Weetos
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| Product type | Breakfast cereal |
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| Owner | Weetabix |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Related brands | Weetabix |
| Markets | United Kingdom Republic of Ireland Scandinavia Finland |
| Website | https://www.weetabixfoodcompany.co.uk/our-brands/weetos |
Weetosis a brand of chocolate-flavouredbreakfast cerealproduced byWeetabix Food Company.The name comes from the fact that its primary ingredient is wheat (Weet-) and the cereal pieces are inOshapes (-Os), the same naming convention that is used on the company's flagship cerealWeetabix(Wheat Biscuits).
The brand initially began with the Weetos cereal, officially known asWeetos Chocolate Flavour,and has expanded to includeWeetos Meteors,Weetos Bars(which are cereal snacks in bar-form), andWeetos Vs. Alien Invasion[citation needed].
History
[edit]Weetos is the only cereal by Weetabix Food Company that is marketed toward the youth and children segment and, as a result, has a long history withmascots.The original mascot, introduced in 1987, was a skateboarder named Derek, who "found life really boring, until new Weetos came out of the blue!",delivered in a broadWest Midlandsaccent. From 1992, the breakfast mascot wasProfessor Weeto,an elderly gentleman dressed in a whitelabcoat,whose remaining hair was white and who wore a pair of spectacles constructed from two large Weetos pieces. He was the mascot that acted as the creator and sole advertiser for the cereal. In 2010, he was replaced byThe Weeto,a strong Weeto with arms and legs who'd do anything to get into the cereal for children.
In 2006, Weetabix Food Company lowered the amount of sugar present in Weetos by over 35% as part of a drive to appeal to health conscious parents, which resulted in a change of flavour.[1]This was coupled with the dropping of long-running mascot Professor Weeto in favour of neutral images of children participating in various sports.
Products
[edit]| Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Energy | 1,594 kJ (381 kcal) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
74.7g | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sugars | 23.5g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dietary fibre | 6.2g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4.9g | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Saturated | 1g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8.4g | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Serving size 30g | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| †Percentages estimated usingUS recommendationsfor adults,[2]except for potassium, which is estimated based on expert recommendation fromthe National Academies.[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weetos Chocolate Flavour
[edit]Weetos is packaged in a brown rectangular cardboard box with the logo and an advert of whatever toy is inside.
Ingredients includewholegrain wheat(41%), wheat flour,sugars,cocoa powder,vegetable oil,milk powder and various vitamins and minerals.
Weetos Meteors
[edit]Launched in 2008, Weetos Meteors is aspace-themed cereal that combines the original O-shape pieces with star and meteor shapes ones. It is one of the few breakfast cereals that directly advertises to children seeing as it is not high in fat, salt and sugar (HFSS) and as a result, doesn't qualify forOfcom'sban on promotional tie-ups with HFSS food products.[4]
Weetos vs. Alien Invaders
[edit]Launched in 2011, Weetos vs. Alien Invaders contains both the original O-shaped pieces along with three ringed alien pieces.[5]
Weetos Bar
[edit]Weetos is also available in a 20g cereal bar. They contain chocolate flavour wheat hoops and form soft and chewy bar, with a layer of milk chocolate on the bottom, and are individually wrapped. There is however ambiguity in the calorific content, as the box listed content is 99 calories per bar while the Weetos website declares 88 calories per bar.[6][failed verification]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Keating, Sheila (August 6, 2005)."TimesOnline.co.uk - Food detective: cereal offenders".London: Times Newspapers Ltd.Retrieved2009-06-28.[dead link]
- ^United States Food and Drug Administration(2024)."Daily Value on the Nutrition and Supplement Facts Labels".FDA.Archivedfrom the original on 2024-03-27.Retrieved2024-03-28.
- ^National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Health and Medicine Division; Food and Nutrition Board; Committee to Review the Dietary Reference Intakes for Sodium and Potassium (2019). Oria, Maria; Harrison, Meghan; Stallings, Virginia A. (eds.).Dietary Reference Intakes for Sodium and Potassium.The National Academies Collection: Reports funded by National Institutes of Health. Washington, DC: National Academies Press (US).ISBN978-0-309-48834-1.PMID30844154.Archivedfrom the original on 2024-05-09.Retrieved2024-06-21.
- ^"New Weetos Space Themed Variant".Talking Retail. Archived fromthe originalon 2009-01-08.RetrievedJuly 1,2009.
- ^"Vitamin D3 K2".
- ^"Bars".