Why was Honey Smacks discontinued?

It could be contaminated with salmonella and make people sick. The Kellogg Company recalled Honey Smacks cereal on June 14, 2018. If you see Kellogg's Honey Smacks cereal for sale, do not buy it. The FDA has become aware that recalled Kellogg's Honey Smacks cereal is still being offered for sale.
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Why did they stop making Honey Smacks?

Honey Smacks was recalled in 2018 due to salmonella

In July, the CDC issued an updated recall following 100 cases of food poisoning across 33 different states — and 30 linked hospitalizations — instructing consumers that any and all Honey Smacks should be discarded or returned to stores.
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Do they make Honey Smacks anymore?

After the June 2018 recall of Smacks due to salmonella, Kellogg's changed the recipe. In November 2018 when Smacks returned to grocery store shelves, it contained a “simpler, updated recipe, while still delivering deliciously sweetened, honey-flavored puffed wheat cereal” according to Kellogg's.
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Do they make Sugar Smacks anymore?

Sugar Smacks was Kellogg's response to the success of Post's Sugar Crisp Cereal. This cereal (or a recipe close to it) is currently available as Honey Smacks.
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How did Honey Smacks get salmonella?

manufactured the Kellogg's Honey Smacks traced to a Salmonella Mbandaka outbreak that sickened people across 36 states. Documents show the manufacturer knew its plant and cereal produced there were contaminated with Salmonella before the outbreak.
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Honey Smacks Returns To Shelves With New Recipe After Recall



Are Honey Smacks healthy?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is telling people not to eat Kellogg's Honey Smacks cereal, which has been linked to an outbreak of salmonella infections now numbering at least 100 people in 33 states. "Do not eat this cereal," the agency declared on Twitter.
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What is the best cereal of all time?

Here's A Ranking Of The Top Breakfast Cereals Of All Time
  • Life. Life. ...
  • Rice Krispies. Rice Krispies. ...
  • Cap'n Crunch. Cap'n Crunch. ...
  • Frosted Mini Wheats. Frosted Mini Wheats. ...
  • Lucky Charms. Lucky Charms. ...
  • Frosted Flakes. Frosted Flakes. ...
  • Froot Loops. Froot Loops. ...
  • Raisin Bran. Raisin Bran.
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What cereal is similar to Honey Smacks?

Honey Smacks (formerly known as Sugar Smacks, simply known as Smacks outside the U.S. in international markets) is a sweetened puffed wheat breakfast cereal made by Kellogg's, noted for its high sugar content. It was introduced in the early 1950s. In Britain, a similar cereal is Honey Monster Puffs.
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Does Honey Smacks make urine smell?

If you've ever had a bowl of Sugar Puffs (Now Honey Monster Puffs) then you probably know what the Sugar Puffs Pee is. For those who haven't experienced it, it's the strange phenomenon of eating a bowl of Sugar Puffs, and your subsequent wee will have a potent odour that matches the cereal almost exactly.
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What's the difference between Golden Crisp and Honey Smacks?

The cereal is lighter in color and sturdier in constitution than Golden Crisp. One bite and my decision was made; Smacks is utterly awesome. Yes, it is extremely sweet, but it finishes out with a toasty flavor that evokes the feeling of a classic sweet cereal.
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What cereal has the most sugar?

What's the sugariest cereal of them all? According to the Environmental Working Group, it's Kellogg's Honey Smacks. The cereal is described as "sweetened puffed wheat cereal," which doesn't quite let on to the fact that 55.6 percent of the stuff is sugar.
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What cereal has the frog?

The Dig'em Frog was introduced in 1972 as the official spokesfrog for Honey Smacks. He was described as “a little frog with a big voice.” Breakfast starts with Honey Smacks and the raspy, rich ribbits from the Dig'em Frog about the cereal's great taste.
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What did Golden Crisp used to be called?

In 1967, the name was changed to "Super Sugar Crisp", and in 1985, it was changed again to "Super Golden Crisp". Finally, it was changed to "Golden Crisp" (during a time when many cereals dropped the word "Sugar" from their names) in the American market.
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When did golden puffs come out?

It was introduced in 1949 as Sugar Crisp.
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Is Golden Crisp still made?

Though many adults remember this sweet puffed rice cereal from their childhood as Sugar Crisp, these days it's actually being marketed as Golden Crisp in the United States, though it's still called Sugar Crisp in Canada.
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Why does my pee smell like fish?

Trimethylaminuria, better known as fish odor syndrome, is a rare disorder that causes a person's bodily emissions to smell like fish. The odor can arise from the saliva, sweat, or urine. A person develops this condition when they are not able to break down TMA.
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Why does my pee smell like honeycomb?

A person with uncontrolled diabetes may have blood glucose levels that are dangerously high. The body tries to get rid of the extra glucose in the urine, and this can cause a sweet smell. People with sweet-smelling urine due to diabetes may notice other symptoms, including: exhaustion.
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Why does my pee smell like Coco Pops?

Diabetes

Advanced diabetes can sometimes cause strong, sweet-smelling urine. This is due to the sugar and ketones that have accumulated in your urine. Although this can occur in people who have already been diagnosed with diabetes, it usually affects people who haven't previously been diagnosed.
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What is the most popular cereal 2021?

Post's® Top 5 Most Popular Cereals in 2021:
  • Honey Bunches of Oats® with Almonds cereal. ...
  • Fruity PEBBLES™ cereal. ...
  • Honey Bunches of Oats® Honey Roasted cereal. ...
  • Cocoa PEBBLES™ cereal. ...
  • Malt-O-Meal® Fruity Dyno-Bites® cereal.
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What is the number one cereal in America?

1. Cheerios. America's favorite cereal by both revenue and boxes sold is Cheerios.
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Do they still make Fruity Pebbles?

After many iterations, the Cocoa Pebbles formula was set and has remained largely unchanged over the years. Fruity Pebbles also remained essentially unchanged for decades. In recent years some additions and variations have been made to the Fruity Pebbles product formulation.
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What is the oldest cereal?

The First Breakfast Cereal, Granula, Had to Be Soaked Before Being Eaten
  • Granula wasn't much like the cereal we eat today.
  • The first manufactured breakfast cereal, it was developed in 1863 by a doctor and health reformer named James Caleb Jackson.
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What was the first dry cereal?

In 1863, James Caleb Jackson, a religiously conservative vegetarian who ran a medical sanitarium in western New York, created a breakfast cereal from graham flour dough that was dried and broken into shapes so hard they needed to be soaked in milk overnight. He called it granula.
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What goes first cereal or milk?

Here's their case: According to viral debates, milk goes in first before cereal is added in small amounts that keeps it from getting soggy and keeps the milk fresh. A poll shows most are cereal first, but milk first people are not alone, even without numbers on their side.
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