Mini Swirlz was a brand of frosted
cereal produced by the
Kellogg Company
The Kellogg Company, doing business as Kellogg's, is an American multinational food manufacturing company headquartered in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States. Kellogg's produces cereal and convenience foods, including crackers and toas ...
. The first flavor,
Cinnamon Bun, was introduced in 2005, and was successful enough that two temporary flavors followed, Fudge Ripple and
Peanut Butter. The cereal was made mainly with sweetened cornmeal, whole oat grain, and whole wheat grain, with a flavored topping that corresponds to the variety. The pieces in each version are shaped to resemble cinnamon buns. In 2009 Mini Swirlz was discontinued by Kellogg's.
The bite-size pieces are shaped like miniature cinnamon rolls. The pre-sweetened multi-grain cereal is both naturally and artificially flavored.
In early 2010, Mini Swirlz was reintroduced by Kellogg's under the current name of "Cinnabon Cereal" as part of a deal between Kellogg's and
Cinnabon, the world's largest producer of cinnamon rolls.
History
Originally introduced in 1991 as Kellogs Cinnamon Mini Buns. Original ads for the cereal worded it as "Your kids can enjoy the taste of cinnamon buns for breakfast with no added fat or artificial flavors. Just corn and whole grain oats and plenty of the cinnamon crunchy taste they love. New Kellogg's Cinnamon Mini Buns. Little buns that are big on nutrition." The ad was titled, "Eating 70 Cinnamon Buns Can Be Nutritious".
Cinnamon Mini Buns was then discontinued by Kellogg's. It was reintroduced as Mini Swirls and again as Kellogg's Cinnabon licensed after
Cinnabon World Famous Cinnamon Rolls.
Nutritional information
Mini Swirlz is low in
saturated fat and also very low in
cholesterol
Cholesterol is any of a class of certain organic molecules called lipids. It is a sterol (or modified steroid), a type of lipid. Cholesterol is biosynthesized by all animal cells and is an essential structural component of animal cell mem ...
. This cereal is high in Zinc and
Vitamin C
Vitamin C (also known as ascorbic acid and ascorbate) is a water-soluble vitamin found in citrus and other fruits and vegetables, also sold as a dietary supplement and as a topical 'serum' ingredient to treat melasma (dark pigment spots) ...
,
Thiamin
Thiamine, also known as thiamin and vitamin B1, is a vitamin, an essential micronutrient, that cannot be made in the body. It is found in food and commercially synthesized to be a dietary supplement or medication. Phosphorylated forms of t ...
,
Riboflavin,
Niacin
Niacin, also known as nicotinic acid, is an organic compound and a form of vitamin B3, an essential human nutrient. It can be manufactured by plants and animals from the amino acid tryptophan. Niacin is obtained in the diet from a variet ...
,
Vitamin B6
Vitamin B6 is one of the B vitamins, and thus an essential nutrient. The term refers to a group of six chemically similar compounds, i.e., " vitamers", which can be interconverted in biological systems. Its active form, pyridoxal 5′-phosp ...
,
Folate
Folate, also known as vitamin B9 and folacin, is one of the B vitamins. Manufactured folic acid, which is converted into folate by the body, is used as a dietary supplement and in food fortification as it is more stable during processing an ...
,
Vitamin B12
Vitamin B12, also known as cobalamin, is a water-soluble vitamin involved in metabolism. It is one of eight B vitamins. It is required by animals, which use it as a cofactor in DNA synthesis, in both fatty acid and amino acid metabolism. ...
,
Iron
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, and
sugar.
See also
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List of breakfast cereals
This is a list of breakfast cereals. Many cereals are trademarked brands of large companies, such as Kellogg's, General Mills, Malt-O-Meal Company, Malt-O-Meal, Nestlé, Quaker Oats Company, Quaker Oats and Post Foods, but similar equivalent pro ...
References
External links
Cinnamon Mini BunsMini Swirlz page at Kellogg's websiteA list of ingredients
{{Kellogg's
Kellogg's cereals
Food and drink introduced in 2005