5 New Cereals We Can’t Wait to Try Right Now

Breakfast shouldn’t be boring. First of all, it’s the most important meal of the day and, secondly, have you peeked at your grocery store’s cereal aisle lately? There’s enough variety that you could probably try a different cereal every day for at least two months. But don’t worry—the product development elves at the breakfast cereal brands never rest, and that means even after you’ve tried everything, there will still be new cereals to try. Here are four new cereals heading to stores this spring that we can’t wait to try.

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Cinnamon Toast Crunch Root Beer Float

The only thing Americans love more than breakfast cereal? Soda. CTC, in its infinite wisdom, is bringing the two together with this root beer float flavored cereal. Now, I’m no cereal scholar, but this might be the first soda-flavored cereal (you can yell at me in the comments if I’m wrong). I’m sure this stuff will be good in a bowl with milk, but it’s gonna be tasty as heck sprinkled over a bowl of vanilla ice cream, too.

Tropical Trix

Moana and her cute little pig friend appear on this box of Tropical Trix, so prepare for your Moana-obsessed toddler to insist on bringing this home. What tropical flavors will you find in this new box of Trix? General Mills hasn’t been specific about that, but they’ve described the flavor as “fruit-forward,” which, yes, sure. If we had to guess, you can expect that lovely, unspecific blend of things like guava, mango, and pineapple.

Birthday Cake Cheerios

Whose birthday is it?? Oh, just AMERICA—NBD. Sure, America has a birthday every year (which also happens to be my birthday, DM and I’ll tell you where to send gifts), but this is the 250th and that calls for Cheerios that taste like cake. These are limited edition, so grabs ‘em if you sees them!

Protein Honey Nut Cheerios

When Protein Cheerios first launched, we tried all three flavors and were pleasantly surprised by how good they are compared to other protein cereals (mostly because most protein cereals are low sugar and Protein Cheerios are not). Now you can have THE BEST Cheerios flavor with added protein (and all the sugar that made it taste good in the first place).

Cotton Candy Lucky Charms

This one really tests the limits of what qualifies as breakfast, huh. Let’s not be party poopers, shall we? It’s cotton candy-flavored cereal with unicorn-shaped marshmallows—breakfast is served!

About the Author

Howdy! I’m Gwynedd, Sporked’s managing editor. I live in Los Angeles and have access to the best tacos the U.S. has to offer—but I’m a sucker for a crunchy Old El Paso taco night every now and then. I’ve been at Sporked since 2022 and I’m still searching frozen mozzarella sticks that can hold a candle to restaurant sticks. Why you should trust me: I’ve been a journalist for 20 years (yikes), a consumer of food for 40-plus years, and I’m truly hard pressed to think of foods I don’t like (or that I can’t tolerate at the very least). Oh and one time I cooked my way through Guy Fieri’s cookbook and wrote about the journey through Flavortown. What I buy every week: Trader Joe’s Original Savory Thins. Fat free plain yogurt (usually Fage or Nancy’s). Honeycrisp apples. Sweet cream coffee creamer for my at-home Americanos. A frozen cauliflower crust pizza and some jarred mushrooms to top it with. Old El Paso Stand ‘N Stuff taco shells and Gardein Ground Be’f, even though I think “be’f” is a nightmarish contraction. Favorite ranking: Stouffer’s frozen dinners. I don’t own a microwave (I get my cancers the old fashioned way!), so I love taste testing things that I don’t really buy to eat at home. Least favorite ranking: Soy sauce. Don’t get me wrong, I love soy sauce—but consuming that much sodium in one sitting is probably illegal in some countries. Our frozen enchilada taste test was a close second; the smell of microwaved corn tortillas still haunts me.