![]() ![]() What do your Rice Krispies say to you? The noises the Krispies make are described differently in other languages. The noise continues until all the air has escaped from inside the Krispies. The increased pressure on the walls causes them to shatter with snaps, crackles and pops! You can see the air escaping as bubbles rising to the surface of the milk. The milk pushes the air out of the way, forcing it against the Krispie walls. The air-filled caves inside the Krispies are flooded with liquid. When you add milk to the Rice Krispies they begin to soak it up. If these crystals are put under pressure they will shatter like glass. The walls of the caves are very fragile as the heat has caused the sugar in the Krispies to become a delicate crystal structure. These air pockets are linked up like a system of caves. When they are heated, each grain starts to expand as lots of little pockets of air form inside. To be transformed into Rice Krispies the grains of rice must be cooked at a very high temperature. Rice Krispies are made from rice, a food rich in starch but they also contain sugar. Kellogg's SA said wheat was “clearly and adequately” reflected in the ingredients list on the pack, as well as in the allergen statement below the ingredients list.īut the company has since redesigned the box to make the words “Vanilla flavour” more prominent and included the word “wheat” on the front of the pack.DEAR Professor Science: What makes Rice Krispies go Snap! Crackle! Pop!? “Imagine if the ingredient added was peanut.” “While the original Rice Krispies also contained gluten, wheat-allergic individuals need to avoid wheat, not gluten. “This makes it high risk for wheat-allergic consumers,” said Cape Town-based allergen specialist Dr Harris Steinman. After a couple of mouthfuls of the now very expensive imported original Rice Krispies, she told her mother: “These taste of nothing!”Īpart from the sugar spike and the dramatically different taste, many complained at the time of the switch that the packaging of the vanilla-flavoured Rice Krispies does carry a clear warning that despite the product’s name, it contains wheat, a common allergen. That’s just what happened in the case of eight-year-old Hannah of Durban. With 21.7g of sugar per 100g, Vanilla Rice Krispies have twice the sugar of the original previously sold in SA, and a whopping three times the sugar of the UK-made original now being sold alongside them.īut will 18 months of eating more sugary cereals have turned children off the original version? Rice Krispies Vanilla is sold in 400g and 600g boxes for about R40 and R63 respectively.įor many lovers of the iconic original Rice Krispies, a once-popular choice among parents as a relatively low-sugar alternative to the likes of Coco Pops, the switch to the sugar-coated, multigrain version was a great big snap, crackle, flop.īut Kellogg insisted that all members of a large test group gave the new Rice Krispies a thumbs-up before the product was put on to the market as a replacement for the original. The company imports the large 510g box from the UK and sells it for about R70 - far more expensive than the local, sweeter, vanilla-flavoured multigrain version which replaced the original in mid-2018. “Yes, we have listened to our consumers who enjoyed the Kellogg’s Rice Krispies Original cereal we’ve been working behind the scenes and have now relaunched the product in the market,” Kellogg's SA’s head of external relations Zandi Mposelwa told TimesLIVE.īut they are no longer made here. Parents who were outraged when Kellogg's SA replaced its original Kellogg’s Rice Krispies with a far sweeter, multigrain version 18 months ago will be happy to know the originals are back - but at a price. ![]()
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