Produced by Nature's Path Foods. Available online here (link also includes ingredients and nutrition info) in the United States, or at many health food/natural stores.
Cold breakfast cereal is one of the more frustrating products to shop for on a gluten-free diet. In a normal grocery store, nearly every product on the shelves contains either wheat or oats (which are frequently contaminated with gluten and may cause reactions even alone in some gluten-intolerant people. See my post On Oats.) and even those few that don't, like the ubiquitous Corn Flakes and Rice Krispies contain barley malt for flavoring, which, of course, contains gluten. If you want to step beyond the very few cereals that are actually clean, you have to look at natural foods or things that are made specifically gluten free. I'm picking EnviroKidz Organic Amazon Frosted Flakes as my first review because they're what I have sitting on top of my fridge at the moment. :D
The ingredients here are comfortingly simple: Corn meal, cane juice, salt. The cereal itself is likewise simple. The texture is a little coarser than your generic or big-brand corn flakes, and they're crunchier and denser, seeming to last longer in milk, as well. The taste is a good, plain corn flake with enough sweetness to be noticed without making you feel like you're eating desert for breakfast. The lack of malt flavoring isn't terribly noticable to me, and I'm a real lover of malt.
Living near to a Whole Foods which sells these, I have bought them several times even though I don't eat cereal every day, but I'm not sure they're remarkable enough for me to mail-order them if I'm not living near a store that sells them. If you have a gluten-free kid who misses Frosted Flakes, though, I'm sure they'll enjoy these.
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