(UPDATE: I reviewed Pumpkin Spice Life Cereal!)
“Pumpkin Spice Life” doesn’t even sound like the name of a cereal. It just sounds like an accurate description of September through November these days.
From yogurt and doughnuts to dish soap and cat litter (nope, I’m not kidding), pumpkin spice takes no prisoners with its potent combo of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, allspice, sometimes cloves, and sometimes even actual pumpkin—but usually just an orange Starbucks squirt bottle labeled “P.U.M.P.K.I.N.”
Two years ago, you would have been hard pressed to find pumpkin spice in any cereal outside of Trader Joe’s Pumpkin O’s. But now as the Great Pumpkin Invasion continues (not to be confused with the beloved holiday special Duck and Cover Charlie Brown: It’s the Great Pumpkin Invasion!), more and more breakfast classics are getting in on the fun.
Frosted Mini-Wheats and Puffins did it last year, Special K has already thrown its hat in the 2016 ring using its noodly red letter appendages, and now even the hip ol’ Quaker dude is investigating this hip trend all the young people are raving about.
It looks a lot like normal Life, but it claims to be “Naturally Flavored with Other Natural Flavors.” This is in sharp contrast to the spicy superstars of Special K Pumpkin Spice Crunch, but I, for one, am looking forward to Pumpkin Spice Life: “the cereal so natural they named it twice.”
Limited Edition Pumpkin Spice Life cereal popped up on product review site Influenster the other day, and our ever-vigilant friends at Candy Hunting blew the story as wide open as a chunky gourd on an episode of Punkin’ Chunkin’. Thanks again to Candy Hunting for being a regular Encyclopedia Brown when it comes to all things brown: be they chocolate, caramel, or peanut butter.
While we we wait for Pumpkin Spice Life to hit shelves, we can just squirt a bunch of that P.U.M.P.K.I.N. syrup on our Cinnamon Life.
Thanks for sharing the pic.
If this is HALF as good as the truly tremendous vanilla life, I will stock up on these during the limited season.
MP
I’m excited, too. Here’s hoping the multigrain base provides a more flavorful platform for the spices than previous pumpkin spice cereals have.
Life contains Oat, Corn, Wheat, and Rice flour (in that order) so it has a heartier taste and substantial post crunch chew. With the exception of Wheat Chex (which I love for crunch) the Chex flavors contain Rice or Corn flour. I would argue Chex is more crispy than crunchy 🙂
That’s a fair observation. I’m a weirdo, so I eat Wheat Chex more than pretty much any other variety, making my point of view skewed.
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This is actually kinda funny… ^^
The wheat chex are the only flavor i’m not really interested in since we already have them here (original, honey and chocolate flavored). But especially the corn chex are something i really need to try someday (especially ’cause we don’t really have that much, if not almost none – except for honey pops (corn pops with honey flavor – corn cereal here and way too much wheat and whole grain cereal). ^^
oh! Adam Thank you very much for the amazing info!
This makes life as cereal really interesting again, since i already had wheat, rice or/and corn as cereal base all of them packed in little squares should be something really different ^^
Thanks again! 🙂
Cat Litter with Pumpkin Spice fragrance? xD
Ok, i laughed pretty hard on that. THANKS!
(Though i get the point of having an autumnally smell in your house when your cat had to poop 😉 xD)
btw is there a real difference between life cereal and chex? (except all the flavors?). I mean Crispix is out of the race ’cause it has two sides with two different cereal bases, but life and chex seem so similar… oO
btw2:
Though i understand the reason behind putting pumpkin spice flavored products out there (i mean there are a lot that actually like the taste, including me, and the firms somehow hope to get a piece of the cake too):
Is there somehow a decline in pumpkin spiced products in sight? Meaning is the pumpkingeddon finally over and just the really good products will be back this season? Or do we have to wait until december until we finally know it?
In regards to Chex v. Life, Life is much flatter and tightly layered than the hollow innards of Chex, though Chex tends to crunch much more intensely. Likewise, the crosshatched holes of Chex are much more noticeable than the tightly striped Life.
As for pumpkin spice, I see no end in sight. I think more and more things will be released this year. I could be wrong, but the fact that we’ve already heard of two new pumpkin spice cereals—and one of them’s a lowkey brand like Life—tells me the great pumpkin is gonna keep rollin’.
seems/sounds like a completrely different cereal then. Interesting! thanks for the info dan (as always! :))