Vegan Cereal Brands (40+ Cereals That Will Change Your Morning)

Are you looking for a list of vegan cereal options? Or perhaps you’ve got questions about whether your favorite brands contain animal products?

You’ve come to the right place.

This guide contains:

• A comprehensive veg-friendly cereal list sorted by type.
• The vegan status of some of the most popular brands.
• Most common non-vegan ingredients to look for when you’re shopping.

But before you get started, I wanted to make you aware of something:

Many people who try to go vegan fail and go back to eating animal products.

That’s why you must do it in a sustainable and health-promoting way.

If you don’t think you are going vegan completely figured out yet, I highly recommend checking out the Complete Vegan Starter kit today.

How We Made This Vegan Cereals List

We classified these cereals as vegan if they didn’t contain any common animal products found in breakfast items.

The two most common ingredients that we kept an eye out for were gelatin and honey. If the products didn’t have those or other labeled animal products (meat, dairy, eggs, fish, etc.), they could have made it to the list.

We didn’t consider any trace ingredients (such as vitamin fortifications) because we don’t think vegans should stress about such things.

Especially new vegans.

Many top-level vegan organizations agree with this assessment.

But if you are concerned about extremely small unlabeled animal products, you can choose to avoid Vitamin D3 fortification in these products because it can come from lanolin (although there are plant-based sources like lichen). Read the label on your product and see if it has any vitamin fortifications. If you want to avoid D3 because of the possibility of it being animal-derived, it’s your choice.

Additionally, we didn’t consider if any added sugar in these products could have been processed with bone char because it would be near impossible to tell.

However, we did include an asterisk (*) next to all organic products on this list. Organic cane sugar is never processed with bone char.

Vegan Cereals made with whole foods and no added sugar are the best options.

If you’re vegan for animal welfare, then stressing about either of these things (vitamin fortification or sugar) is going to be counterproductive.

If you’re vegan for strictly health reasons – you’re probably going to want to choose one of the single-ingredient products anyway.

Please Note: Not everything on this list is particularly health-promoting. Not that this would come as a surprise to many, but we just wanted to do a little disclaimer. We like to endorse a whole-foods plant-based diet for human health.

As a final note: all ingredient statements have the possibility of changing over time. Please double-check the box before purchasing it.​

List of Vegan Cereals By Type

Below we’ve categorized these items by their most common properties so you can find what you’re looking for.

If it has an asterisks (*) next to it, that means its organic – so you don’t have to worry about potential non-vegan trace ingredients, although we encourage people not to worry about it anyway.

Single Ingredient Cereals

The main brand that we could find that makes single-ingredient options is Arrowhead Mills. This brand puffs all sorts of grains, including some ancient ones, resulting in some really delicious, satisfying, and nutrient-dense options.

• Arrowhead Mills Puffed Rice Vegan Cereal
  • If you ever had regular Rice Crispies, then you’ve had a puffed rice cereal. Eat them plain with some almond milk, or you can even make vegan rice crispy treats with some vegan marshmallows.
• Arrowhead Mills Organic Puffed Kamut
  • Kamut is a nutrient dense ancient grain. When puffed, it eats similarly to any other puffed grain with the addition of an earthier flavor.

• Arrowhead Mills Puffed Corn
  • ​This single ingredient cereal is tasting to the traditional Corn Pops, but not loaded with added sugar. As a corn product, it’s also gluten-free.

• Arrowhead Mills Puffed Wheat
  • Although wheat generally gets a bad rap, its actually quite nutrient dense when eaten in its whole form. This puffed wheat plant-based cereal has a fair amount of micronutrients and 2 grams of fiber per 60 calories.

• Arrowhead Mills Puffed Brown Rice Vegan Cereal
  • This is just like the regular puffed rice cereal ​except made with brown rice.

• Arrowhead Mills Puffed Millet Vegan Cereal
  • ​Millet is another type of ancient grain that makes a delicious puffed cereal. It’s a low-fat and high protein food that’s been enjoyed since 4000 BC

Healthy Cereal Options

While the single ingredient options also fall into the more healthy category, they can be boring. We made this second list of healthy products to show some less-bland but still nutrient-dense options that you can enjoy right out of the box.

• *Ezekial Golden Flax Seed Sprouted Grain Cereal
  • Despite having no added sugar, this cereal is absolutely delicious. All of the different sprouted grains give this Ezekiel product a deep taste and crunch that we think is unmatched in the healthy cereal world.
• Uncle Sam’s Whole Wheat Berries and Flax Seeds
  • Although we love all of the Ezekiel, we’ve found that they may be quite expensive depending on where you shop. Uncle Sam’s cereal is an alternative option that’s made with whole plant food ingredients and no added sugar.

• Familia Swiss Muesli Cereal
  • Muesli, which sort of translates to “mash-up” is a breakfast food dating back to the early 1900s. It’s a fancy word for something that’s not all that unusual, a bunch of rolled oats and grains made into cereal, typically with very little added sugar.

• *Q’ia Buckwheat Hemp Cranberry Vanilla
  • Q’ia makes a selection of superfoods that are based around whole grains, seeds, and nuts. 

