Sometimes the best part of traveling is trying all the different food other cultures have.
Although, it can be little things like a certain type of juice or cereal that you tried in
Europe you will never find in North America that really sets you back.
So let’s pour a bowl of the top 10 breakfast cereals Americans wish they had.
Lion Cereal From Europe and The Middle East
Lion Cereal is a crunchy, caramel, flaked Nestle product that is based on the bar version,
Lion Bars, that features, you guessed it, a lion mascot.
It is actually one of the many Nestle cereal products that feature a wild animal as a mascot
but is one of the few that didn’t start out as a powder mix for drinks.
The cereal has a crisp, caramel, chocolate flavor that is filled with sugar and carbs,
perfect as your first meal of the day!
The cereal was first introduced in the early 2000s but was unfortunately discontinued for
unknown reasons in 2003.
It wasn’t until 2011 that the cereal came back to shelves in a new and slightly improved
way.
It’s only available across the European and Middle Eastern countries but it is imported
into North America by third parties, so you could always hunt it down online.
The cereal is relatively healthy to a point, it’s mainly a whole-grain flake shape that
is both chocolate and caramel flavored and boasts a high content of B vitamins.
Milo Breakfast Cereal From Australia
Milo is an Australian “sport” cereal that boasts about giving your child tons of energy
to kickstart their day, but in reality it’s basically just Nesquik and the energy comes
from the insane amount of sugar in it, about 78 grams.
As another Nestle product, it is incredibly delicious and will give you an early morning
sugar rush.
It, like Nesquik, was inspired by its powder version that went into water (yes, water)
or milk and turned it into a chocolate drink.
The cereal isn’t all bad though as it does provide a sufficient amount of vitamins and
nutrients like iron, B2, and B3.
But let’s face it: the main thing here is that this cereal is delicious and sadly in
the clutches of a 22hr flight to Australia.
Kosmostars Cereal From Russia
Kosmostars are a delicious bowl of cosmic sugary goodness that are dedicated to teaching
you about space and are a little bit like Honey Nut Cheerios, except the shape is different.
Instead of little donut shapes, Kosmostars appropriately sport rocket and star shapes.
Its mascot is an intergalactic bear named Captain Star, truly the original Star Lord,
and the cereal itself is little whole grain pieces covered in honey.
The cereal is regrettably exclusive to Russia, but it can be exported to Spain or Portugal,
so rude of them not to share.
Apparently the back of the box features an educational illustration of all the planets
and their names.
This cereal is perfect for any underage, or of-age, astronaut living in your space station.
In fact, the cereal is actually meant to inspire its fans to become more educated about space,
and its mission statement claims that the entire brand is dedicated to nurturing children’s
curiosity of the stars and planets around them.
Perhaps the Russians bring a box to the ISS sometimes.
Miel Pops From France
Miel Pops is a French cereal that is basically what would happen if you smashed Honey Nut
Cheerios and Corn Pops together.
The cereal is made by Kellogg’s and even has a honey bee mascot named Pops, who replaced
a different honey bee named Loopy.
Apparently it’s a very competitive business for bees, just shows you how lucky the Honey
Nut bee really is.
Honey Nut Cheerios has a high content of sugar and other sweeteners, while Miel Pops has
a much higher honey content, which makes it naturally sweeter.
This could be caused by European Union regulations on artificial sweeteners which causes food
companies like Cadbury, Kelloggs, and others to change the recipe for different regions.
It's probably because of the more natural sweet flavor by the honey that make it the
French bee Queen of the Honey Cereals.
Like many others it can be exported but you will probably have a hard time tracking it
down in North America.
Chocapic Cereal From Europe and Latin America
Another chocolate breakfast treat from Nestle, Chocapic is what happens when you make Frosted
Flakes completely out of whole grain and chocolate and it sort of looks like Milo cereal, also
owned by Nestle.
The cereal was first introduced in 1984 and is fronted by a chocolate-loving dog for a
mascot, which is kind of ironic and probably dangerous for actual dogs since chocolate
is lethal to them so please don't give them any of this cereal.
Even though it is insanely sugary it is sort of healthy, it does boast calcium and Vitamin
D as well as Iron and Fibre, but it probably isn't the best source for these things.
The cereal itself is supposed to be in the shape of flower petals.
The cereal is famous for being very genuine in its chocolate taste and the real kicker
is that pretty much everyone outside of North America is able to enjoy it, so that kind
of sucks for us.
Strawberry Pops Cereal From South Africa
Strawberry Pops are a Kelloggs cereal that are only available in South Africa, which
is really unfortunate because these little strawberry suckers are absolutely delicious
and a nice alternative to the mainstream chocolate cereals.
