Gluten-free cold cereal options continue to expand rapidly, with mainstream cereal manufacturers joining specialty and health food companies in offering ever-wider selections of gluten-free cold cereals. It's now possible to find gluten-free cold cereals in almost every grocery store, as well as in natural foods stores.
If you enjoy a bowl of gluten-free cold cereal for breakfast or for a snack, you can choose from high-fiber cereals, cereals with added fruit, and cereals that would please someone with a sweet tooth. Enough varieties exist that you can easily keep a nice selection on hand of gluten-free cold cereals.
1. General Mills Chex Cereals
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Most Chex cereals now come gluten-free, making Chex one of the most popular gluten-free cold cereal options.
General Mills makes Chocolate, Cinnamon, Corn, Honey Nut and Rice Chex gluten-free, although reports from readers indicate that not all stores carry all flavors.
Make sure when you buy Chex that you're buying a box with the "Gluten-Free" label in the lower left, since a few stores may have older, non-gluten-free stock still on the shelves.
2. Nature's Path Cereals
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Specialty health food manufacturer Nature's Path makes a wide variety of gluten-free cold cereals, including fruit juice-sweetened and high-fiber varieties.
Gluten-free consumers can choose from Crunch Maple Sunrise, Crunchy Vanilla Sunrise, Whole O's Cereal, Crispy Rice Cereal, Fruit Juice-Sweetened Corn Flakes, Honey'd Corn Flakes and Mesa Sunrise Flakes.
Nature's Path also makes a line of organic gluten-free kids' cereals under the EnviroKidz name, including Gorilla Munch, Koala Crisp, Leapin' Lemurs, Amazon Frosted Flakes and Panda Puffs.
3. Post Foods Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles
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Post Foods earned kudos from those with celiac disease and gluten intolerance when it announced that it had made its popular Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles cereals gluten-free.
The company also said it was responding to health concerns by lowering the sugar content of its cereals to 9 grams per serving.
Although most people think of Pebbles cereals as a kids' product, I've known plenty of adults who like them. Gluten-free consumers can find Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles in most supermarkets.
4. Glutino Cereals
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Specialty gluten-free products manufacturer Glutino makes five gluten-free cold cereals.
Options from Glutino include Honey Nut cereal, Apple & Cinnamon cereal, Sensible Beginnings cereal, Berry Sensible Beginnings cereal and Frosted Sensible Beginnings cereal.
Glutino tests its products to contain less than 20 parts per million of gluten.
