Weetos
Weetos is a brand of chocolate-flavoured breakfast cereal produced by Weetabix Food Company. The name comes from the fact that its primary ingredient is wheat and the cereal pieces are in O shapes, the same naming convention that is used on the company's flagship cereal Weetabix.
The brand initially began with the Weetos cereal, officially known as Weetos Chocolate Flavour, and has expanded to include Weetos Meteors, Weetos Bars, and Weetos vs. Alien Invaders.
History
Weetos has been marketed primarily toward children and younger consumers by the Weetabix Food Company and, as a result, has a long history with mascots. The original mascot, introduced in 1987, was a skateboarder named Derek, who "found life really boring, until new Weetos came out of the blue!", delivered in a broad West Midlands accent. From 1992, the breakfast mascot was Professor Weeto, an elderly gentleman dressed in a white labcoat, whose remaining hair was white and who wore a pair of spectacles constructed from two large Weetos pieces. He was the mascot that acted as the creator and sole advertiser for the cereal. In 2010, he was replaced by The Weeto, a strong Weeto with arms and legs who'd do anything to get into the cereal for children.In 2006, Weetabix Food Company lowered the amount of sugar present in Weetos by over 35% as part of a drive to appeal to health conscious parents, which resulted in a change of flavour. This was coupled with the dropping of long-running mascot Professor Weeto in favour of neutral images of children participating in various sports.
Products
Weetos Chocolate Flavour
Weetos is packaged in a brown rectangular cardboard box with the logo and an advert of whatever toy is inside.Ingredients include wholegrain wheat, wheat flour, sugars, cocoa powder, vegetable oil, milk powder and various vitamins and minerals.