Honey Puffs (formerly sold in Australia under the name Honey Weets) is a

breakfast cereal Cereal, formally termed breakfast cereal (and further categorized as cold cereal or warm cereal), is a traditional breakfast food made from processed cereal grains. It is traditionally eaten as part of breakfast, or a snack food, primarily in ...

produced by

Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing Company The Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing Company is the trading name of two sister food companies (Australian Health and Nutrition Association Ltd and New Zealand Health Association Ltd). Both are wholly owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. F ...

and sold in

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

and formerly sold in

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

. It is made by puffing pieces of wheat and lightly coating them all over with honey.

Packaging

The box features a 3D bee in a red cap and red shoes skating away from the cereal bowl on blue ramp. It is printed on the box that Honey Puffs are made with real honey, don't have any

artificial colours Food coloring, or color additive, is any dye, pigment, or substance that imparts color when it is added to food or drink. They come in many forms consisting of liquids, powders, gels, and pastes. Food coloring is used in both commercial food p ...

or flavours, are nut free for children and are 99% fat-free. The back of the box tells you how to play Sticky Stucky and features the same bee from the front, two bees wearing blue shoes and a bee wearing green shoes all flying around. There are also three bees hiding in between two flowers somehow growing in the hive.

History

In 2003, Honey Puffs was the only cereal out of nearly two hundred that was judged as "okay" by The Australian Consumers Association, based on

nutritional value Nutritional value or nutritive value as part of food quality is the measure of a well-balanced ratio of the essential nutrients carbohydrates, fat, protein, minerals, and vitamins in items of food or diet concerning the nutrient requirements of the ...

. New Zealand television show

Studio 2 Live ''Studio 2 LIVE'' was a New Zealand children's television show. It was originally named ''Studio 2'' up until 2010, when it was renamed Studio 2 LIVE. It premiered on 22 March 2004 after ''WNTV'' (''What Now''s afternoon show) was cancelled. It s ...

once held "The Honey Puffs Mad Movie Challenge". Competition entries made a short movie including a

bee Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey. Bees are a monophyly, monophyletic lineage within the ...

character and a box of Honey Puffs.

References

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Honey Puffs

Honey Puffs advertisement
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