Food Theory: Froot Loops and Apple Jacks Are SECRETLY The Same!

mmm this cereal is totally tubular do you agree 90's kid 2 couldn't agree more 90's kid number 1 the cereal to bomb what do you think 90's kid 3 I mean the cereal is okay just wondering why We are having breakfast in a graffiti-heavy alley, did any of you actually carry these bowls, cutlery, cereal boxes, and milk from your house to this graffiti-heavy alley? Are they thinking too much about this guy? Are we here spontaneously? in an alley with a lot of graffiti, I don't know, man, it's the '90s, okay, stop saying alley with a lot of graffiti, why is only one of my jumpsuit straps fastened?

Where are our parents? Hello Internet, welcome to

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theory

. We parents just don't get it, we theorize about it so now I started this channel as a way to address the big questions in the

food

world is a hot dog a sandwich how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop? ? Chuck e cheese actually recycles their pizza and every '90s kid who ever ate cereal on the nose of a graffiti-filled alley? There is no bigger unanswered food question than this one. They called him Applejack. Shouldn't it taste good?

Manzana. That's right, today food

theory

is finally answering the question that's been lingering since Applejack's. introduced in 1965 what it tastes like now from the beginning Apple Jacks has said that its cereal is a claim that they still make today both in commercials and on the box itself, but as its famous mid-90s advertising campaign Cinnamon and Cinnamon points out. Apple are not the flavors that really stand out when they hit your taste buds. I don't understand why you would like a cereal called Apple

jacks

that doesn't taste like

apple

s. We know why, yeah, okay, geniuses, why that's a good answer.

The net taste of Applejack cereal is something unique, something that is immediately recognizable but difficult to identify decades later, we still do not have a definitive answer until today because food theory discovered a new way to approach this enigma and it all starts with recognition . That Apple Jacks is actually a different cereal, you heard that, right? I'm saying that Apple Jacks are not really Apple Jacks. Follow me on this. Let's start by talking about Kellogg's cornflakes, a cereal that has been around since the 1890s throughout the years. Kellogg's has tried a few different varieties of cornflakes, including a sugar glazed version in 1952 that is marketed to children today as Kellogg's Frosted Flakes in your part of the world.

You may also know them as zuccarita frosties, corn ice cream with sucralose or corn ice cream now, as you might suspect, Kellogg's frozen flakes. and Kellogg's cornflakes are the

same

cereal, other than the fact that one has a layer of added sugar and the other does not, this is to say that a freshly roasted cornflake at the factory can end up in a box of cornflakes or in ice cream. box of corn flakes, depending on which assembly line is assigned a comparison of the two cereals, the ingredients listed also confirm this ground corn, ground corn, sugar, sugar, malt flavor, malt flavor, salt, and Get this, not only are the listed ingredients of corn flakes and frosted flakes, minerals and vitamins. identical, but they are also listed in exactly the

same

order, which is important because, as the International Council on Food Additives explains, food labels must list all the ingredients contained in the food in descending order according to the amount found in the final product that is going to be consumed.

Let's say that if sugar appears before malt flavor, that means that the food product contains more sugar than malt flavor by weight, this way food labels allow us to compare the quantities of ingredients with each other, so why what the hell am I rambling about cornflakes and ice cream? flakes when this episode is supposed to be about Apple Jacks, well save your alpha bits for a second because this is what for some reason no one talks about Apple Jacks, they are fruit

loops

with an extra step in exactly the same way that frozen flakes are corn flakes. by an extra step, I mean look at the two cereals side by side, wake up sheep, they are the same size and shape, they are the same shade of orange, they are the same shade of green, they would both be Kellogg's cereals if they were.

Not because of the little red specks, I defy anyone to try to tell them apart and when we compare the listed ingredients of both cereals, it's like deja vu all over again, we see that every main ingredient of both cereals is identical and listed. In an identical order, as we get to the end of the list among the ingredients that make up two percent or less of the cereal by weight, we get some differences, the colors, for example, are listed in different orders, this, of course , it's to be expected because

froot

loop cereal pieces come in a wider variety of colors than Apple Jacks, but color aside, it's clear that Froot Loops are the base cereal and any orange or green Froot Loop pieces may be destined to one day become Apple Jacks once they receive an extra red-flecked coat.

