Maybe it’s just that a pandemic which quickly caused hoarding and shortage of toilet paper it would eventually lead to the disappearance of store shelves from one of the most fiber-known cereals in the United States.
Post Holdings confirms to CBS MoneyWatch that it currently cannot keep up with the rising appetite of the country for its grape cereals. The food company based in Sant Lluís also offered guarantees that it would not carry out the 120-year-old brand, as some have speculated. social media in the middle of grocery store shelves showing no box of nuts. Grape-Nuts should be back on store shelves in the spring, Friday Post Holdings promised.
“People may continue to see shortages and temporary depletions of Grape-Nuts as we continue to work through supply constraints and increased grain demand amid the pandemic,” Kristin DeRock, manager of the CBS, said in an email to CBS Grape-Nuts brand. MoneyWatch. “First of all, we want to make sure Grape-Nuts fans know that we have absolutely no plans to suspend Grape-Nuts cereals.”
With more Americans eating at home, their grape consumption also increased and making more whole-grain, crispy-grain wheat cereal is more complicated than one might think, according to its maker.
“Grape-Nuts is manufactured with its own technology and a production process that is not easily replicated, which has made it more difficult to change production to meet demand during this time,” DeRock said in his email.
First introduced in 1897, the sudden lack of availability of Grape-Nuts caused a round of effort among its fans on social media and the bewilderment on the part of others that this product exists.
The Grape-Nuts website usefully states that Grape-Nuts “doesn’t actually contain any grapes or nuts.” The name may come from the resemblance of the cereal to the grape seeds, or from its nutty flavor and distinctive crunch, the place suggests. Its main ingredient is whole wheat flour which contains seven grams of potent fiber per half cup serving. There’s no sugar or corn syrup – just malted barley flour, salt and dry yeast that fill the rest of a box’s ingredient list.
Grape-Nuts joins a list of products that have experienced much greater demand during the pandemic, as Clorox towels are not expected to be available available for months and a thirst for normalcy that causes a career holiday trees, among other things.