Diet food that tastes good! Yes I said good! (Ryvita Muesli Crunch)

Member Name: nursie_nursie

Product:	Ryvita Muesli Crunch
Date:	31/10/08 (208 review reads)
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Advantages: Low in fat and calories, a sweet treat, veggie.

Disadvantages: Not as nice as regular biscuits.

Being on a low fat diet is not easy, cutting out fats items is easy you would think but the amount of fat in a lot of things is higher than you actually realise. Although I am not usually one for biscuits as you would expect me to be from the product I am reviewing today I decided to try these to add a sweet treat or two into my full on diet to make me feel like I was a little less deprived and also to try and make myself less likely to 'cheat'.

Ryvita is a well-known brand that I can remember my mother eating when she was on a diet back when I was a kid. With time comes change and they have modernised to fit in with the changing market and now offer more than just the original cardboard crisp breads they used to. They now do snack bags of a product that I assume is similar to crisps, these come in an assortment of flavours and are something I am planning on trying in the near future. Also they now do a cereal type bar but I don't know much about these.

They do several varieties of the crisp breads now this being one of them but they also do the original, multigrain, sesame seed, hemp seed and spelt, dark rye, pumpkin seed and oat, sunflower seed and oat and muesli crunch.
They are now bringing out two new varieties, rosemary and garlic and tomato and basil. I am very interested in seeing these!

I have tried a couple of the varieties previously mentioned but out of all of them, these, these are my favourites!

They come in a colourful box with an inner bag containing them to keep them fresh and crispy. They are a thin biscuit like crisp bread, flat on top with indentations underneath, I will come back to these later on in my review.

They measure almost a centimetre thick and are 10cm by 6cm. The top is dusty and not too appealing to look at but the underside with the aforementioned indentations also has obvious pieces of oats and pumpkin seeds. With close inspection you can even see grains of sugar.

I like to eat these alone as they are or with a thin layer of mashed banana on them. To me serving suggestions with these are limited, I want to keep it low in fat but even if you open up to any topping there aren't many that would work.

The indentations are very handy when I have mashed bananas on them as the indentations mean that the banana doesn't slide off, they would have the same effect with any other wet topping so I think they are a brilliant idea, I take it that is why they are made with them anyway.

They are crisp enough to be like a biscuit but not to the point where they are difficult to eat. They don't go soggy from my banana either, not that I leave it lying around a long time to find out.

The currants, oats and pumpkin seeds really add to the flavour and over all appeal of these but for me the small amount of sugar they add to them makes all the difference and makes them seem like a treat rather than boring old diet food.

Per biscuit they are 57 calories and 1g of fat.

These cost £1.33 in Asda but I sometimes get them on offer at two for two pounds. They aren't that cheap but I enjoy them so will carry on paying that price for them.

They add roughage and variety into my diet and they don't add too much to my calorie and fat intake! I like them for breakfast!

Summary: Not like cardboard, unlike the originals!