Kellogg's Special K Chocolatey Delight - Good idea, terrible execution.
Written: Oct 06 '09
Product Rating:
Pros: Good amount of vitamins and minerals.
Cons: Poorly implemented product design results in something completely unintended.
The Bottom Line: Basically, you'll be eating standard Special K with a choclate wad afterwards. While there's nothing wrong with that, that's not what they show on the box.
Mr_D's Full Review: Kellogg's Special K, Chocolatey Delight, 13.4 Oz
First of all, I'd like to say what an awkward word "Chocolatey" is. I don't know if I've ever reviewed a food item before, but here goes:
Special K is a breakfast cereal, marketed as a healthy choice for breakfast. Though having more calories than standard cornflakes, the vitamins and minerals included trump that of their even more bland breakfast brethren. I find standard Special K to be a bit plain, but I am a big fan of the Special K with berries, which uses dehydrated fruit in the cereal as well to add a bit of flavor.
Dieters of course, battle with their food weaknesses all the time, and for many, that weakness is chocolate. Chocolatey Delight takes the healthy Special K forumla and replaces the fruit of the berry variations with small chocolate flakes. The result is slightly lower sodium, but slightly higher fat than the Berry cereal.
Basic Nutrutional Info: (per serving) 120 Calories, 2g of Fat, 180mg of Sodium, 9g of sugar. Nutritous highlights include 35% vitamin C and 45% iron, (daily suggested value) though several vitamins and minerals are represented.
While I laud the idea behind the cereal, as making chocolate healthier is a tried and true diet food gimmick, the execution here is so remarkably poor, it makes me wonder if this product went through one iota of testing.
The problem has nothing to do with taste, flavor, or nutrition, but a simple one of physics. The chocolate flakes are so small and thin, they do not stay on the flakes. When in a bowl, and when eating them, the vast majority of the flakes sink to the bottom of the bowl - So what you end up with is a bowl of standard special K with a wad of chocolatish goo at the bottom when you are done.
On a positive spin, some might say this makes the cereal work even better as a health food, if you can resist the urge to scoop up the chocolate when you are done. Regardless, it's poor product design, poor product testing, and poor implementation. If the flakes were larger, it would probably avoid this compltely (though I imagine larger choclate hunks would simply break and suffer the same fate), so I am not sure how to improve the product.
So, here's a product that barely is what it claims and appears to be. You're basically going to be eating special K and a choclate ball at the end. Hardly worth it's own box.
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