Even with the additional 3 grams of sugar to sweeten this new version, it's still moderately low in sugar, or low enough for me to be able to recommend it.

Carolyn: Kix may look and crunch like Trix and Cocoa Puffs but has always been nutritionally lots better. From day one in the late 1930s, Kix was infused with vitamins. In fact, the copycat product that Quaker introduced to combat Kix was called Vitamin Rain, according to the wonderful book (with almost as horrible a name) "Cerealizing America."

I don't know if it was because of its name, but Vitamin Rain is long gone and Kix is still kicking both in the original form and this new Honey version. While the level of sugar in it is nowhere near the level in Trix, the extra sugar in Honey Kix does obscure the puffs' great corn taste. Trying it doesn't make me want to buy the new Kix so much as to reacquaint myself with the simply delicious, nutritionally prescient old one.

Tyson Any'tizers Stuffed Chicken Minis. Cordon Bleu, and Pepperoni. $3.49 to $3.69 per 10-ounce box.

Bonnie: Tyson just added some new stuffed, breaded chicken breast meat minis to its Any'tizer line of chicken snacks: one filled with ham, processed Swiss cheese, and a white sauce; the other with pepperoni and sauce. They may be minis in size but not in nutritional impact. Three of either variety serves up 180 to 200 calories, 10 to 11 grams of total fat (of which 3 to 4 are saturated), and a hefty 13 to 15 grams of protein. As such, they're best served to growing, active boys with bottomless appetites.

Carolyn: The stuffed chicken nuggets have always been the best part of the frozen Any'tizer chicken appetizer line. That's because Tyson uses better-quality chicken meat than its competitors in the freezer case (i.e., Banquet) or down the street (McDonald's). These new flavors are also more upscale and interesting than Tyson's other Minis (Cheddar and Bacon, and Cheddar and Jalapeno).

In fact, these new Pepperoni and Cordon Bleu Minis are like wedding banquet stuffed chicken in everyday portable, poppable form.

Bonnie Tandy Leblang is a registered dietitian and professional speaker. She has an interactive site (www.biteofthebest.com) about products she recommends. Carolyn Wyman is a junk-food fanatic and author of "Better Than Homemade: Amazing Foods That Changed the Way We Eat" (Quirk). Each week they critique three new food items.

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