Compared: Life Chocolate and Wheat Chex

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This is Life® Chocolate by Quaker Oats.

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I just finished my first-ever bowl of Chocolate Life cereal. It was at the grocery store where I was facing a BOGO for Life Cereals but hesitated because I don’t like buying two boxes of the same type of cereal, when I’m the only cereal eater in my house, and when Life Original and Life Cinnamon taste too much the same.

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Why Buy Woven Squares for Breakfast

Spotting Life Chocolate tucked up top-shelf, brought two boxes of Life in one plastic bag by a cashier with light skin and a bagger with dark skin. Thank you both kindly, for the light color Life Original and the dark color Life Chocolate.

Life Chocolate gets 4-stars compared to Wheat Chex 5-stars when flavor and nutrition are the only criterion, excluding price.

I buy cereal that’s on sale, and ain’t got time to write about cereal in my home and use my iPhone calculator in the store to save under $3.00.

An unfamiliar memory of taste conjured from taste buds to head, the first bite of Life Chocolate. “I know this flavor” - my taste buds tried but failed to recall - “where’d I taste this before?!”

“No, not Raisin Bran…” - I finished the entire bowl and walked around some circles inside my house. The milk and chocolate mingled soggy in my stomach before I finally figured - “Hot damn! Life Chocolate tastes the same as Wheat Chex! That’s the ticket.”

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Wheat Chex

Life Chocolate

Chex Wheat

Chocolate Life

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Life Chocolate in My Mouth, Wheat Chex on My Mind

Life Chocolate, a new cereal to me, might be a mildly more sugared up sweetened taste compared to Wheat Chex.

Every time there’s a sale on Wheat Chex, I buy up to four boxes. It’s healthy. It’s made of wheat. It sits well on my stomach and helps me poop healthy. It comes in a small box that’s heavy weight dense packed with whole wheat nutrition like a brick munchable wovens.

I buy “Wheat Woven Squares”, the generic version of Wheat Chex whenever I can. But this time, only the name brand Life Chocolate was on the shelf on sale.

That’s it for taste.

Onto nutrition.

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Nutritional Value in Dark Woven Squares

It triggered my consumer advocate spidey sense when I compared nutrition labels to find - Whole grain wheat is Wheat Chex’s main ingredient, where Life Chocolate blends whole grain oat flour, corn flour, and whole wheat flour.

My bias is, simpler ingredients (Wheat Chex) are superior to mixed blend ingredients (Life Chocolate). I know boxed cereal ain’t exactly farm-to-table fare, but probably, the nutrients make a difference in your health. You are what you eat.

Theoretically, Wheat Chex’s whole grain wheat should deliver a superior source of fiber in high dietary style, and Life Chocolate’s variety flours should deliver a broader range of good stuff in smaller doses. But when you compare the vitamin contents of the cereals, Wheat Checks offers the better variety, a variety I thought powdering oats, corn, and whole wheat together would achieve in Life Chocolate. But, on the side of the box for my eyes to see, that’s just not the case.

Take a look for yourself:

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Down to it, this is how Life Chocolate and Wheat Chex compare nutrition-wise:

1. Both cereals are low in fat and cholesterol free, for a double-healthy choice breakfast.
2. Wheat Chex, good for heart and stomach, has significantly more dietary fiber than Life Chocolate.
3. Sugar is the second-most prevalent ingredient of both.
4. Life Chocolate, with a chocolaty taste,  has more sugar, while Wheat Chex, with a wheaty taste, has more sodium.
5. In terms of vitamins, Wheat Chex offers more variety, but Life Chocolate offers more potency of the fewer vitamins it does offer.

I recommend consumers choose Wheat Chex over Life Chocolate, unless the sale at your local grocery makes one of them way cheaper than the other.

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