Review of 'Kashi' GoLEAN Crunch!

Kashi -- GoLEAN Crunch!
Overall Rating: 3.5/5
Summary: there's a crisp *and* crunch! The texture is fantastic, with big clusters of chewy crunchiness. It's medium-sweet and each spoonful is a hearty chew. There's a maply flavour...and a cinnamon flavour. I wouldn't recommend this cereal. The brand (owned by Kellogg) has been against the non-GMO project, so I am definitely not a fan. Also, this specific cereal is *not* non-GMO, so I definitely won't be buying this again.

Where to buy: Fortinos, Shopper's Drug Mart



Ingredients: seven whole grains and sesame blend (whole: hard red wheat, long grain brown rice, barley, triticale, oats, rye, buckwheat, sesame seeds), brown rice syrup, textured soy protein concentrate, evaporated cane juice crystals, chicory root (inulin), whole grain oats, expeller pressed canola oil, honey, salt, cinnamon, mixed tocopherols (for freshness).

Nutrition Facts
Serving size: 1 cup
Calories: 210
Fat: 3g
     Saturated fat: .4g
     Trans: 0g
Cholesterol: 0mg
Sodium: 110mg
Potassium: 300mg
Carbohydrates: 41g
     Fibers: 8g
     Sugars: 13g
Protein: 9g
Calcium: 6%
Iron: 15%

I recommend staying away from products that use genetically modified ingredients, like this cereal. Kashi is currently introducing non-GMO products into their line, so if you do like the brand (for whatever reason I can't gather), then you can try Cinnamon Harvest (reviewed here). It is very good!

Other 'GOLEAN® Cold Cereals':

• GOLEAN® Cereal Crisp! Toasted Berry Crumble (vegan)
• Cereal Crisp! Cinnamon Crumble (reviewed here)
• GOLEAN® Cereal, Crunch! Honey Almond Flax
• GOLEAN® Cereal Original

Brand:

• "Nine of our foods are now officially Non-GMO Project Verified including Autumn Wheat, Cinnamon Harvest, Island Vanilla, Strawberry Fields, 7 Whole Grain Flakes, 7 Whole Grain Puffs, 7 Whole Grain Pilaf, Simply Maize and Indigo Morning." (kashi.com)
• Phasing out GMOs: "That's why today Kashi announced a big initiative to increase the company's availability of organic and Non-GMO Project Verified foods. By the end of 2014, all existing Kashi® GOLEAN® cereals and Kashi® Chewy Granola Bars—representing Kashi's biggest offerings—will be Non-GMO Project Verified. Beginning in 2015, all new Kashi foods introduced into the market will contain at least 70 percent organic ingredients and will also be Non-GMO Project Verified" (read article here).
• "The soy in Kashi cereals comes from soybeans that have had a gene inserted to protect the soybeans from the herbicide Roundup, which kills, weeds," according to USA Today (read article here).
• Kellogg, which owns Kashi, contributed $600 000 against the non-GMO proposition 37 (read the Huffington Post article here)