That makes them taste different. The fact that fruit

loops

were introduced a couple of years before

apple

jacks

came out also supports this theory. Note that there is no ingredient listed in fruit loops that does not also appear in apple jacks. Note maltodextrin, a flavorless binding agent. It is sometimes listed as modified corn starch and is also found in modified food starch, so despite that discrepancy and terminology, both cereals share that ingredient, plus food distributors have some freedom in deciding how to list its ingredients, for example, while modified corn starch is only listed on the Apple Jack's label, that ingredient may very well be present in

froot

loops under modified food starch, a general term that includes modified corn starch, but Enough about the ingredients shared by both cereals, the ingredients of interest here are those that appear only on the Apple Jack's label Dried apples Apple juice concentrate Corn starch Cinnamon Wheat starch Baking soda Now the corn starch and starch wheat are mostly tasteless and are used to add texture more than flavor, so basically in the end the ingredients that differentiate the flavor of Apple Jacks the flavor of fruit loops is apple and cinnamon, as suggested by the box, so that must be why the taste of apple jacks is so hard to pin down, it's a complex mix of flavors, not only does apple jack cereal taste like apples, not only does it taste like cinnamon but it also tastes like loops of fruits, specifically the orange ones and also the green ones since green apple pieces were added in 1998, I mean, there are many different fruit flavors competing for the attention of your taste buds because, like everyone I know that the loops of orange colored fruits are orange flavored and the green colored fruit loops are lime flavored, right, I mean, I'm sure the label only says natural flavors, so we can't verify that in any way, but Still there are oranges and limes plastered all over the fruit loop commercials.

Toucan Sam even explicitly states that orange and lime are flavors. I love the taste of orange, lemon, sherry and diamond. Now Toucan Sam only lists five flavors in that clip, but here in the US we actually have blue colored loops and we also take those from other countries that have stricter regulations against artificial coloring, naturally I wanted to check my suspicions of that blue loops are blueberry flavored and that's when it happened that I stumbled upon information that completely changed my view of the world, friends, I honestly can't believe the words that are about to come out. out of my mouth because I can barely believe it, but my research tells me that fruit loops all taste the same, you heard that right, all the colors taste identical, I mean I swear when I was a kid I could taste the difference between each loop of color, but then again, i also swore that berenstain bears were spelled e.i berenstein bears, so maybe I should stop trusting my childhood brain so much because apparently in 1999 kellogg's revealed to the straight junkie that his bits of cereal were indeed all the same flavor and then again in 2014, a froot loop spokesperson admitted the same thing to kltv7 in east Texas, the name of that fruit flavor spelled with two o's, which is apparently a mix of flavors of fruit, according to the fruit loop spokesperson, the fruit is a blend of exactly seven flavors of orange and lemon. cherry, raspberry, apple, blueberry and lime, that means toucan.

Sam is technically telling the truth when he says that there are orange, lemon, cherry, lime, and berry flavors present in the cereal. It's just being a little misleading about the fact that every piece of cereal, regardless of its color, contains a mix of all of those flavors, you know, I need to verify this for myself because I'm telling you, my child brain absolutely tested one hundred percent. a hundred different flavors and I also clearly remember the commercials where loops were extruded from individual pieces of fruit, so I just can't take Kellogg's word on this, not when my own taste buds have been telling me otherwise my entire life. and that means it's time for a blind taste test, so today we're here with the glorious task of determining what Apple Jacks really tastes like.

I like it because like any '90s commercial tells you, they don't taste like apples and of course parents always like them, well then what do they taste like? Why do you like them? And children never have an answer. question to this day, yes, they are always like we do and then everyone laughs at them because they are stupid, children have reasons for their likes and dislikes, people those commercials always drove me crazy, I like it too, well, then give them an alternative. If you don't want them to tell you it tastes like apples, then give them something else to keep you going, even if it's like a sugary sweetness or why you like them because they're crunchy because they're fun, little ones.

Necklaces can be made with literally any explanation. The box is a great color. Don't know. In our quest to determine what flavor Apple Jacks are, we stumbled upon the fact that fruit loops are actually the same cereal. Apple Jacks are just a fruit. loop with one or two ingredients added is crazy, which begs the question of well so what do fruit loops taste like and I swear when I was a kid, I swear every color had a different flavor? The Internet tells me otherwise, yes, the Internet according to research. Actually, all the froot loops online taste the same, regardless of what color you are eating.

