Captain Crunch or Cap’n Crunch is a corn and oats cereal manufacturer and a breakfast connoisseur introduced in 1963. Cap’n crunch is manufactured by the Quaker Oats Company, based in the United States and a subsidiary of PepsiCo since 2001. In this article we shall read about Captain crunch donut cereal discontinued.
Cap’n Crunch product line has a huge variety of flavored cereal options and sprinkled donut cereal was one of their best-sellers which was discontinued and replaced by the choco donut cereal. Cap’n Crunch is about to sail into retirement because of the high sugar content (about 12 g per serving) and Quaker Oats has stopped actively advertising the cereal.
Cap’n Crunch Cereal Ingredients
Cap’n Crunch cereals are made from Corn Flour, Sugar, Oat Flour, Brown Sugar, Palm and/or Coconut Oil, Salt, Reduced Iron, Yellow 5, Niacinamide, Yellow 6, BHT (to preserve freshness), Thiamin Mononitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Riboflavin, and Folic Acid. They add artificial flavors and different shapes to the cereals to provide more options.
Cap’n Crunch Cereal Making Process
- Oats flour and cornflour are mixed with all the dry ingredients and then liquid ingredients are added to the mix and transferred to a larger mixer.
- A dough is produced which is then pushed through a hole to form long tubes of the dough. These tubes are steamed to give them the required texture.
- These steamed dough tubes are then cut into pieces of various shapes and sizes depending on the variety of the cereal being produced.
- The cut pieces pass through a conveyor belt where a coating of sweet sugar syrup is drizzled all over.
- These sugar-coated pieces are then baked in huge ovens and given the perfect crunch loved by all.
- The baked pieces are then moved and dropped on a scale that fills each box with the right quantity.
Cap’n Crunch Flavors
Crunch Berry, a strawberry-flavored cereal, was the first flavor introduced by Cap’n Crunch after their brown sugar and butter rice flavor. Next came the peanut butter flavor, choco donuts, and cinnamon roll crunch, all of which were a big hit. In 2019 Cap’n Crunch introduced a patriotic white, red, and blue crunch resembling the colors of the American flag and cotton candy crunch.
Cap’n Crunch Varieties
Cap’n Crunch cereals feature in five varieties – Original, Crunch Berries, Peanut Butter Crunch, Oops! All Berries, and Cotton Candy Crunch.
Cap’n Crunch Flavored Beer
In 2017, Massachusetts’s Somerville Brewing Company united with Cap’n Crunch to introduce a beer called Saturday Morning, a Belgian-style ale infused with Cap’n Crunch’s Crunch Berries. Brewmaster of Sommerville, Jeff Leiter describes Saturday Morning’s taste as having a Belgian beer, its smoothness with fruity flavor from the cereal. After this, Wardland Brewing introduced a Golden ale style beer called Cap’n Crunch Ale and Kuhnhenn Brewing Company introduced a Brown ale American called Cap’n Crunch Peanut Butter Crunch ale.
Cap’n Crunch Sinking Sail
Cap’n Crunch cereal, once a big hit among children and adults in the 80s & 90s, is losing its popularity day by day. With the American citizens becoming more health-conscious, fewer of them opt for Cap’n Crunch sugar-loaded cereals for breakfast. Rightly so because every serving of these cereals has 12-13 g of sugar which is not good for, especially children’s health. Quaker Oats has stopped advertising Cap’n Crunch actively after health experts linked sugar-loaded snacks as the primary reason for child obesity increasing in the U.S.
Conclusion
Cap’n Crunch which was once one of the most popular breakfast cereal options in the United States is now difficult to find even in stores. Due to unhealthy nutritional contents, particularly high sugar content, this cereal is losing its grip day by day. Fair to say, health comes first, and all the food manufacturing companies have to bear that in mind before manufacturing any food product. People are becoming more and more health-conscious especially post-pandemic and look for good nutritional content in their daily food intake. Quaker Oats may revise their ingredients and nutritional content to save Cap’n Crunch cereal from becoming obsolete.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What was the original Cap’n Crunch slogan used in animated television commercials?
The original slogan from Cap’n Crunch animated television commercials was “It’s got corn for crunch, oats for punch, and it stays crunchy, even in milk”.
- How many flavors of Cap’n crunch are available?
Cap’n Crunch cereals are available in 25 different flavors.
- What was the first flavor of Cap’n Crunch cereal?
The first flavor when Cap’n Crunch cereal was introduced in the market was brown sugar and butter over rice.
- What is the name of Cap’n Crunch’s ship?
Cap’n Crunch’s ship’s name is the S.S. Guppy and his full name is Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch.
- Does Cap’n Crunch have a gluten-free variety of cereal?
Cap’n Crunch cereals do not contain wheat, rye, or barley so they may be considered gluten-free but the company does not verify its compliance as per the FDA.
