Why do trix taste different

General Mills launched Trix in as an off-shoot of its cereal Kix. Rather than a rabbit mascot, a flamingo flanked the cereal box. The earliest commercials didn't have any mascot at all, just a little jingle and an excited boy espousing about "some Trix! Expanding upon the original red, yellow, and orange colors, General Mills made Trix more vibrant with the addition of Grapity Purple in , Lime Green in , Wildberry Blue in , and Watermelon in In the s, Trix introduced color swirls like raspberry-orange and wildberry-red, but General Mills discontinued the swirls in because children in focus groups preferred the taste of the solid-colored cereal.

But I hate carrots. I like Trix. General Mills put a lot of money into Trix commercials, and the rabbit has become an iconic mascot of Trix cereal. When Trix was introduced in the mids, the cereal was shaped as tiny balls.

Though i never had Trix, i really rooted for the comeback of the shapes. Now i have no excuse anymore not to try them xD. My childhood dreams have come true! What a time to be alive lol. I know GM will never go back on their decision to make breakfast junk food slightly less junky and much less tasty. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

Skip to content. Posted by dan g. I had them once after they went fruit-shaped and never touched them again. Oh, they did indeed change the flavor, and I was part of the focus group that tested it out. Honestly, this is a bit of conjecture as I was a friggin' kid at the time, but I distinctly remember eating for breakfast a couple week in a row of one box of Trix coming out of a White, Unlabeled box.

I knew it was Trix: it was a fruit-shaped cereal of Cherry, Orange, and Lemon shapes. I think they might have added lime at this stage. It had passed the "platonic spheres" stage by the time I was seven or so, which is when I think this was happening. I might have been nine. Brighter colors, but it tasted, if I recall, weaker. Okay, I don't know a damn thing how it tasted. This was almost 20 years ago. I was one of the families that tested "Secret Treasures" breakfast cereal, and a couple other things.

I remember the old Trix as being a lot tastier. Tangier maybe more citric acidier? Basically you have SansPoint to blame for this. I remember once when I was probably about 12 years old, my family was in Chicago for vacation or some such reason.

Anyway we spent a day at the Museum of Science and Industry, and towards the end of the day we were walking through some exhibit when a lady in a white coat approaches me and asks who I am there with and if I'd like to be part of a study they were conducting. So I ask my parents, they're like yeah-sure-can-we-watch, and she says sure and leads us into some back hallway. They actually had this one-way mirror thing for observers to look into the study room that she takes me into, so my family stands outside of that, watching.

She proceeds to give me some play money, and then unveils a huge board with EVERY type of candy bar in existence at the moment glued to it. She starts asking me which ones I would buy and why and I'm just in 7th heaven. The best part was that my mom snapped what is still my very favorite picture from growing up - it captures me, through the mirror, in the process of shopping all this candy, but even better: the reflection of the bitter, spiteful face of my younger sister, peering through the window in a jealous rage at me in all my product-testing glory.

And yes. Response by poster: Huh. I was almost convinced that it was just nostalgia, but I guess it really doesn't taste as good. Is the same true about Captain Crunch? I still like Captain Crunch, but it seems to me like it doesn't quite have the sharpness of taste that it used to. I had been assuming it was just nostalgia again, but perhaps that recipe also changed. Related, from this article on Slate it sound like cereal companies change the recipe whenever the weather changes.

The makers of Cocoa Pebbles admitted as much when asked about the use and promotion of polydextrose as a dietary fiber. He says the company is instead fortifying the cereal with higher doses of vitamin D, which he describes as a "more timely and relevant" nutrient. I'd almost be surprised if any two boxes tasted the same.