peace cereal Wild Berry Crisp Nice and crispy, but lose the wild berries. Rating: 2	kashi Heart To Heart Oat Flakes and Wild Blueberry Clusters Crunchy in milk, good berries. Rating: 3	peace cereal Raspberry Ginger Low Fat Crisp Like drinking tea with ginger. Yet kind of edible. Rating: 2	nature’s path Organic Smart Bran Tastes like goat food at a petting zoo. Rating: 1	nature’s path Organic Peanut Butter Granola Peanut butter and granola just don’t mix. Rating: 1
barbara’s Shredded Wheat Grandma’s shredded wheat: refreshingly plain. Rating: 3	kashi 7 Whole Grain Honey Puffs Like your basic Kashi puffs, only sweeter. Rating: 2	barbara’s Original Puffins Like neutered Cap’n Crunch. Rating: 2	bear naked Peak Protein Blueberry Walnut All Natural Granola Nice and complex. Rating: 4	health valley Organic Oat Bran Flakes With Raisins Fine, but don’t like the raisins-in-the-pouch gimmick. Rating: 2

annie’s Honey Bunnies Like Bunny Love but sweeter. Rating: 2	mothers Cocoa Bumpers My daughters would like this, but not me. Rating: 2	365 Organic Oat & Honey Granola Whole Foods has its honey flavor down. Rating: 3	peace cereal Maple Pecan Crisp Maple is the rich man’s vanilla. Rating: 1	food for life Ezekiel 4:9 Cinnamon Raisin More bad cinnamon. Rating: 1
barbara’s Shredded Oats Cinnamon Crunch Would be a 3, but for the cinnamon. Rating: 2	nature’s path Organic Heritage O’s The purist’s favorite. Rating: 4	bear naked Banana Nut All Natural Granola Very bananalike; surprisingly good. Rating: 3	weetabix Organic Crispy Flakes and Fiber Same as the other Weetabix. Rating: 1	365 Organic Honey and Nut Morning O’s Good natural honey taste. Rating: 3

dorset cereals Super Cranberry, Cherry, and Almond Startlingly bland, for all the ingredients. Rating: 1	barbara’s Shredded Oats Vanilla Almond The vanilla is the killer. Rating: 1	cascadian farm Honey Nut O’s A likable copycat of the Cheerios original. Rating: 3	peace cereal Organic Maple Raisin Low-Fat Crisp Not bad if you must eat maple. Rating: 3	kashi Good Friends Stupid name, but densely flavorful. Rating: 4
weetabix Organic Whole Grain Biscuit British mushiness may be comforting to some. Not me. Rating: 1	ambrosial granola Grecian Grove A potpourri of misguided oddments. Rating: 1	kashi Vive Toasted Graham & Vanilla Vanilla is the Antichrist. Rating: 1	kashi Heart to Heart Honey Toasted Oat A heartier Cheerio; maybe too hearty. Rating: 2	bear naked Fruit and Nut All Natural Granola If I ate granola, I’d eat this one. Rating: 4

peace cereal Vanilla Almond Crisp I’ve made my position clear on vanilla. Rating: 1	nature’s path Organic Optimum Zen Essence of garden mulch. Rating: 1	arrowhead mills Organic Maple Buckwheat Flakes Okay, but tastes nothing like maple or buckwheat. Rating: 2	grandyoats Classic Granola As advertised. Classic. Granola. Rating: 2	kashi Cinnamon Harvest A miracle! Cinnamon done properly Rating: 3
health valley Organic Fiber 7 Natural flavor, hearty. Rating: 3	barbara’s Peanut Butter Puffins A misconceived riot of sugar. Rating: 1	barbara’s Shredded Oats Barbara’s shredded wheat is better—more texture. Rating: 2	nature’s path Organic PomegranPlus Granola With Cherries Very fruity. Rating: 2	healthy valley Organic Amaranth Flakes A lesser example of the amaranth school. Rating: 2

arrowhead mills Organic Kamut Flakes Nice spotted look, but lacks crunch. Rating: 2	arrowhead mills Organic Oat Bran Flakes Turns milk brown, tastes heavy; like horse food. Rating: 2	365 Corn Flakes Stick to the top of the teeth in an unnerving way; not as good as the real thing. Rating: 2	365 Organic Golden Flax Flakes Nice crunchiness, if you like flax. Rating: 2	back to nature Flax & Fiber Crunch Almost too much roughage to bear. Rating: 2
nature’s path Organic Heritage Just flakes. Refreshingly pure. Rating: 3	nature’s path Organic Heritage Bites Just flakes. Refreshingly pure. Rating: 3	365 Frosted Flakes Another successful feel-good ripoff. Rating: 2	nature's path Organic Optimum Rebound: Banana-flax-almond Matcha Green Tea A train wreck. Rating: 1	feed granola co. Cranberry Coconut Crunch Yankee Candle meets the monkey house in the Bronx Zoo. Rating: 1

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