I Tried Every CEREAL & Ranked Them from Healthy to TOXIC

Today I'm ranking 20 of the most popular cereal brands. Some of these are actually really good and good for you, but some of them are absolute trash and basically diabetes in a box. I'm using the S tier and I'm giving my scores based upon taste, quality of ingredients, and I'll give you the price, too. We begin with Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Look at that. You can see the sugar glistening off these little biscuits right here. Cheers. Whoa. It's very cinnamony. It's also very sweet cuz it's blasted with real cinnamon as opposed to what? Fake cinnamon. Here, we got to check the sugar here. Look at the ingredients. Sugar once. Fructose is sugar twice. Dextrose is sugar thrice. A serving has 12 g [laughter] of added sugar, my friends. I'll show you in a second how much that is. Whole grain wheat is nice, but canola and sunflower oil, caramel color. Oh, BHT, that's a preservative that's banned in other countries there. Oh, naughty, naughty. Cinnamon Toast Crunch. How much is 12 g of sugar? That is 3 teaspoon of cane sugar in your cereal bowl. And I paid $4.97 for this box. I wasted my money. It's getting a score of F. Next up is post grape nuts. I love these, you guys. I might be biased to this one cuz as a kid, I used to crush this. M. Can you hear it? It's crunchy, but as it sits in that milk, it gets softer and softer. And there's one ingredient that I'm really drawn to. I'm pretty sure it's the molted barley flour. Bobb's a barley boy. I like it a lot. And look, it's got 52 gram of whole grains. 7 gram of fiber, whole grain wheat, barley flour, salt, yeast. My only qualm, I like wheat to be organic or glyphosate free, but there's nothing else added to this. And it's incredibly nutrientdense. My gosh, this was $4.97. The same as Cinnamon Toast Crunch. I'll take this all day. I'm actually going to give it a score of a solid B. Next up, Kashi Go Honey Almond Flax. Looks hardy. I like the slivers of almonds in there. Cheers. Sweeter than I thought. It is tasty, y'all. I think people are drawn in by 10 gig of protein. Tang of f. That's a lot of fiber, actually. Wow. But oh, the protein is coming from soy flakes. Oh, that is lame. Soy is the worst quality source of protein. At least it's non GMO. But why is it so sweet? There's brown rice syrup and cane sugar to the tune of 10 gram of total sugar. They should add that 10 g of sugar, 10 g of protein, 10 g of fiber, canola oil in there. Also, this is one of those healthy cereals that are marketed that way that are not super healthy. At least they're using vitamin E as the preservative, whereas earlier we saw that BHT, that's the band preservative. I don't know, guys. I paid $5.4 47 for this. I'd rather have my grape nuts. I'm going to give this a rating of a D. If you thought this healthy cereal was surprising, wait till I show you one later on. Up next is Sprouted Brown Rice Crisps. These look pretty iconic because it's a healthy dupe for Rice Krispies. Does it have the crunch? M. It does, but I can taste the brown rice, which is a bit hardier. This brand is cool cuz check it out. It's sprouted, glyphosatefree, organic. So, they go above and beyond when you sprout grains like rice. And it lacks more nutrition. And all it is is sprouted brown rice. A touch of coconut sugar and salt. There's only one gram of coconut sugar here. The perfect swap for Rice Krispie treats. Oh man, imagine making homemade Rice Krispie marshmallow squares with these. I paid $5.89. 89 at Whole Foods for this. I think you can get it at Sprouts, Target, and Walmart. My friends, we have our first S tier of the day. Up next, we have Cheerios. It looks like I bought a limited edition box because some of the O's are actually heart because they're heart healthy. It's nostalgic. It's actually really good. And the ingredients aren't that bad. So, I have the heart on there because it's whole grain oats. Yeah, there's sugar there, which I don't want to see, but it's 2 g. No, in Spanish, it's one gram of added sugar there and that's it here. So, it's actually not a solid choice. Would I wish the oats would be organic? Yes. And what am I in general looking for when I'm rating these cereals? I'm looking for lots of whole grains, minimal to no sugar. if it's going to have some sugar, maybe some uh unrefined sugar. No seed oils, no banan preservatives. Here, I got this box, my limited edition box for$450 at Walmart. Guys, this is a solid B. Next up is Quaker oatmeal squares. I like the shape of these. It kind of reminds you of that traditional biscuit. Here it is a brown sugar one. I like the texture. It has a really hearty texture. It is a bit sweet. Interesting. Here, look at this, guys. There's eight grams of added sugar here. Once [snorts] again, let's put that in context. 