Move over, Life: there’s a new cereal that’s kid tested, and Mother Nature approved.
But much like climate change, we’ll need to act quickly if we want to get a handle on it. It’s called Honey Toasted Kernza Cereal, and it’s the result of an initiative by General Mills and Cascadian Farm that’s over two years in the making, all to promote its namesake grain.
See, Kernza is an official name for intermediate wheatgrasses that have a number of positive environmental impacts, from helping fauna restore their habitats to protecting our flora’s water supply—not to mention keeping more carbon from impacting our atmosphere.
While I don’t cover nearly as many “healthy” cereals on this blog as I do stomach-frostingly sweet ones, I’ll do anything I can to signal-boost a cereal that ensures a future world where we can still eat gut-glazingly sugary breakfasts—and it’s probably a more sustainable cereal eco-solution than living off the grid in a cabin made of mortared Mini-Wheats.
(Can you imagine the dust problems in the crawlspace?)
Cascadian Farm’s Honey Toasted Kernza Cereal can be acquired by donating $25 or more to The Land Institute. 100% of the money goes to this group that’s helping hype up Kernza across the globe, so it can be a bigger household name than all those second millennia-old bananas found in Ancient Grain Cheerios. By unfortunate circumstance, Honey Toasted Kernza Cereal is more limited of an edition than anticipated: crop failure led to a smaller harvest that could only constitute 6,000 boxes.
So if you want to pair your morning R&R with a little PR for an especially green greenhorn grain, head to the cereal’s Fundly page.