They are essentially a strawberry flavored version of the American Rice Krispy cereal,
and instead of three little bakers, there is a cool seal as the mascot.
The cereal is about as healthy as chocolate Rice Krispies and are just as delicious as
it's American counterpart, if not more depending on your preference.
If you were a kid in South Africa, you would most likely be going grocery shopping with
your mom every single time and begging them endlessly to let you have this every day.
It’s one of those cereals that taste so good and makes you so hyper, you are actually
excited to get out of bed on a Monday morning just to go eat a bowl, unless your older sibling
already ate the entire box by hand.
Nescau Breakfast Cereal From Brazil
Nescau is a crunchy, sugary, chocolatey Nestle cereal that is only available in Brazil.
Unsurprisingly the cereal was inspired by a powder version of the same name - it turns
out most of Nestle products are delicious chocolate powders turned cereals.
The product launched in 1932 with the name being a cross between the Portuguese word
for cocoa, cacau, and the company name Nestle.
Pretty smart way to sell a product and it obviously worked as it is one of the most
popular chocolate powders in the country, it was even one of the primary sponsor’s
of the Brazilian national soccer team for the World Cup.
The product looks like Nesquik but it tastes way more like genuine chocolate, which is
probably thanks to the fact that cocoa grows naturally in Brazil, and doesn’t need to
be shipped halfway across the world, which reduces the need for certain preservation
methods.
Cocoa trees grow naturally in climates like that of Brazil, and account for a large part
of their agriculture.
This product could be considered a sort of national pride in terms of breakfast cereals.
Vitalis Cereal From Germany
Vitalis is an oat-like German cereal by Dr. Oetker that is truly delicious and one of
the few on this list that is relatively healthy.
The cereal is kind of like Oatmeal Crisp but better, think of it as the cereal your parents
would give to you to trick you into eating healthy in the mornings or the one they told
you was really gross so they could keep it all to themselves.
It consists of almonds, oat flakes, and whole milk chocolate pieces that could honestly
come straight from the Hershey factory.
The 14 grams of sugar it contains comes mostly from the almonds and chocolate and is balanced
out by the 11 grams of protein, and 13 grams of fibre, which is a good change of pace considering
many chocolate cereals get their sugar content from just adding sugar and sweeteners.
Vitalis is one of those cereals that should have a commercial where nobody shares it because
it’s that good, you feel like you are eating a bowl of chocolate bars with some crunch,
but you’re also being really healthy about it, so no guilt.
Sadly the only place to get it outside of Germany is Austria so if you ever go there,
maybe bring back a few boxes.
Kariot Cereal From Israel
Now Kariot is truly an iconic breakfast cereal, it is the type of cereal you would be begging
your mom to buy at the grocery store, it's also a unique product as it was the first
to have chocolate in the middle.
It is an incredibly delicious and unhealthy nougat creme filled cereal that is loaded
with sugar and chocolate.
You might notice that they look exactly like Krave cereal pieces but that is because the
minds behind Krave were actually inspired by this cereal.
Kariot was launched by a company called Telma in 1994 in Israel and became the very first
chocolate filled cereal in history, truly groundbreaking.
The name is even Hebrew for pillows, which are the shape the cereal pieces resemble.
The center is filled with a delicious hazelnut chocolate that would give you a sugar rush
to last you until dinner time.
The product is exclusive to Israel and the only way you can get it on the outside is
if you order it online from a place like Amazon.
There are no artificial preservatives or anything like that in the cereal though, so it might
taste a little stale by the time it arrives, better to just take a trip to Israel and enjoy
it, or they could just share it.
Golden Nuggets Breakfast Cereal From The United Kingdom
Golden Nuggets is kind of like Corn Pops and Cap’n Crunch mixed into one with its whole
aesthetic being based off of American gold diggers, the polar opposite of Britain, who
at that time typically mined coal.
It is made from cereal grain, sugar and honey which gives it a very sweet honey flavor.
Because it is exclusive to the United Kingdom it goes by European Union artificial flavor
standards.
This basically means that the cereal has a more genuine flavor of honey than it would
if it was an American cereal because it uses real honey for the sweet taste instead of
artificial sweeteners which are banned from some European foods.
The cereal was originally introduced in the late 1970s and was sold all over the UK and
even the United States to start, however the product was later pulled completely much to
the displeasure of it fans.
It wasn’t until 1999 when the little golden sugar balls were brought back to the grocery
shelves of the United Kingdom.
The cereal’s mascot is an American gold digger and his mule named Klondike Pete and
Pardner respectively, the slogan even features the American “yee-haw” slang and the character
sports an American southern accent, but the actual cereal never returned to American breakfast
bowls and isn't sold anywhere on the North American continent.
Kind of seems a little unfair.
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