Popular Puffed Cereal Options

These puffed picks are known for their crispy properties. The perfect example of a crispy cereal is none other than Rice Krispies.​

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• Kashi 7 Whole Grain Puffs Cereal
  • This cereal by Kashi actually contains seven whole grains and isn’t sweetened at all.

• **Envirokids Organic Peanut Butter Panda Puffs
  • Think of this as the organic hybrid between Reese’s Puffs and Kix.

• **Envirokids Organic Chocolate Koala Crisps
  • In a nutshell, this cereal is chocolate Rice Krispies.

• **Barbaras Organic Brown Rice Cereal
  • If you’ve ever had the Whole Foods Brown Rice Crisps, they are quite similar to these.

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Any form of store-bought generic puffed rice options likely has the same type of ingredients, so those are probably a safe bet as well!

O-Shaped Cereals

There’s something about O-shaped cereals that everyone loves. It could be because of Cheerio-nostalgia or because they are the perfect shape to get a balance of nut milk and cereal in one bite.

There are plenty of options for vegans, and this list is just the most popular ones we found online.

• Classic Cheerios
  • Classic Cheerios are a simple low sugar cereal made from oats. It’s mainly whole grain oats and fortified vitamins.
• Apple Jacks
  • Apple Jacks are vegan, although they have a lot of ingredients which you probably wouldn’t want such as hydrogenated oils. No animal products, though!
•  Apple Cinnamon Cheerios
  • Sweetened Cheerios with apple cinnamon flavoring. We actually prefer taking some normal cheerios and adding some diced apples on top!
• Chocolate Cheerios
  • Chocolate Cheerios have corn O’s as well as the traditional oat flour O’s. They’re chocolaty, sweet, and feel more of like a dessert cereal than anything else.
• Ancient Grains Cheerios
  • This vegan cereal is Cheerios made out of ancient grains. The other grains included are quinoa, rice, oats, and spelt.
• Multigrain Cheerios
  • With 5 different types of grains, Multigrain Cheerios are made by the same company as regular Cheerios (General Mills).
• **Nature’s Path Whole O’s
  • Nature’s Path Whole O’s are made with brown rice flour and corn flour as the base
• **Cascadian Purely O’s
  • Cascadian Farm Organic Purely O’s are a bit different than many O cereals as it isn’t made solely with rolled oats or oat flour.
• **Barbara’s Honest O’s
  • Barbara’s Honest O’s are an organic version of Cheerio’s which are lightly sweetened with apple juice concentrate.
• **Cascadian Farms Fruitful O’s
  • If you’ve ever had Fruit Loops, this is a similar cereal without any artificial colors.

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Corn Based Cereals

Corn-based cereals have a certain crunch and earthiness that stand out from the typical wheat or rice-based options.​

• Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes
  • Certainly not a healthy cereal, but there are no blatantly added animal products.
• Kellogg’s Corn Flakes
  • Believe it or not, the original Dr. Kellogg was actually an advocate for vegetarianism. Regardless of what the company does today, it’s still quite an interesting story. While not as sweet as the frosted flakes, the original Corn Fakes still have some added sugar. No blatant animal products, though.

• Kix Breakfast Cereal
  • Kix is perhaps one of the most classic breakfast cereals on the market. It was put on the market in 1937 and has been popular ever since. It’s basically puffed corn with some added sugar, but has a fond place in many of our hearts.

• Corn Chex
  • While this isn’t an organic cereal, it doesn’t contain any blatantly labeled animal products.

• **Envirokids Gorilla Munch
  • This cereal is kind of like an organic version of Kix corn puffs.

• **Back to Roots Organic Corn Flakes
  • These aren’t just your regular corn flakes. While they’re only made with three ingredients, none of which are artificial colors, this cereal is purple! That’s because it’s made with purple corn.

• **Lightly Frosted Amazon Flakes
  •  Made with organic cane sugar, you can be certain that these Frosted Flakes alternatives are vegan.

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Super Sweet and Indulgent

Don’t worry, breakfast junkies, we’ve got your back. We’ve made this list for those super-indulgent options. The ones that you probably have fond childhood memories of.

• Reese’s Peanut Butter Puffs
  • Unlike Reeses’s Peanut Butter Cups which have dairy, this cereal actually doesn’t have any animal products in it. They do have real peanuts, so if you’re allergic you may want to stay away.
• Trix Cereal
  • Trix are kind of like fruit loops, except they’re corn puffs like Kix and believe it or not they’re vegan.

• Cookie Crisp
  • It’s interesting. Finding vegan chocolate chip cookies can be kind of difficult, but Cookie Crisp cereal seems to be accidentally cruelty-free.

• Peanut Butter Cap N Crunch
  • Perhaps one of the most famous accidentally vegan cereals is Peanut Butter Cap’n Crunch. These corn balls flavored with peanut butter obviously aren’t health-promoting, but they bring a nostalgic peanut crunch for anyone who grew up in the 90’s.

• Golden Grahams
  • In all honestly, Golden Grahams were a staple in our household growing up. This cereal actually used to contain real honey. It was only until we happen to come by a box in the supermarket and had a look at the back that we realized it was taken out.
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