To be fair, I wanted to put it to the test, like I'm sure online research is one thing, but the nice thing about having a channel to do this is we can do it. We tested these ourselves, so today we will determine if the fruit loops are actually the same flavor. In the first step, we'll taste test each of these visually to see how they taste, but then we'll blindfold ourselves and taste them again to see if I can actually accurately predict the different flavors, so try them with your eyes open, try them blindfolded, yes, okay, red starting with red cherry, obviously, yes, cherry, I mean cherry, it's supposed to be cherry, cherry in the synthetic sense, maybe it has a little spicy berry flavor. in the back maybe a back part okay blue okay blue what's supposed to be blue should be a berry what's blue blue raspberry you're probably a blue wrapper it's a blueberry I guess which is a blueberry or blue raspberry smell, right?

It smells different also this one tastes less strong than the red one the red tasted stronger isn't that okay? And I think maybe this tastes like blueberry maybe it would, it would be a very spicy blueberry, lemon yellow, I know lemonade smells good, lemon yellow smell, oh. yeah, it smells like lemon yellow oh yeah, well it's definitely lemon yellow, I think it tastes like lemon, yeah, that one feels lemon yellow, I don't know orange, orangey orange, right, this is lime, it's supposed to be lime because everyone They are citrus then. I'm not clear about all this, I think there's a difference, I'm not sure what the only way to tell is, I think there's a difference, load, load, load the blindfold, here we go, so Matthew is blindfolded and then I'm going to line up each flavor. one by one right here so we have them very clearly distinguished and I'll give them to Matthew in a totally random order without telling him which is which we'll see if he can tell him any of them oh that smells like yellow lemon okay right away like that Maybe a little orangey orangey, but let me, let me try it, I'm getting a lot of sugary sweetness, uh-huh uh-huh, that's right so far, it's got that little cardboard aftertaste. stop delaying you have to choose one it's clearly orange loop two here we go loop dose nose nosethis is a slightly more subtle citrus I think they are very citrus okay slightly more subtle citrus here we go so it's not as citrusy as the other one I have a very uh it's the same.

I noticed that that loop was actually significantly smaller than the one that came before. Turns out it was, which makes me want to say it was purple because when we were doing the first taste test, the purple. the ones that seem to be smaller for some reason i don't know why you want a bigger one in the same color yeah check me out ok we're still on loop two here it smells like your perfume oh yeah ok it's purple . or blue, I have to pick one, I'm going to say purple in that loop, two etched purples, moving on to loop three, okay, it smells like citrus because it smells like dinner sugar, yeah, here the wave brings it back here oh, okay, yeah, yeah, that's lemon or lime right there, okay, clearly, that's a uh, a lime, okay, easy, I got it easy, right, 100 every time loop number four smells easy, I'm getting full after all these loops, I thought, oh, it smells like citrus like everything else, okay and let's go, oh, more subtle.

Much more subtle, I thought you'd say that, yes.yes, I think it might be blue, okay, smell the horse, okay, smell the horse, ah it smells like lemon, like everything that's come before, oh, fantastic, yes , open up, this one isn't that strong, I think it's a cherry, do you want a spatula? a red, okay, oh, that was cherry, it was clearly the cherry, okay, that's a strong, spicy citrus, oh, that's a thick guy, I know, but I'm dumb, oh, I will say that this flavor is felt for some reason less tasty than many of the others that have come before, really yes, the last one, this one and the piece you gave me before, wait for a weirder one, eh, yes, and maybe it's just me imagining it or whatever, but it feels like the one with the least flavor here.

Wait one more, uh, weird, yeah, I don't know what that specific flavor is about, but I'm not differentiating it too much, like everyone's feeling kind of neutral, no way, yeah, so I'm guessing that one is yellow. I'm determined to find one of these, one in this color that actually tastes like something to you here, put it on still nothing, yeah, still nothing, yeah, I don't know, try one more, okay, maybe one more, maybe it's just this flavor, yes. maybe it's just this color that just doesn't have any flavor or maybe my pet, no other one is good enough oh oh we have one, well the last four I've given you have been different colors so yeah do you want learn?

How did you do it? As I did? 10 out of 10. Beating the odds, you actually managed to get 100 of those completely wrong. Yes, even blind guessing won't get you right, so six flavors is a lot to choose from to make sure it's right. fair and also to give us the best chance of being able to tell the difference in the flavors we narrowed it down to two so Matthew chose red and yellow as the two flavors that he thought would be most distinct and we should try them so we have 10 of each one and basically I'm going to give one at a time to Matthew and all he has to do is flip a coin 50 50 and we'll see if he can beat the average yeah.

