Not featuring Toucan Sam, these Froot Loops, as covered by Cosmopolitan, ran for a limited time with - guess what - a unicorn gracing the box art. However, Froot Loops did have a limited time comeback with Unicorn Froot Loops.

Perhaps the product was not as addictive when made in this manner, as The Fact Site claims that Kellogg's withdrew Froot Loops from the UK in 2015 due to lack of demand. Other changes in the formula gave the British Froot Loops a coarse texture, larger size, and slightly different taste. Kellogg's failed to find natural substitutes for the red, yellow, and blue loops. These Loops, as Ark's Ark wrote, were colored with carrots, blackcurrants, and spinach and nettles. This was because at the time, products had to use natural additives and flavoring. The most striking change listed by The Fact Site is that Froot Loops in the UK only consisted of orange, purple, and green loops. In 2020, he underwent a redesign, making him, in Creative Bloq's words, 'into something entirely unrecognisable and, quite frankly, terrifying.' In a short showcasing the new design on YouTube, Toucan Sam is flattened from a 3D anthropomorphic toucan into something reminiscent of Cartoon Network's 'The Amazing World of Gumball,' swapping his former beak (with three bands to represent the original flavors) with a tie-dye blur. However, almost 60 years into his lifespan, tragedy befell Toucan Sam. In the earliest advertisements, which you can watch on YouTube, Toucan Sam proclaims how delicious the smell of Froot Loops is in the Pig Latin decorating the box, lest the two infant toucans realize he is discussing Froot Loops. Later, as reports, Blanc stepped away from the role and Toucan Sam developed the British accent with which everyone is familiar, thanks first to Peter Frees then Maurice LaMarche. Since then, the adventures have expanded to include his nephews Puey, Susey, and Louis in all sorts of escapades, yet always retaining a focus on how fruity the Froot Loops smell (via YouTube). Froot Loops, though all the same in taste, provide the illusion of difference.

They describe an experiment where culinary students could not identify sodas if those sodas were dyed a different color, indicating that regardless of what our tongue may report, we still use our visual sense to compile a flavor profile. They found in a blind test that no one could identify any of the Froot Loop colors based on the taste. However, as HuffPost writes, colors have conditioned us to preemptively expect certain flavors. In 2014, FoodBeast decided to test this fact for themselves. But, as seen, the internet is fickle when it comes to such information, leaving article writers to express shock over and over as they reaffirm the unfavorable truth about the colorful cereal. This isn't a secret, as Kellogg's admitted that Froot Loops only come with one flavor to Straight Dope in 1999. The colors mean nothing more than a decoration to brighten the bowl of what would otherwise be substandard Cheerios.

However, the reality is that red stands for red, orange for orange, yellow yellow, and blue blue. Upon further searching, no primary sources or credible secondary sources document the lawsuit - not even the aforementioned 2009 lawsuit, which surely would have drawn on the name change as Kellogg's defense against any attempts to deceive the general public. The fact that the case received no citation on Wikipedia, that there were factual inconsistencies, and that between 2009 and the writing of this article that section of the Froot Loops Wikipedia page has been removed all serve to question the existence of Paxton vs Kellogg's. However, in addition to Kellogg's claim that Froot Loops entered the world in 1963, we have archived footage of a Yogi Bear commercial for OKs that aired in 1960. The Paxton case apparently occurred six months after Froot Loops was introduced as a substitute for OKs in 1959. In the comments section of that page, a person pulls 'Renee Paxton in Paxton v. Snack History cites its claim with a link to a 2009 article about a contemporaneous lawsuit concerning the lack of fruit in Froot Loops shared on Over Lawyered. The main source for this name change comes from Snack History.

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