Eleat Balanced, High Protein Cereal

Eleat cereal ticks all the right boxes on paper- the nutritional info is good, the plant basis and ingredients list is good, and so on. On paper, I should really like this cereal. The problem is, it also tastes of paper. I’d tried other Eleat flavours before with mixed results, and I was optimistic that this Mocha Madness flavour would be a good one, as I’m a fan of Fuel5K's Mocha flavour and this might have ended up the same. But there's very little coffee in the flavour at all. The result is a little bit of that toffee-caramel flavour with a hint of cocoa, that reminds me of Lion cereal.

While I’m glad the brand has steered away from artificial sweeteners, there's still something of an odd tang to it that reminds me of those sweeteners, like eating “sugar free toffee” and realising that toffee is meant to taste of burnt sugar, and when it doesn't, the result is odd. It's one of those cases where “low sugar” is seen as a marketing virtue, but when you taste it, you wish they’d put a touch more sugar in it after all.

The packaging promises something delicious, with lumps of milk chocolate and coffee beans pouring down, but what actually pours out of the box is a very plain and cheap-looking brown cereal that begins to disappoint before you even taste it. However on a positive note, despite looking like cheap grain balls like the poor quality kids’ cereal you can get in some budget retailers, this cereal does at least have a filling effect, and unlike those kids’ cereals, if I have this for breakfast at least I’m not hungry by 10am.

At the current asking price of a fiver per 250g bag, it's substantially more expensive than the Fuel5K brand's Mocha boxes (currently about three quid for a 400g box). While this may score higher on protein and lower on sugar than that cereal, it fails in the one crucial respect- I don't actually enjoy eating it, and if I've got both options on the cereal shelf, I know which one I’ll be reaching for.

I want to like the Eleat brand, I really do, but they've got to sort out some of their flavour problems and make things that taste good, not just worthy.

This is the first flavour I've tried in this brand. Its essentially small crunchy crispy protein balls packed with protein and fibre. Best of all for me is that they're gluten free as I'm a Coeliac.

Each pack has 5x 50g servings, which I found was a good amount. The ingredients seem pretty healthy and its low sugar but it does contain extra sweetener from Stevia. The taste is fairy balanced and its not overly sweet, but my wife disliked the Stevia. She's quite sensitive to the taste of sweeteners and just thought the Stevia was too strong. Personally I didn't find it an issue.

If I'm honest, I'm, not the biggest fan of coffee flavoured things and just prefer my coffee in a cup with milk. The flavour isn't that strong, but you do get a coffee twang from it, but given the flavour thats to be expected!

Its not the cheapest cereal, but I'm used to having to pay a fortune for Gluten free cereals. I had it with milk and it tasted OK. Its not my absolute favourite go to cereal ever, but iff you're looking for something with good ingredients, high protein, low sugar, vegan and gluten free then you should give it a go.

Unpleasant tasting crunchy balls with an over-powering taste of cinnamon and aniseed. The combination of the cereal and oat milk just didn't taste right. It left a ghastly and lingering aftertaste. It's subjective of course, but my partner was of the same opinion.

Not the greatest tasting protein cereal. Prefer the vanilla. Crunchy and filling but also a bit sickly.

There is nothing 'blitz' about this product, it does taste like cardboard, I'm glad I've only got 7 more pots to get through, although I might feed them to my hens instead. Very disappointed as the marketing video really impressed me so I was hoping for something tasty.