Chex


 * This article is about the brand of cereal. For the Peterborough, Ontario TV station, see CHEX-TV. For its sister station in Oshawa, see CHEX-TV-2. For the credit reporting agency, see ChexSystems.

Chex is a brand of breakfast cereal now manufactured by General Mills. It was originally owned by Ralston Purina, and the Chex name reflects the "checkerboard square" logo of Ralston Purina. The product was sold to General Mills in 1997. For many years, advertisements for the cereal featured the characters from Charles Schulz's "Peanuts" comic strip.

Its flavors include:
 * Wheat Chex Cereal
 * Corn Chex Cereal
 * Rice Chex Cereal
 * Multi-Bran Chex Cereal
 * Honey Nut Chex Cereal
 * Frosted Mini-Chex Cereal
 * Chocolate Chex Cereal
 * Chex Morning Party Mix

Chex is also known as the basis of a baked snack called Chex Mix. Chex Mix recipes were regularly featured on Chex cereal boxes, and later, commercially prepared Chex Mix snacks began to be sold in supermarkets.

Video game
Chex was featured in a first person shooter video game entitled Chex Quest, in which the player takes on the role of an anthropomorphic piece of Chex cereal. In actuality, it is nothing more than a modified version of DOOM's IWAD (graphics, sounds, levels, etc.) and executable. However, two new games based on Chex are a sequel entitled Chex Trek using a modified Doom 3 engine and a prequel using the Wolfenstein 3D engine respectively.