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Do you like Honey Bunches of Oats and have you noticed that over a period of time, Post is gradually reducing it's volume of oat clusters down to a single digit fraction of what the box once contained.
Why and how could this be? Perhaps there should be a name change, like Post's Honey Bunches of Wheat and Cornflakes with Oat Clusters. A change of name such as this would at least be an honest representation of what the content actually is. Under law, the ingredients must be correctly listed in order of volume. According to the package Honey Bunches of Oats contain corn, whole grain wheat, sugar, whole grain rolled oats, brown sugar, partially hydrogenated sunflower oil, rice flower, wheat flower, malted barley flower, salt, rice, corn syrup.......misc buttortment of artificial color and natural and artificial flavors plus preservatives. There is more sugar (not including brown sugar and corn syrup) making up the volume of sweetness contained therein.
I liked this cereal before when you could almost get a cluster of oats in every bite. The oat cluster stays crunchier much longer than the wheat and corn flakes that get flacid in only a couple of minutes submerged in milk. Also the clusters are just a bit sweeter than the other cereal flakes imparting a very balanced adult level of sweetness. That doesn't happen anymore.