8 g of sugar. This is what it looks like. It's two teaspoons of added sugar. Now, let me ask you a serious question. How can you put the heartalthy stamp on something when you have two grams of uh two teaspoons of added sugar per serving? To me, that is not heart-healthy. It does have a lot of whole grains in here. Natural flavorings. One of the biggest lies in the grocery store. I'm sorry. This is another healthy fake pretender. I would not eat this. It is not hard-he healthy. I'm giving it an E. Oh, I also paid $4.97 for it. I want my money back. We now have Cascadian Farms Purely O. It certainly looks like a Cheerio to me. Does it taste like a Cheerio? Yeah, it's very similar here. It's basically a more Bobby approved, healthier version of a Cheerio. Why? Well, the oats in here are organic. The whole thing's organic here. And there's no added anything. No added sugar, no preservatives. It's got four grams of fiber, 31 whole grains here. It's just not like the most tasty, per se. I think Cheerios have that more nostalgic flavor, per se. I paid $530 for this at the store. It's solid, right? I'll give it an A rating. I would give it an S, but it's not tasty enough, and taste is one of the criteria, but an A is very solid. Next up is Magic Spoon Fruity Cereal. Very colorful. At least they do it without artificial colors. And this is a cereal that a lot of people ask me always, is it Bobby approved? Well, let's see how it tastes. Not good. Kind of like a fake fruity flavor. Bobby doesn't like that one here. So, why is this not Bobby approved? Cuz people are seduced by the zero sugar, four net carbs. And I was seduced by the price. It actually seduced me the wrong way. It's very expensive. So, milk protein blend. It's GMO. Fine. Oils. Hy oleic sunflower oil. Seed oil. Not good. And there's natural flavoring. So, nowhere close to Bobby approved. I'm actually very disappointed by the flavor. I'm probably most disappointed by the price. At Walmart of all places, I paid $850 for this. 7 oz. My friends, do the math. That's almost $20 a pound for cereal when I can at Walmart get good quality Bobby approved beef for like $6 a pound. I'm offended by that. I'm a little offended by the flavors. I'm giving this a score of a D. The next cereal is the breakfast of champions. It's Waties with that classic huge flake there. Let's give it a try. This is good. It's very hearty. And I'm lucky, guys. I got the collector's edition. I was expecting to buy one with an athlete on there and I got the collector's edition. It's really just a couple ingredients. Whole grain wheat, little sugar, little honey. That's it. It does have 32 gram of whole grains here. The sugar is a touch high. It's 5 g of added sugar per, but it's a combination of cane sugar and honey. [snorts] Ideally, it'd be a little bit lower, but it's actually a very solid choice. The flavor, the texture is nice, too. I paid $4.97 at Walmart for my collector's edition. I'm going to slide this into the B ranking. 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These are pillows of something with chocolate filling inside. What marketing genius thought this was okay to give to our kids? I'm actually scared for a bite here. Oh my god. I won't even swallow. That's crazy. This should not be a cereal, my friends. Holy crap. Crispy shell smooth chocolate inside. The first ingredient is the chocolate filling. There's more chocolate filling than actual wheat in here. The chocolate is sugar, soybean oil, palm oil. The second ingredient in the cereal in general is sugar. Then wheat flour, oats, more sugar. GOLLY, THAT IS OH, WE GOT A RECORD. 14 gram of added sugar here that's stuck in the cavities of my tooth. I'm developing a cavity as we speak. That is over 3 teaspoon of added sugar here. This is so wrong in so many ways. I paid just under $5 for this at Walmart. I want my money back. This is an FT. Next up is Seven Sundigs. Super fruity oat cereal. Has a nice color to it. It's kind of like a healthy dupe to maybe Froot Loops. M. That's good. Fruit. Yes. Sweetness. Very light. And these ingredients are really, really nice. Full disclosure, I'm a small investor in Seven Sundays. It is not swaying my opinion here. It's just everything they make is super clean and Bobby approved. So they're using upcycled oat protein, which is glyphosate free, non- GMO corn, so it's kind of crunchy like a traditional cereal, maple syrup, coconut oil, real fruit powder like cherry and strawberry, orange and lemon extract. And to reinforce the color, beet powder, 5 g of total sugar coming from the fruit and the maple, 3 g of fiber, 5 g of protein. Super duper yummy. I picked this one up at Target for $7.99. It is epic. Now, stick around cuz I have another nostalgic swap that's Bobby approved coming up very soon. I'm going to give this an S tier rating. Catalina Crunch Honey Graham is next. It has a nice wafer like texture. It has a really strong smell like almost like an artificial graham cracker or something. Let's try it out. Oh, it tastes very stale. Wow. This is made of Catalina flour. Excuse mo. A combination of pea, potato, corn fiber, chory root. It's very sweet, but the only sweetener in here, they went heavy on the monk fruit. It's very heavy, which is like 300 times sweeter than sugar here. Has natural flavors and the sunflower oil. I think people are drawn in once again by the zero grams of added sugar, the low net carbs, 11 g of protein. That tastes like very sweet, [snorts] stale, overpriced cereal. I spent what was it? $7 for this at Walmart of all places. That is not enjoyable at all. I'm going to give that