Best breakfast cereal
Twenty breakfast bowls, from classic cornflakes to sugary favourites and muesli. Which is the best start to the day?
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- Corn Flakes — Toasted flakes of corn created by the Kellogg brothers in the 1890s.
- Rice Krispies — Kellogg's toasted rice cereal that goes 'snap, crackle, pop' in milk.
- Frosties — Sugar-frosted cornflakes fronted by Tony the Tiger; Frosted Flakes in North America.
- Coco Pops — Kellogg's chocolate-flavoured puffed rice that turns the milk chocolatey.
- Cheerios — General Mills' ring-shaped oat cereal, launched in 1941 as CheeriOats.
- Honey Nut Cheerios — Sweetened honey-and-almond flavoured version of Cheerios.
- Weetabix — British whole-grain wheat biscuits, eaten with milk.
- Special K — Kellogg's crispy flakes of rice and wheat.
- Froot Loops — Brightly coloured fruit-flavoured rings with Toucan Sam as mascot.
- Lucky Charms — General Mills' oat cereal with coloured marshmallow shapes.
- Cap'n Crunch — Sweet corn-and-oat cereal from Quaker Oats, launched in 1963.
- Cinnamon Toast Crunch — Cinnamon-sugar coated wheat and rice squares from General Mills.
- Crunchy Nut — Kellogg's cornflakes coated in honey and nuts.
- Frosted Mini-Wheats — Bite-sized shredded wheat squares frosted on one side.
- Shreddies — Small woven squares of whole-grain wheat, popular in the UK and Canada.
- All-Bran — High-fibre wheat bran cereal from Kellogg's.
- Muesli — Raw oats, nuts, seeds and dried fruit, devised by Swiss doctor Maximilian Bircher-Benner.
- Granola — Oats, nuts and honey baked until crunchy.
- Porridge — Oats cooked in water or milk, a hot breakfast staple.
- Havrefras — Crispy oat cereal, a fixture in Swedish breakfast cupboards.