much. I find the Oat pieces to be less sugary than traditional Lucky Charms or Marshmallow Mateys and I do recognize that the sugars used in this cereal are more natural than the sugars used in its MARSHmallow infested competitors. And having all of the marshmallows the same shape makes me less stressed out about eating them in a certain order. So that's nice. I just find it kind of funny that this cereal is trying so hard to be natural. When it has MARSHMALLOWS IN IT.

In summary, this is my favorite cereal that contains marshmallows.