Pebbles (cereal)

Pebbles
Fruity Pebbles cereal with milk (Sweetened Rice Cereal, Natural and Artificial Fruit Flavor)
Product typeBreakfast cereal
OwnerPost Holdings
Produced byPost Consumer Brands
CountryUnited States
IntroducedOctober 1971; 53 years ago (1971-10)
Websitepebblescereal.com

Pebbles is a brand of breakfast cereal introduced in the United States by Post Consumer Brands on October 20, 1971[1][2] featuring characters from the animated series The Flintstones as spokestoons. The product line includes Cocoa Pebbles and Fruity Pebbles.

Cocoa Pebbles contains chocolate-flavored crisp rice cereal bits, while Fruity Pebbles contains crisp rice cereal bits that come in a variety of fruit flavors with a sugar content of 9 grams per serving for Fruity Pebbles and 10 grams per serving for Cocoa Pebbles.[3][4] It is the oldest cereal brand based on characters from a TV series or movie that is still sold.[5]

  1. ^ "Post Heritage". Archived from the original on 2012-01-05. Retrieved 2009-08-26.
  2. ^ However, both brands were advertised in selected markets as early as 1970, see The Daily Inter Lake (Kalispell, Montana), May 20, 1970, p. 15; Santa Cruz (CA) Sentinel, June 3, 1970, p. 22
  3. ^ "Fruity Pebbles Nutrition | Post Foods". Archived from the original on 2014-02-12. Retrieved 2014-02-06.
  4. ^ "Cocoa Pebbles Nutrition | Post Foods". Archived from the original on 2014-02-01. Retrieved 2014-02-06.
  5. ^ Anderson, Heather A. (2013). Breakfast: A History. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 181. ISBN 9780759121652. Retrieved 30 July 2016.