Cheese or rubber? (Mini Babybel)

Member Name: SweetTooth93

Product:	Mini Babybel
Date:	10/07/09 (27 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Nice, low in calories

Disadvantages: fat, small

I quite often like a cheese snack and I normally opt for a block of plain cheddar cheese to satisfy my cravings, or thick slices of cheddar on my sandwich with coleslaw! However sometimes the only thing that will do, is a baby bel! One I've tried recently is the regular baby bel!

They are sold in all supermarkets such as Asda and Tesco and can be found in the dairy aisle alongside the likes of cheese strings, lunchables and dairy lea dunkers! They also come in different sized packets with different quantities. This is a plus side. You can get them in bags of 12 or in bags of 6. We usually buy the 12 pack though! The pack of 6 costs £1.58 and the 12 pack costs £2.88 however it has been on offer for a while at £2. This is a great saving!

The babybels come in a net packaging which I have always found weird. It has to be ripped to be opened and this can sometimes be a bit of a struggle. Inside the babybels are kept in their red plastic wrapper. These have a sticker on which basically read BABYBEL in large writing. The wrapper can be removed easily enough.

Inside the cheese is in a nice little shape. It is very pale in colour and very smooth. There is no real smell coming off of it at all. Biting in the taste of cheddar is really strong. It is not as strong as regular stuff though. It also tastes slightly of the plastic cheese slices you get. The texture is really smooth but quite rubbery however it is very easy to bite into it!

One 12g babybel contains 40 calories and 3.5g of fat. Calorie wise this is really quite good but it is a lot of fat for the size of it! It is worth bearing in mind that the mini babybels are a fair bit smaller than the real ones so this is probably why the calorie count is so low.

Summary: /