Tasteless but Inoffensive! (Quaker Snack A Jacks 'Barbeque' Rice & Corn Snacks)

Member Name: marymoose

Product:	Quaker Snack A Jacks 'Barbeque' Rice & Corn Snacks
Date:	05/08/09 (146 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: They're alright

Disadvantages: They don't taste of much!

---Intro---
The other day in Tesco I spotted three flavours of Snack-a-Jacks which I hadn't yet tried, in a three 26g bags for £1.20 offer, so put a pack of each in the trolley - you lucky lucky dooyoo readers!

For those who aren't in the know, these bags of snacks are mini rice cakes, and a suitable (and perhaps slightly healthier) alternative to a packet of crisps.


---The packaging---
My packet is predominantly brown with a picture of the snacks on and the nutritional info, boasting only 6% fat (2% od your GDA of fat), and on the back claiming that a Designer Belt is a "Must-have" (just something Snack a Jacks do on their packets).


---The nutritional info---
In a 26g pack there's 106 calories, which is more than in some of the other flavours (although this is slightly bigger than the 22g bags from multipacks that I've previously reviewed), 2.2g sugars, 1.6g fat (0.2g saturates), and 0.4g salt.

The main ingredients are rice, maize (with germ removed - jolly good, we don't like germs!) and barbeque flavour which contains lots of weird sounding things and including lactose (so watch out if you have allergies/intolerances) and milk made with animal rennet, so unsuitable for vegans, and I'd imagine vegetarians. However, the pack is suitable for coeliacs. If people have issues with food then I would expect that they should be checking their food themselves before buying, but full ingredients can be found here - http://www.snackajacks.co.uk/products/snacks-barbe cue.aspx


---The eating experience---
It's snack time....on opening the packet the snacks are quite yellow in colour with a slight orange tinge. I have to say that there's not really much of a barbeque smell.

First mini rice cake (they're about 1.5 inches in diameter and unsurprisingly look like mini rice cakes), and I'd have to say it's pretty bland in taste. Second one, and I can just make out a slight barbeque taste if I concentrate. There were 17 snacks in my pack in total (for review purposes I counted them using a tally chart).

The snacks are pretty inoffensive, and I would imagine that anyone who likes rice cakes would find them edible...but that's the point, they'd find them edible even if they didn't like barbeque flavour!

On the plus side these aren't too salty, and like the other snack a jacks, they are more filling (when calories are taken into consideration) than a packet of crisps. They have a nice crunch to them, and don't make as much mess as full sized rice cakes.


---Final Comments---
I would give these barbeque snack a jacks 3 out of 5 (more like 5 out of 10 though), because they are alright as a snack, and there isn't much not to like about them (unless you dislike rice cakes, in which case I doubt you'd be stupid enough to buy them!)

However, I don't think I can really recommend them as they really don't have much flavour at all, the barbeque taste is very very faint. If you want something barbeque flavoured you'll probably do better sticking with crisps!
I doubt I'll be buying this flavour again.

Summary: Might as well stick with plain rice cakes if you don't want taste!