I play better than chance at this point, exactly right, so I'm not going to tell you which stack they come from. I'm just going to pick one and put them next to each other so you can't. Listen what pile I'm picking up from all that okay ready loop one red loop two red loop three red blue four um red five lemon yellow loop six red loop seven red ah they all taste the same uh yellow loop nine yellow loop ten loop red eleven loop yellow twelve yellow I know I'm out of red at this point loop thirteen do you want to concede defeat yellow continue okay ready loop 14. yellow 15. just make it stop okay okay okay red you got less than 50 correct so there You have it folks, I know the internet has been talking about this, but I can now confirm it first hand, there is no difference between the different colors of the fruit loops and the flavors, they all have this general citric acid lemon flavor, yes, and interestingly enough .

From the ingredients list it seems that one of the few or only ingredients that could actually give something that flavor is the extra vitamin C that they try to add to the cereal to get moms to buy it, so the ascorbic acid in it can do in it actually tastes a little more citrusy and other cereals wouldn't necessarily have that, so fruit loops have vitamin C. It actually has 25 apples, it has no vitamin C at all, yes, not in the slightest and almost all the others ingredients are the same between these two. cereals in the same order, yes, and they are in exactly the same order, so we would expect them to look and taste almost identical, except maybe for the citrus flavor here and then any apples that actually taste like Kellogg's, did you win this one? round? see that all their cereal pieces, no matter the color, taste like fruit, so the apple jacks are not only apple and cinnamon flavored, but they are apple, cinnamon and fruit flavored and to show that they belong to the same family of flavors we did another blind test. try this time with steph blindfolded and having to choose if I was giving her froot loops or apple jacks here one last extra experiment, mystery loop one, okay oh oh, that's a fruit loop loop two oh also a froot loop oh jeez, loop three this is still a froot loop stop giving me fruit loops loop four ah this still tastes like trouble loop five no, I'm not kidding, are you giving me all the fruits?

I'm starting to get really paranoid, okay, this is applejack, oh god. finally an applejack apple jack apple jack all the way an orange a loop seven is a fruit loop shot I can't tell if it's because my tongue is so mottled or how blue I'm getting so insecure now I feel like you're just playing with me loop 9. applejack without bad aftertaste no wait no wait that was a fruit loop I can't say oh no that was an apple jack that was a froot loop I don't know oh no oh no, I really don't know I know I really don't I know and that's because there's another prominent flavor in all this other flavor that goes beyond sugar and cinnamon and synthetic fruit, the flavor that ties all the cardboard together and that's not me trying to be bad or something, It's the scientific truth, one of the main reasons these cereals taste like cardboard is the cellulose, also known as fiber from apples and fruit loops, which have added fiber in the form of oat fiber and soluble corn fiber , our bodies cannot break down fiber. and so these large cellulose molecules remain intact and actually kill bacteria and build up as they travel through our intestines.

That's why it's important to have fiber in your diet even if your body can't digest it. Fiber helps your digestive tract run smoothly. It's a vital component of paper products, including cardboard, so if you've ever thought your oatmeal or cereal tastes like cardboard because they share ingredients, today I aim to pin down the taste of Applejack cereal once and for all and What I Discovered is that there are four main flavors at play here, sugar, cardboard, apple, cinnamon and fruit punch, which we now know is basically a citrus blend and having tried a fair amount of apples for this video, I would stick with the flavors. that precise order the sugar dominates the cardboard comes strong and then the cinnamon with soft fruity notes at the end, so here they are friends, Apple Jacks taste like sugar, cardboard, cinnamon, citrus punch, that is the official flavor of Apple Jacks, no wonder 90s ad campaigns didn't do it.

I don't want kids to talk about it, what we like is much catchier and still makes us talk about it to this day, but hey, that's just a theory, a food theory. Bon appetit, thanks for watching the loyal theorists. Be sure to subscribe to Don't miss future food theory episodes that will take us past the 2 million mark so we can hit that milestone before 2021. Now I know I've been putting a lot of effort into serialized themed episodes lately after do three of them in a month. I guess you could call me a serial cereal theorist, but in case you haven't seen them all, be sure to check back for the previous episode about green onion chex, it's a real thing from South Korea and if you're wondering why someone would do it.

If you want a cereal that tastes this disgusting, the answer is very simple democracy, so if any of that sounds intriguing to you, be sure to click the link on the screen to watch that video. By the way, that green onion series has such a Korean music video. and it's an absolute bop