# Cereal for women only

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-for-women-only/48884>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 7, 2001, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-for-women-only/48884 "2001-01-07T19:23:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![diamud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@diamud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diamud)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-for-women-only/48884/1 "2001-01-07T19:23:45Z")

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My fiancee brought home some cereal last night, I can’t recall the name, but it was some kind of vanilla almond thing. It says right on the box it is formulated especially for women. Has anyone else seen this? When did breakfast cereal become gender-specific? (My fiancee argues that Wheaties is marketed towards men…that may be true, but it doesn’t state a gender on the box itself).

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**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-for-women-only/48884/2 "2001-01-07T19:32:22Z")

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Bizarre. Don’t eat any – your penis might fall off. Anyway, vanilla-almond cereal just sounds gross.

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**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-for-women-only/48884/3 "2001-01-07T20:03:28Z")

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Could it have been those new Kellogg’s Vanilla-Almond Estrogen Flakes?

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**Author:** ![Carina42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Carina42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carina42)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-for-women-only/48884/4 "2001-01-07T20:51:51Z")

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Dumb marketing ploy, is my guess.

It’s probably got soy (a phytoestrogen) or calcium in it or something.

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**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-for-women-only/48884/5 "2001-01-07T20:57:13Z")

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Dang- on the tip of my tongue- Harmony? Yeah, I think that’s it.

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**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-for-women-only/48884/6 "2001-01-07T21:18:26Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Carina42 \*  
> \*\*Dumb marketing ploy, is my guess.  
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I concur. “I am woman, eat my cereal!” :rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![lucie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed8c4c/32.png) [@lucie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucie)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2001, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cereal-for-women-only/48884/7 "2001-01-07T21:23:53Z")

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Actually, if they are the ones I think they are, the differnt cereals have some herbal extracts in them - ginseng and saw palmetto for men, and I can’t remember what for women. IIRC, the amounts of the herb are so small that it is really not much more than a marketing ploy aimed at people who have heard of a particular profile herb and figure this is a good way to get some. Sort of like getting your viatmins from Wonderbread.