We have tasted 28 brands of Grenola that you are likely to find on your local supermarket or online. To find the very good, we sampled each without knowing each. Our winner Tom’s perfect is 10 classic, but we also crown three runners-ups.
Like many of my colleagues, I am very serious about consumption of my granola. On the weekend, when I can be committed to making a completely homemade batch KanolaI look forward to inhaling in the form of its toasted, carmelized, nutritious aroma, as it digs in a fresh, still warm bowl. When I resolve rapidly through my granola stash, I can make it, however, I arrive for stores-bought stuff. The question is: Which granola is worth buying?
To find the very best store-Kharida Granola, our editors sampled 28 different brands, which you are likely to find on your local grocery store or online. We clung to honey, maple, and/or vanilla tasted granlas, and were marketed as original or classic. We allowed simple inclusion, such as nuts and dried fruits. We put each in the bowl, then sampled them in random order, without knowing which brand was. After crushing our path through 28 different granals, we tabid the results and crown a holistic winner, as well as three qualified contenders, which we would be happy with a breakfast or above a scoop of ice cream.
Criterion
The great granola should be crispy and hearty. It should contain pieces of cutting shapes that are pleasant crisp, but are not difficult or large to break your teeth. It should be toast well but should not be burnt or spicy. Although a touch of sweetness is welcome, it should not be cloying, and just to exclude it must have enough salt. Store-Kharida Grenola does not have to taste fresh baked, but it should not taste dust or stale.
Serious Eats / Amanda Suarez
Overall winner
Tom’s perfect 10 classic
This New York -Mad Grenola won entirely on our editors. “This is a real granola that I will eat,” our editorial director, DanielWrote after cutting in “a good fruit chunk”. GenevieveOur senior editor, loved the balanced taste of dried cherry and granola. Most of our editors agreed that this granola had the right amount of crunch and chewing. JessieOur Visual Editor, Grenola’s “Sticky-Eish” texture enjoyed and will suggest it to fans of dried prunes. I loved this granola very much-after the taste test of its chewed fruit groups and for salty-sweetness-after taste testing, I could claim someone else before the house.
Runner -up
- Michelle’s original Grenola
- Nature Valley Grenola
- Early bird farmhend choice Granola
- Jessica’s Vanilla-Mapal Granola
Although none of other granols were considered very tasty as our winner, our editors enjoyed some other brands, which they would be happy to disintegrate on themselves. Curd Too.
Everyone praised the texture Michelle’s original GrenolaGenevieve enjoyed its “properly shaped morsal” and “good crunch”. Jessie thought that it was “light to sweet, with a good amount of nuts.” Although some of our tasters thought that Grenola’s sweetness was one dimensional, he appreciated that it was not cloyly sweet. Daniel placed a solution in simple words: “This requires salt.” (You can also add a pinch of salt to your granola.)
KellyOur senior social editor, clock immediately Nature Valley Grenola Because it tasted the brand’s carbon copy of Oats An Honey Grenola Bar. Like Kelly, I was a great fan of those snacks in my middle school lunchbox and enjoyed this granola. Daniel appreciated Graham Craercar, such as the taste of Granola and he said he would eat a box or two happily. Nevertheless, some of our editors, including genevies, thought that the chunks were very large and liked a little loose texture.
Heels had a head for Daniel Early bird farmhend choice Granola“This textbook is good granola,” he wrote. “Almost perfect, crisp, not not saogi, not a huge cluster.” Our associate editorial director, MeganSimilarly, Geneviv appreciated his “satisfactory crisp” texture and preferred that “it would not break your teeth,” and especially loved to the beautifully toesy peckon. Some editors, including Jessie and I thought that this touch was very salty, but agreed that it would be well added with yogurt and fruit. AmandaOur Associate Visual Director, also enjoyed it, but wished, “It was the clumpy instead of individual pieces.”
Vanilla Maple Granola of Jessica A top scorer and the highest scoring was an entry with vanilla-surprise. Megan liked its “big chunks”, while Geneviv thought that the cluster could be crunchies. The taste divided our editors. Some enjoyed cinnamon and honey, while others found Vanilla and Maple notes artificially.
Serious Eats / Amanda Suarez
Contenders
- 365 Hole Foods Maple and Almond Butter Granola
- 365 perfect foods by oat and honey granola
- Arora Natural Nat and Honey Grenola
- Arora Natural Vanilla Crunch Granola
- Back Rhodes Organic Original Grenola
- Naked Vanilla Almond Cruckura Grenola Bear
- Said granola original
- Bob’s red mill honey oat granola
- Cascadian Farm Organic Grenola, Oats and Honey
- Early bird farmhend choice Granola
- Giant granola vanilla almonds
- Gather good and honey almond vanilla granola
- Grand Organics Honey Nat Grenola
- Honey Bunch of Oats Honey Roasted Grenola
- Vanilla Maple Granola of Jessica
- Kelly’s Char Plus Honey Maple Granola
- Dayalu oats and honey granola
- Michelle’s original Grenola
- Natural War Vegetarian Mool Kurkuri Granola
- Nature Valley Oats and Honey Protein Granola
- Honey almond granola path of nature
- Pumpkin seed of nature + sun granola
- Nature’s promise vanilla maple granola
- Purely Elizabeth original ancient grain granola
- Quker Oats Honey and Almond Grenola
- Shopperite Oats and Honey Grenola
- Tom’s perfect 10 classic granola
- True answer maple vanilla granola
Major takeaments and conclusions
All the granals we taste have oats as the main component and some coupled sweeteners; Many also had oil, nuts and/or seeds, and hot spices. Some granols contain preservatives such as tocoferols, a form of vitamin E is used to maintain freshness.
Most of the granlas we used sugar, brown sugar, maple syrup, or honey as a sweetener. In some granols, this sweetness came out well and was balanced with the appropriate amount of salt. Generally, our editors preferred granlas made of brown sugar, which gave a rich depth of Grenola caramel notes and taste. Our winner, Tom’s perfect 10 classic, Dark brown is sweet with a combination of sugar, maple syrup and honey.
Our testing system
All flavor tests are fully hidden and conducted with brands without discussion. In random order tasters taste taste samples. For example, Taster A may have a sample first a taste, while the first sample will taste six. This is to prevent the fatigue of the palate from giving benefits to one sample incorrectly. According to various criteria, tasters are asked to fill the tasting sheets, ranking samples. All data is tabulated, and the results are calculated with an editorial input without providing the most fair representation of real results.