a ranking of D. And my friends, when you're in the grocery store deciding between cereals or something, I had this app I came out with years ago called Bobby Approved, you can scan anything at the grocery store and it tells you if it's Bobby approved or not. If it's not approved, it highlights the bad ingredients. It tells you why they're bad. If it is approved, it gives you a thumbs up. It also gives you better alternatives. It takes the guesswork out of shopping. It's like having me go shopping with you. It's free, by the way. Apple App Store, Google Play Store. I'll leave links down below. Let's move on to the next series. Next up is rice checks with that classic puffy checkered pattern here. Let's give it a try. M. That's nostalgic. And it has a great texture to it. And I get a recipe for Muddy Buddies. Also, I [snorts] actually kind of like the ingredient list here. It's very small. It's whole grain rice with a little bit of sugar, salt, and molasses. We have three grams of added sugar here and a total of two grams of fiber. The price is right. This is one of the cheapest ones I bought. $3.97 for this box at Walmart, which is very nice. The thing is, unlike Cheerios, which is made of whole grain oats, this is made of rice, which is not quite as nutrientdense as oats or whole grain wheat. That being said, it's still very solid. I'm gonna slide it in at the C rating, though, which is very, very respectable. Next is Ezekiel Cinnamon Raisin Cereal. This is a weird texture. I was expecting flakes, but we're actually getting like a grape nutty texture here. Smells very healthy, if you know what I mean. Tastes very healthy, too, if you know what I mean. Whoa. It's the only cereal I know that quotes the Bible on the front. So maybe that's a the giveaway that it's not going to be the most flavorful one here. The ingredients are literally amazing. [snorts] Wow. It took me a while to [laughter] get through this. [snorts] Organic sprouted wheat, sprouted millet, sprouted lentil, sprouted soybeans, organic raisins, cinnamon. 6 g of fiber, 7 g of protein. Perfect ingredients. Expensive though. I got it at Walmart for $7.99. It is very nutrient-dense though. Listen, this is a tough one cuz technically it should be in the A tier, but I can't get behind the flavor. Like I don't know any kid, let alone most adults, who can get behind this. So I'm going to give this a B because of the flavor. If we're going based upon ingredients, it's definitely an A. Sishish. Up next is Puffins Peanut Butter Cereal. Look at that. These [clears throat] are real big puffs, so it lives up to the name. And I'm getting a nice odor of peanut butter. And it's made with real peanut butter. >> [snorts] >> Yum. Wow. This actually tastes nice. It's not too sweet. I have a good peanut butter flavor. What's the sugar? Sugar is a little high. So, one cup of this has 9 g of added sugar. [snorts] I will give them credit though. It's made with non-GMO corn. It's got real peanuts and salt, whole grain oat flour. [snorts] It's not that bad. Like this would be what's a peanut butter like bad cereal like peanut butter crunch or something like that. I think I bought this at Whole Foods for about Oh yeah, Reese's Puffs coming up. That'd be a good comp to this one. Yeah, I got this at Whole Foods for about $6. My only qual is the sugar is a touch high. I'm going to slide this into a C category here, but it's respectable for what it is. Next up is purely Elizabeth honey peanut butter cereal. Loving the look of the flake here. It's got a lot of texture in here. Let's hope it's good. Very good. Not great. It's got a little bit of a a density to it, but the ingredients are nice. It's all gluten-free whole grains. So, sorghum, oats, amaranth. It is sweet, but it says honey peanut butter, right? It's honey and coconut sugar. There's coconut oil here, chia seeds, five grams of fiber per serving, 5 g of protein. I picked up this box at Tar for 750. Ingredients are epic. S tier worthy. Flavor not as good as I thought. I will give it an A tier rating. There is another cereal that's not Bobby approved. It's like the vanilla blueberry. that has sunflower oil and sugar. Avoid that one. But this is very respectable at an A rating. Hey, if you're still watching at this point of the video, subscribe, my friends. I'm always amazed by this stat where over 75% of the people watching aren't subscribed. Join the community of 10 million plus. It's the easiest and the free way to support the channel. And that way, when you subscribe and click the bell icon, you never ever miss a video. Let's keep going. Next up is Alpen Muesli cereal. I'm a little concerned about the looks. There's literal raw oats floating in here with some toasted looking oats. If you're wondering what kind of milk I've been using for this, it's just some almond milk I picked up at the store. I'm probably going to poop my pants at any moment, but we power on. Let's try this. Oh man, this is horse food. What am I? Rescue the horse. I'm literally chewing on raw oats right now. Why would anyone buy this? Jeez Louise. I mean, the ingredients are actually very solid. They're whole grain oats, as I can see with my eyes. Whole grain wheat, raisins, wheat