YUM! (Mc Vities Mini Cheddars)

Member Name: millwallcris1885

Product:	Mc Vities Mini Cheddars
Date:	06/11/09 (19 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Cheddary, crispy goodness

Disadvantages: not much

Mini Cheddars
The Product - Small, baked, cheese flavour snack biscuits.

The Packaging - The packaging is fairly simple and straight forward. The pack is bright orange with the blue McVitie's logo at the top (making them easy to find in the supermarket!). The back of the pack contains pertinent nutritional information and a list of the ingredients, as well as an advert for McVitie's Healthy Balance website.

Ingredients

Wheat flour, vegetable oil, dried powdered cheese (12%), sugar, glucose syrup, salt, dried whey powder, malt extract, raising agent (ammonium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate), lactic acid, natural flavouring, pepper extract.


Nutritional Information

Each bag contains:

Energy - 129 kcal
Protein - 2.8g
Carbohydrate - 12.7g
Fat - 7.5g
Fibre - 0.6g


My Verdict

I love Mini-Cheddars. They are one of those foods that seem to have been around for ever and haven't changed at all over the years.
If you have never tried Mini-Cheddars they are small oven baked biscuits with a savoury cheese flavour. Like most 'cheese flavoured' things, I'm not convinced that they taste exactly like cheese (despite containing 12% powdered cheese). It is a however, a very pleasant savoury taste that is slightly salty. As McVitie's are keen to tell you, Mini-Cheddars are baked not fried, which means that they are not at all greasy, which is a bonus for me.
Try as I might I could not find the weight of the bag printed anywhere on the packaging, so for the purposes of this review I counted how many Mini-Cheddars come in a pack. I counted 23 Mini-Cheddars in this pack, which is a fairly decent sized portion. I usually eat mine as part of my mid-morning snack at 10:30am and they see me through until lunch at 1pm.
From the nutritional info above you can see that they are not the healthiest snack in the world but neither are they the worst. Compared with a bag of crisps they are quite high in calories but slightly lower in saturated fats, so its swings and roundabouts really.
A 6 pack of Mini Cheddars should cost around the £1.50 mark which is comparable to multi-packs of crisps. Up until recently Tesco had them on special offer as part of a buy one get one free promotion. Keep your eyes peeled for offers like these and stock up on the cheap.
I would definitely recommend these as a tasty alternative to crisps. I have been eating them for as long as I can remember and never get bored with the taste. Given the choice between these and pretty much any other crisp-type snack, I would opt for Mini-Cheddars every time.

Summary: Atasty alternative to crisps