Editing Cap'n Crunch (section)

{{short description|American breakfast cereal made by the Quaker Oats Company}}
{{For|the hacker informally known as "Captain Crunch"|John Draper }}
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| name           = Cap'n Crunch
| logo           = Capcrunch textlogo.png
| logo_size = 200
| image          =  Cap'N Crunch – Sweetened Corn & Oat Cereal, with milk.jpg
| caption=Cap'N Crunch – Sweetened Corn & Oat Cereal, with milk 
| type           = [[Breakfast cereal]]
| currentowner   = [[Quaker Oats Company]]
| origin         = [[United States]]
| introduced     = {{start date and age|1963}}
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| website        = {{URL|https://www.capncrunch.com/|capncrunch.com}}
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'''Cap'n Crunch ''' is a [[maize|corn]] and [[oat]] [[breakfast cereal]] manufactured since 1963<ref>{{cite book |last=Shea |first=Stuart |title=The 1960s' most wanted |publisher=Potomac Books |year=2006 |isbn=1-57488-721-1 |location=Dulles, Virginia |page=60}}</ref> by [[Quaker Oats Company]], a subsidiary of [[PepsiCo]] since 2001. Since the original product introduction, marketed simply as ''Cap'n Crunch'', Quaker Oats has introduced numerous flavors and seasonal variations, some for a limited time—and currently offers a Cap'n Crunch [[product lining|product line]].

The original Cap'n Crunch cereal was developed to recall a recipe of brown sugar and butter over rice.{{Citation needed|date=May 2025}} It was one of the first cereals to use an oil coating to deliver its flavoring, which required an innovative baking process.<ref name="umstat"/>