flour. It's got a ton of grains in here. Seven grams of fiber, seven grams of protein. I do wish the oats and wheat would be organic, but listen, I ingredientwise, it's very, very solid. I did pay a lot for my horse food, though. This was like $7.99 at the grocery store, which is the most expensive horse food for Rusty he's ever bought here. Flavor-wise, though, this is not good. Golly, I'm going to have to slide this into the C ranking because I just don't want to eat it. Up next is Reese's Puffs. They look delicious in the bowl. Full disclosure, when I was in college, this used to be my dessert. I love this. Let's see what the flavor is like these days. M I'm happy to report the flavor has not changed since I graduated in 2000. Shocking. Holy cow. That is super super sweet, guys. Let's take a look here. All right. It's got 12 grams of added sugar here. Oh, this is the first one. This is the first cereal we've reviewed that has artificial flavors in it. It has an amazing flavor. [laughter] I should call it artificial/ amazing cuz the peanut butter chocolate as shown on the front here where puffs are literally living in a cup. It's a perfect balance. I'll give them credit there. But just the sweetness is out of control. There's sunflower oil, caramel coloring, natural flavor, artificial flavors, three teaspoons of added sugar. This is another one that never should have been made into a cereal. Now I can get away with it. Back in college, I would work out twice a day. Actually, back in college in my apartment, I was famous for my one pan huge pancake. I make a massive pancake and have that sometimes for a meal or for dessert. It was probably like a pound of flour, but it was delicious. This is not so delicious with that much sugar. I did pay $5 for it at Walmart. Unfortunately, my college dessert is getting the bottom of the barrel after. The next cereal is Loveird Cocoa O's. It literally looked like a dupe for like cocoa Cheerios. It looks like a Cheerios. Although my Cheerios earlier did have the heart shapes there. So, it's crunchy. The chocolate is a bit muted, but also has like a coffee flavor. That's interesting. So, this is grain-free, gluten-free Cheerios here. Seven real organic ingredients. Buckwheat flour, cassava, coconut sugar, sweetened, the cocoa powder, the coconut oil. Great ingredients are as best as you can get. It has 6 g of total sugar, 2 g of added fiber. Expensive, though. I bought this one at Whole Foods for $8.99. The flavor is good, but not great. The ingredients are great. So, this one's going to fall into the A tier. We have one more to go, but you don't want to miss it because it's a doozy. Last up is Oreo Puffs cereal. This is wrong, my friends. And it smells like a real Oreo here. [snorts] Jeez. I have to get a bite that has the cookie and the cream in it. Oh my god. It tastes like an Oreo. Oh my god. I have to Holy cow. That is crazy. That has the most sugar of the day. We saved the best for last. 16 gram of sugar are coating my teeth right now. So cloingly sweet. And look, it's not just sugar. It's corn syrup and sugar. The worst, most addictive form of sugar. Is it supposed to make me feel better that this is made with real Oreo cookie wafers? [laughter] What kind of endorsement is that? I don't care, my friends. It also has artificial flavoring, which I can definitely taste. Lots of corn syrup, seed oils, preservatives, something called sodium hexame phosphate. Holy cow, I paid just over $4 for this at Walmart. This is most certainly going in the F tier. That is it for my complete ranking of cereals best to worst. If you agree with me, leave a comment down below. If you disagree, leave a comment, too. If you want to see something else ranked, you let me know. But I'm going to the bathroom. My ceiling.

Get 27% off your organic mattress plus free pillows: https://birchliving.com/Bobby I ranked 20 of the most popular cereal brands from healthiest to toxic...and some of the results might surprise you. In this video, I break down ingredient quality, sugar content, processing, and price so you can finally stop guessing in the cereal aisle. Some of these cereals are actually solid. Some are heavily marketed sugar bombs. Let’s see where they land. Here are the cereals we reviewed: Cinnamon Toast Crunch Grape Nuts Kashi Go Honey Almond Flax Crunch Farmers We Know Brown Rice Crisps Cheerios Quaker Oatmeal Squares Brown Sugar Cascadian Farm Purely O’s Magic Spoon Fruity Wheaties Krave Chocolate Seven Sundays Catalina Crunch Cinnamon Toast Rice Chex Ezekiel Cereal Puffins Peanut Butter Purely Elizabeth Alpen Cereal Reese’s Puffs Lovebird Oreo Puffs Throughout the video, I show sugar comparisons, ingredient breakdowns, and why “low sugar” doesn’t automatically mean healthy. If you’ve ever stood in the cereal aisle confused, this breakdown will help. If you’re ever unsure while shopping, scan it with the Bobby Approved app. Download the Bobby Approved App iTunes app store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bobby-approved/id1571725006 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bobbyapproved&hl=en_US&gl=US Subscribe for more grocery rankings and 2026 store guides: https://www.youtube.com/@BobbyParrish