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[Bonnie Tandy Leblang]: If you're trying to get more oat bran into your diet this is good as an occasional alternative to a bowl of hot oat bran or oatmeal. Each muffin provides 11 grams of oat bran - more than cereals such as Post Oat Flakes or Kellogg's Cracklin' Oat Bran but less than a serving of Kellogg's Common Sense Oat Bran.

[Carolyn Wyman]: Am I the only person who's had it up to here with all these new oat bran products? Oat bran cereals, oat bran muffins, oat bran bread - the next thing you know, they'll be trying to slip it into cheesecake. It'd be one thing if this stuff tasted good. As it is, the best a consumer can hope for is a company that knows how to disguise oat bran's bad taste.

Bonnie: A packaged gelatin mix is little more than artificially flavored and artificially colored sugar. Each half-cup serving contains nearly 5 teaspoons of sugar, even more than a serving of sugar-saturated Tang. A major difference between Royal and competitor Jell-O is that Royal fortifies its gelatin dessert with some vitamin C. That's one difference that would make me favor Royal.