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Fruity Pebbles is a breakfast cereal introduced by Post Cereals in 1971 and featuring characters from the animated series The Flintstones. It contains fruit-flavoured crispy rice cereal bits. A similarly-themed cereal is Cocoa Pebbles.Unlike its sister cereal, which has remained essentially the same over the years, Fruity Pebbles has undergone many formula additions and variants such as "Fiesta Fruity Pebbles", "Half Sugar Fruity Pebbles", "Marshmallow Mania Pebbles", and "Bronto Bright Pebbles". The cereal started out with three flavors: Orange, cherry, and lemon. New flavors were added over time such as grape, lime, Berry Blue in 1994, Incrediberry Purple in 1995 and Bedrock Berry Pink in 2005.The formula for both versions of Pebbles had a major addition in the 1990s: polydextrose became a key ingredient.The classic television commercials for both Pebbles cereals had a recurring theme: Barney Rubble attempts to trick Fred Flintstone out of his cereal, or to simply steal it outright. Barney was often in disguise in these attempts, and sometimes, he pulled off his gag with some help from Dino. In protest of his burglarized breakfast, Fred customarily shouted, "Barney, my Pebbles!" and gave chase.
