The best thing to come out of America?! (New York Bakery Plain Bagels)

Member Name: bruffyboy

Product:	New York Bakery Plain Bagels
Date:	22/08/09 (37 review reads)
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Advantages: nutritional info

Disadvantages: bit bland

Now I normally have the cinnamon version of these, but there is a place in my heart for the plain ones too, so let me tell you about them!

Coming in at just 2% fat and 10% sugar, they are a surprisingly healthy product considering how sweet and enjoyable they are to eat. They are ideal toasted, and challenge the standard bread toasted (at 5% fat and 7% sugar) as a healthy alternative.

A bagel is (consults wikipedia): a bread product that is part boiled before baking. These ones are flavoured with cinnamon and raisins. Basically, they look like doughnut shaped fruit buns, but taste even better.

The texture is interesting - a glaxed outer hides the soft, doughy and chewy bread that is interspersed with a healthy portion of raisins which explode in your mouth with refreshing moisture.

You can eat them as they are, but they'll be a bit dry, so I recommend toasting them. When you cut them in half, they are surprisingly sturdy and cut really well. When you're toasting them, the smell of cinnamon wafts everywhere and is just gorgeous.

Taste wise, they are sweet and almost cake-like. There's no overpowering or dominant taste (unlike with the cinnamon ones) and that makes them ideal for spreading on. What I mean is, why not put a spread on them that will add the taste, such as jam or even marmite? Maybe not marmite but my point is that these plain ones have a much better ability to take a topping and not give conflicting and odd tastes like with the cinnamon ones.

At around £1 a bag in Tescos, they're well priced. I would recommend them to people bored of bread (they're half the fat of bread) and in search of something a little fancier to replace toast in the morning.

All in all, these are one of the best finds I have had in recent months, and are sooo nice. Best eaten piping hot, don't let them sit around for even a second after getting them out of the toaster.

If you don't like them, but fancy something similar, try the cinnamon ones. They taste and smell really unique. You can also get sesame seed topped ones in the same range which I haven't tried but they might take your fancy.

Summary: do it