Honeycomb Cereal is a sweetened corn and oat cereal in a unique big honeycomb shape.
Founded in 1965, its honey-sweet taste has had kids of all ages loving this cereal for almost 50 years.
According to Post Consumer Brands, the company behind Honeycomb Cereal; “Honeycomb is a unique and playful cereal that lets you be YOU!” – source.
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Let’s find out if this honey sweet cereal is free of gluten . . .
Is Honeycomb Cereal Gluten Free?
The Answer is: NO
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Honeycomb Cereal contains whole-grain wheat and oat flour and is therefore NOT gluten free.
Wheat is a grain that is loaded with gluten. Therefore we can safely say that Honeycomb Cereal must be avoided if you are gluten intolerant or suffer from coeliac disease.
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Ingredients
Corn Flour, Sugar, Whole Grain Oat Flour, Marshmallow Bits (Sugar, Corn Syrup, Modified Cornstarch, Dextrose, Gelatin, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Red 40, Blue 1, Sodium Hexametaphosphate, Natural And Artificial Flavor), Whole Grain Corn Flour, Honey, Salt, Natural Flavor, Yellow 5. Bht Added To Packaging Material To Preserve Product Freshness.
Nutritional Information
Each 1 3/4 cup serving of Honeycomb Cereal contains 160 calories. This consists of 35g carbs, 2g protein, 1g fat, and 0.190g sodium – source
For more information on Honeycomb Cereal, head over to the Post Consumer Brands website here: https://www.postconsumerbrands.com/honeycomb/
Whole grain wheat is a whole cereal with all 3 components, wheat starch is just the non-gluten part of endosperm and an ingredient of distilled wheat in other words processed to remove gluten. Corn pops (old variety and not the jumbo snax pouch), toasted oats/tasteeos of any brand (few including thrive market brand includes freshly milled flour), and honey combs/buzzers includes just wheat starch. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to nima test anything with only wheat starch. I don’t understand why corn pops jumbo snax would include wheat flour when the old variety includes wheat starch. Wheat flour does count as an added gluten source if included which is an ingredient not processed to remove gluten and would without a doubt or surprise trigger gluten found message.