BEPPS Snacks - Variety Pack - 24 x 22g Packs - Vegan Friendly - Gluten Free - Good Source of Protein and Fibre - Healthy Snack - Great Flavour

Tasty little morsels but not terribly filling. Pleasant snack though.

These are an odd snack. They’re made to look like small Wotsits, and the texture is not dissimilar but a little firmer. They’re quite satisfying to crunch, and fairly moreish, and they leave a flavour dust on your fingers, just like Wotsits.But if you’re expecting cheesy Wotsits flavour, think again- they’re a law unto themselves flavour-wise. The real taste of black eyed peas does come through, but the overriding flavour is peanut butter. And not a sweet peanut butter- one of the organic smooth earthier ones. You could cross out “cheese flavour” on the packet and write “peanut butter flavour” and feel like the truth had won out.I’m not restricted to a gluten free or dairy free diet (though I’ll occasionally try those products), so I also tested them with some of the gluten- or dairy-intolerant colleagues in my office, and got mixed results. “Not that bad”, “sweet yet not flavourful”, and one particularly unimpressed “2 out of 10”. Oddly I think I was happier with them than my gluten-free friends were.The bag size is larger than Walkers, but the 22g serving isn’t particularly generous and the bag is mostly air, which is disappointing- but maybe to be expected since these are pitched as a ‘premium snack’ type product and people seem to expect bigger bags when spending more on their snacks…I enjoyed these as something a bit different and unusual, and since I’m a big peanut butter fan as well. People desperate for Wotsits-equivalent snacks will be disappointed though.

These are little puffed snacks, with a similar weight, hand feel and appearance to cheese puffs - if cheese puffs were shrunk to between a half and a third of their normal size and coated in dusting that’s a bit more natural in appearance than radioactive orange. The snacks come in foil bags. Inside the bags, they’re good and crispy, and seemed very fresh. Best before date on the box I received is 18 October 2019, so a little less than 5 months from when ordered. These are supposed to be cheese flavoured, but to me really don’t taste anything like cheese at all.I quite liked the underlying snacks themselves. They’re light, crunchy, and a bit of dried pea flavour does come through. The little puffed pieces are really thickly coated in seasoning powder. The seasoning seemed a bit inconsistent, with some pieces quite sweet and very milky, others less so. To my taste, none of it tastes cheesy. There’s sweetness, nuttiness (from nutritional yeast), quite a lot of milkiness (from rice flour used in the coating), a tiny smattering of salt, and a fair bit of flour lingers as an aftertaste. There is a little bit of dry, pea protein flavour that comes through in chewing.I’d certainly be willing to try the salt and pepper and/or sweet chilli versions (in hopes these aren’t as clarted in rice flour) as I didn’t dislike the basic consistency of the snack. But these didn’t impress me at all as cheese flavoured. Instead, I thought that with the combination of sweetness, light saltiness, and nuttiness they tasted more like a slightly weak peanut butter. I didn't dislike that, but to me it sits a bit oddly with the extra 'milky' flavour coming from the rice flour.

These are tasty little snacks made with pea flour. Luckily they don’t taste like peas (Organix and Kiddylicious both do pea puffs which do taste like peas, if that’s what you’re looking for).These are a lot like chickpea puffs like Hippeas snacks and not so much like regular cheese puffs like Wotsits which are a lot lighter and melt-in-the-mouth. They’re crunchy and full of flavour; I got the cheese ones and these have herbs/flavourings and are not overwhelmingly cheesy. They’re more grown-up in their flavour profile in this respect, especially if you compare them to standard cheese puffs where the cheese flavour tastes more artificial.The puffs are individually quite small but they're firm with a denser texture so they feel more substantial and take a bit longer to eat than you expect. I remember thinking there wasn’t much in the bag the first time I tried these but the small 22g bag turned out to be surprisingly filling; I think the heavier texture as well as the protein and fibre content no doubt helps with creating a feeling of satiety.Nutritional info for those interested: 91 calories a bag; 3.7g fat (0.4g saturated fat); 12g carbs (0.7g sugar); 1g fibre; 3.3g protein.The snacks are both vegan and gluten free and made with organic ingredients, so they make for a healthier alternative to regular crisps. I think they can be enjoyed by kids and adults alike and are ideal for lunchboxes. I'd definitely try the other flavours on the back of enjoying the cheese variety.

I hadn't tried any of BEPPS Snacks products previously so, as a vegetarian, I was interested to see how their Vegan-Friendly puffs compared with the more traditional Wotsits and the like. These puffs are made mainly from organic black eyed pea flour and organic whole rice flour which gives them more substance than corn puffs, although each puff is quite small – half the size of a Wotsit or less. I have only tried the cheese flavour puff snack so far and I must say that I didn't find them particularly cheesy – quite tasty but more of a nutty flavour to me. On the plus side these snacks are organic, low in calories - with 91 kcal per pack, and they are quite high in protein and fibre. However, they are quite expensive compared with more traditional puff snacks with a box of twenty-four 22g bags costing around twenty-three pounds currently from Amazon – which is the best part of a pound a bag. BEPPS Snacks seems like a responsible manufacturer and these cheese puffs tick many boxes - Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Organic, Suitable for Vegans, Suitable for Vegetarians – if any or all are important to you. Good quality and tasty but a little expensive – four stars for value at the current price.