Crisp wholegrain balls with real chocolate — the grown-up organic version of the cereal most people remember from childhood. Made by Turtle in Belgium from wholegrain rice, corn and wheat flours with 4.8% real chocolate, no palm oil and no artificial colours or flavours.
Read this if you avoid gluten
These contain wheat. They are not gluten-free.
We are putting that at the top because most of the Turtle range is certified gluten-free, and the packets sit next to each other on the same shelf looking almost identical. It would be very easy for a coeliac shopper to assume the whole brand is safe. This one is not: wholegrain wheat flour is in the base alongside the rice and corn.
If you need gluten-free chocolate cereal, Turtle's Multigrain Flakes with Chocolate is the certified gluten-free equivalent — rice and corn bran with dark chocolate curls, no wheat.
What is actually in it
Wholegrain flours (rice, corn, wheat), cane sugar, chocolate 4.8% (cane sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, natural vanilla extract), fat-reduced cocoa powder, oligofructose, cocoa powder, sunflower lecithin as emulsifier, salt.
Two things worth pulling out of that list. The chocolate is real chocolate — cocoa mass and cocoa butter, not a cocoa-flavoured coating made with vegetable fat, which is what most chocolate cereals use. And the emulsifier is sunflower lecithin rather than soy lecithin, which matters if you avoid soy.
The honest framing
This is a sweetened chocolate breakfast cereal. It is made from wholegrains, it has real chocolate and no palm oil, and it is a genuine improvement on the supermarket version. It is not a health food, and cane sugar is the second ingredient. Eaten over yoghurt with some fruit rather than as a bowl of cereal and milk on its own, it behaves much better.
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