CoCo Wheats is a brand of instant, chocolate flavored breakfast cereal introduced in 1930 and currently owned by Post Holdings . The brand was originally owned by Little Crow Foods , and bought by MOM Brands in 2012. Three years later, MOM Brands was bought by Post Holdings in 2015.
5-517: CoCo Wheats is a wheat/ farina cereal, flavored with cocoa and contains no sugar. It competes with Chocolate Flavored Malt-O-Meal and Chocolate Flavored Farina. Cereal mascots Pepper and Perry first surfaced in 1959, appearing in an animated commercial titled "Cuckoo Land." The ad features Mel Blanc voicing Pepper the parrot and a cuckoo bird. Many years later in 1993, the commercial was redone and edited in color with Blanc's original voice-overs intact. In 2005, an Indianapolis Monthly writer spent
10-584: A week eating food produced in Indiana, including CoCo Wheats. He wrote: "I sit down to breakfast humming the jingle for CoCo Wheats, made by Little Crow in Warsaw: CoCo Wheats, Coco Wheats can't be beat, the creamy hot cereal with the cocoa treat. Well, guess what: CoCo Wheats can be beat. They're pasty, only vaguely chocolatey; I don't like them any more than I did when I was eight years old." This brand-name food or drink product–related article
15-613: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Farina (food) Farina is a form of milled wheat popular in the United States. It is often cooked as a hot breakfast cereal , or porridge . The word farina comes from the Latin word for 'meal' or 'flour'. Farina is milled from hard red spring or hard red winter wheat . Farina may also be cooked like polenta and farofa , which are made with ground corn and ground cassava , respectively. Farina with milk and sugar
20-493: Is sometimes used for making creams for layered cakes. Farina can be used as a substitute for bread crumbs in sweet and meat pies (to absorb excess water). It can also be used to prevent dough from sticking to baking surfaces via the baking process, leaving residual farina on the bottom of the final product. Farina is a carbohydrate -rich food. When enriched with iron, it can be a significant source of dietary iron , especially for vegetarian diets. Popular brands offer up to 50% of
25-492: The recommended daily value of iron in a single 500-kilojoule (120-kilocalorie) serving. In commercially available farina, the bran and most of the germ are removed. Cream of Wheat , Malt-O-Meal , and Farina Mills are popular brand names of breakfast cereal. To augment its mild taste, popular add-ins to cooked farina include brown or granular sugar, maple syrup, honey, molasses, fruit, nuts, cinnamon, butter, grated chocolate, jams, milk, and salt. This food -related article
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