I tried Calbee ``Frugra Black Thunder Flavor'' where that Black Thunder was combined with breakfast cereal and got a lightning-like crunchy feeling.

``Frugra Black Thunder Flavor'', the first collaboration between Yuraku Seika's chocolate confectionery ``Black Thunder'' and Calbee's cereal ``Frugra '', was released on November 6, 2023. I actually tried the Frugra Black Thunder flavor, which was created after a year of trial and error in development in order to reproduce Black Thunder's ``lightning-like crunchiness'' with Frugra.

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The Black Thunder logo is drawn on it. If you look at the photo of the package, you can see that the granola has a dark brown color that clearly resembles chocolate.

In addition to the usual Frugra ingredients such as oats, rye, strawberries, and raspberries, it also includes Black Thunder Cocoa Cookies and Black Thunder Plain Biscuits.

Calories are 225kcal per 50g serving, and 363kcal per serving with 200ml of milk.

The raw material looks like this.

I put out 50g per serving on a plate. As you can see in the package photo, the overall color is black.

Black cocoa cookies are mixed in with ingredients familiar to Frugra, such as oats and strawberries.

I immediately poured milk into it.

Before I ate it, I was vaguely imagining the crunchy texture of Black Thunder because it had a 'lightning-like crunchy texture,' but when I actually ate it, it added the crunchy texture of cocoa cookies and plain biscuits. It feels like a full-grained fruit with a more chewy texture. The flavor is more of a cocoa cookie flavor than chocolate, and it doesn't have the smooth sweetness of Black Thunder chocolate, but the addition of the bitterness and aroma of cocoa cookies brings out the sweet and sour taste of the strawberries and raspberries contained in Frugra. I got a distinct impression.

This time I tried it with yogurt. The aroma and subtle sweetness of the cocoa cookies are enhanced by the sourness of the yogurt, so it may feel more like eating it as a dessert than when you pour milk over it. Frugra Black Thunder Flavor is a menu created in collaboration with Black Thunder, but it is not just an ``insanely sweet snack'', but a ``breakfast cereal with an increased cocoa flavor and crunchiness''.

Frugra Black Thunder flavor will be available nationwide from November 6, 2023. You can also order it on Amazon.co.jp, and at the time of writing, you can purchase 6 bags of 600g for 5087 yen including tax.

Amazon.co.jp: Calbee Frugra Black Thunder Flavor 600g x 6 bags: Food/Beverage/Alcohol

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