Honey Nut Cheerios
It's from 1979, before you were born.
- Maker
- General Mills
- Type
- Honey-sweetened oat cereal
- Debuted
- 1979
- Note
- mascot BuzzBee
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About
As of 2026, it's 47 years old.
Honey Nut Cheerios took the plain, responsible Cheerio, coated it in honey, and quietly became more popular than its wholesome parent — the cereal equivalent of the fun sibling who also has their life together. It's sweet enough to enjoy but virtuous enough to feel fine about.
Introduced in 1979 and fronted by BuzzBee the honeybee, it's one of the best-selling cereals in the entire country, the diplomatic compromise between 'sugar bomb' and 'cardboard.'
Lightly sweet and endlessly snackable, Honey Nut Cheerios is the cereal that figured out exactly how much joy you can add before guilt kicks in.
Honey Nut Cheerios through the years
Introduced
A honey-sweetened spin on the classic Cheerios O.
A best-selling cereal
BuzzBee the bee fronts one of America's top sellers.
