Cheerios
Cheerios are oat ring breakfast cereals from the American company General Mills , which are mainly eaten as muesli .
The rings came on the market as CheeriOats in 1941 , but had to be renamed after a legal battle with Quaker Oats in 1945. Promoted by characters from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show and the Peanuts , it became a nationally known brand in the 1950s, these days Shawn Johnson is a promotional character.
In 2013 there was a heated argument about the "Just Checking" commercial, in which a "mixed race" child talked to his white mother about the product; some viewers believed they discovered racism in it.
In Europe, the product was marketed for a while by Cereal Partners Worldwide , a joint venture with Nestlé , with a larger proportion of sugar and often other grains, but did not establish itself in this form in mainland Europe. The British variants that are still sold are also very sweet.
Ingredients and nutritional values
According to the manufacturer, the "Original Cheerios" are made from whole grain oats , corn starch , sugar , salt, potassium phosphate and with the addition of vitamin E. The recommended portion size is 28 g, which contains 100 kcal , 2 g fat, 20 g carbohydrates and 2 g protein.
Trivia
In medicine , a certain phenomenon on computed tomography images is called the " Cheerio sign " because of its similarity to breakfast cereals . In addition, in fluid mechanics in the USA, the tendency of moist floating bodies to stick together is known as the “Cheerios effect”.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Debate of the spot ( memento of July 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Original Cheerios. Retrieved January 16, 2020 (American English).
- ^ Reed SL, O'Neil KM: Cheerios in the chest . In: Chest . 104, October 1993, pp. 1267-1268. doi : 10.1378 / chest.104.4.1267 . PMID 8404205 .
- ↑ D. Aktuerk, M. Lutz, D. Rosewarne, H. Luckraz: Cheerios in the lung: a rare but characteristic radiographic sign . In: QJM: An International Journal of Medicine . 108, September 2015, pp. 743-744. doi : 10.1093 / qjmed / hcv044 . PMID 25660601 .
- ↑ Dominic Vella: The 'Cheerios Effect' .