Cinnamon Toast Crunch Strawberry

Ahoy there, friends. I played myself by looking at other people's reviews of this, because there's one that just says it caused an allergic reaction in both their kids with no followup!! Are those kids allergic to legumes?? Are there secret legumes in here??? Am I about to perish!??? (Yes, I am a high-anxiety consumer, but it's also so easy to accidentally consume an allergen, man, especially in 2025 America.)

Anyway, let's pretend that review doesn't exist, since I haven't had any General Mills labelling issues yet, and I also already ate this. It smells really good, like a sweet vanilla/strawberry dessert. Alas the taste does not live up to the smell. It's got a little bit of... not artificial, but like, freeze-dried? flavor to it, which makes sense given the medium of cereal, but is why the original flavor is still superior and cereals should stop trying to do fruit-flavored versions. Augh, my lips are so tingly, but it's probably just from the rough cinnamon texture. Right?!?!?

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10 (I did not perish)

Cinnamon Toast Crunch Hershey's Kisses

These seem like they'd be gross, but they're actually pretty good. Not milk choco (or even white choco if we're being real), but the essence of cinnamon toast crunch milk in a kiss shape. Cinnamony, milky, and with little hard "cereal" pieces in the middle. Like a less cloying, more cerealy dulce de leche kiss. The texture is good and interesting. The taste is like cereal, which is not really "delicious", but is tasty. They also have a buttery inside for some reason (a "cookie finish"), which elevates things. No allergy concerns, no migraine concerns, just the usual "junk food probably bad for your health hehe" concerns.

Overall
Cost: 4/10 [6$, also limited edition so probably unbuyable now]
Taste: 8/10

Sugar Cookie Toast Crunch

I probably can resist a new Cinnamon Toast Crunch flavor, because I've tried a lot of them by now and they're never as good as regular cinnamon toast crunch. But if we don't try new things, our fear & avoidance of new things will grow ever stronger, and it's pretty easy to try new Cinnamon Toast Crunches, so.

These smell very much like a sugar cookie. Impressive work by the GM smell scientists. They taste like, hmm. Something familiar that I can't put my finger on. (Not a sugar cookie). I'll circle back if it comes to me later. The taste is OK... like a vanilla and less-cinnamony cinnamon toast crunch. Nothing unpleasant here, but it's a little lacklustre. Even the leftover milk just tastes like regular milk (no thank you). One of the better CTC spinoffs, but still inferior to the OG. 

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10

Cinnamon Toast Crunch Rolls Cereal

Here we have cinnamon toast crunch in circular disc form, with small dark spirals on top. The whole disc tastes the same, which is very unlike a cinnamon roll in actuality. It is also crunchy, which we hope is unlike a cinnamon roll in actuality. But the taste is not quite "cinnamon toast crunch", it's a little less cinnamon sugar and a little more "roll flavor", whatever that is. This is to its detriment. It is a fine sugary cereal but on the low tier for sugary cereals.

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10

Loaded Cinnamon Toast Crunch

OK, there's a lot of pretty weird things going on here. First of all, are these weird emoji square guys looking to be a new "thing"? I don't like that. Second of all, this is a small box and not family size. I mean, it's family size for me, a family of one, but that's a lexical innovation. Next, these taste very little like cinnamon toast crunch. Gone is the dense, sugary coating we are used to. Instead these puffs are somewhat....bready!? Someone online said they are like the cinnamon twists at Taco Bell, and I can see that. The taste is similar, and they are both weirdly airy, but these have no crunch at all, even dry. It's weird. They're also hardly loaded; it's more like the tiniest layer of pop-tart filling than any vanilla cream. It's OK though. Mild and sweet, like a little cinnamon cake puff. I don't hate it!

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 7/10

Cinnamon Toast Crunch minis Cereal

This had me anxious because there is also a Reese's Puffs Minis. But the label reads as safe, and I gotta live my life, blogarinos. I like regular CTC, and I also like this. It's very airy, so the texture is quite different. The taste is basically identical, though -- cinnamon sugar and a tinge of malt. I don't know which I prefer. Both are solid.

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 7/10