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May 2010Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Eat with your Eyes: Choward’s
Pretty, pink and guava flavored candies. Quite a different texture from Altoids, LifeSavers or SweeTarts. POSTED BY Cybele AT 8:06 am Candy • Featured News • Fun Stuff • Photography • Monday, May 10, 2010
Nestle Cherry Raisinets
Still, it’s a great idea. How many real fruit candies are there? I loved the idea that they were also using dark chocolate, which I think is an excellent mix with the tartness and wine-notes of dried cherries. The ingredients list in classic Raisinets is mercifully short: milk chocolate, raisins, sugar, tapioca dextrin and glaze. The ingredients for the new chocolate covered sunshine Cherry Raisinets are Dark Chocolate [with dairy], sweetened dried cherries (cherries, sugar, sunflower oil, citric acid), sugar, tapioca dextrin, confectioners glaze, cocoa processed with alkali.
The package makes some claims:
Fact: the nutrition chart makes no mention of measurable antioxidants. There is no Vitamin C, no Vitamin A. There is 2% Calcium and 2% Iron.
I love fresh cherries and even the dried ones, I’ve never seen the need to add extra sugar to them.
With the Cranberry Raisinets I was irritated at how sweet the centers were. Even though they added sugar to these (or maybe because they also threw in some citric acid) they were tart, moist and chewy. The dark chocolate is sweet and rather cool on the tongue. It’s only vaguely chocolatey, but not too waxy or distracting. The cherry notes are well rounded - the woodsy and tangy chew is soft and complex. It gets tarter the longer I chew, so the very end is a lot of cherry flavor. These are by far my favorite Raisnets product so far (but that’s not hard because I’m not that fond of Nestle’s take on chocolate covered dried fruit). I wish it was better chocolate, of course, and wasn’t so sugary ... but the prospect of getting chocolate covered dried cherries in a vending machine or at the movie theater is tantalizing. I wouldn’t eat them as a health food, but they’re a snappy snack and probably better for you than some other things. The retail price of $3.29 for 4 ounces is a bit steep for low-quality chocolate candy ($13.16 a pound) but these may end up on sale for less. Note - I got mine as a sample from the National Confectioners Association as part of their preview of new products. Nestle did some wide sampling and giveaways, mostly with the mommy blogs (that I didn’t care to participate in), so mine is hardly the first review of these even though I have yet to see them in the stores. Related Candies
POSTED BY Cybele AT 3:34 pm Candy • Nestle • Chocolate • 7-Worth It • United States • Eat with your Eyes: Licorice Stix
Thin black licorice vines filled with a vanilla cream. They were decent, more like candy than licorice. Package image here. POSTED BY Cybele AT 7:35 am Candy • Featured News • Fun Stuff • Photography • Sunday, May 9, 2010
Eat with your Eyes: Zero Bar (Canada)
Here’s another bar I got a hold of and never reviewed. The American Zero Bar (made by Hershey’s) is like a white fudge Milky Way. I took its picture and then it promptly melted into an unreviewable puddle. The Canadian Zero Bar is like a bar version of Ice Cubes. You can read The Candy Enthusiast’s reviews for more. Package image here. POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:58 am Candy • Featured News • Fun Stuff • Photography • Saturday, May 8, 2010
Eat with your Eyes: Compartes Glace Fig
Last week I got some new trees. I have quite a little orchard going on in my back yard now. The new citrus, Mineola Tangelo, Meyer Lemon and Yuzu, join my Persian Lime and Fig trees. Of course nothing is bearing fruit right now, but walking around them and seeing the green figs certainly got my mouth watering. Last year I went to Compartes in Brentwood and was blown away with the glace Figs. POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:44 am Candy • Featured News • Fun Stuff • Photography • 
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