There's more to Ryvita than Crispbread - Now there's a flatbread (Ryvita Thins Multiseed)

Member Name: foreveramber

Product:	Ryvita Thins Multiseed
Date:	27/05/09 (74 review reads)
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Advantages: Crisp, tasty, lots of seeds, don't break apart on eating

Disadvantages: A bit pricier than other Ryvitas

As a long-time consumer of Ryvita products, I've been very excited by the new additions to their ever expanding range. For so many years there were just the two varieties of crispbread: Original and Dark Rye. Now they've branched out into crackerbreads, mini Ryvitas, cereal bars, bagged snacks, sweet crispbreads and the newest addition, Ryvita Thins.

Ryvita Thins (at the time of writing!) come in two flavours: Cracked Black Pepper and Multiseed. This review is for the Multiseed variety. They're actually called a multi-seed flatbread rather than a crispbread.

I am a regular purchaser of Ryvita Sunflower crispbreads but happened to have a money off voucher for a packet of Ryvita Thins. I admit I probably wouldn't have bought them without the voucher but figured that if I didn't like them, I'd palm them off onto hubby as he eats everything.

They weren't hard to find, sitting at eye level on a shelf with all the other Ryvitas. They seemed quite expensive in comparison with the others in the Ryvita range and the voucher certainly helped.

On opening the box there is a clear plastic type tray sealed by clear cellophane packaging. All the Ryvitas are in the same packet so once you've opened it, you need to keep them in an airtight container to keep them crisp, unless you can't resist eating them all at once. They're not all that easy to extract though. You have to slide the whole tray out otherwise if you just try to extract one or two crackers, they end up breaking.

To look at, they're tall and thin, longer than the Ryvita crispbreads and about half the width with a lovely light golden colour. The top is generously sprinkled with an assortment of seeds including hemp, brown linseed, golden linseed and millet seed while the underside is smooth.

When you come to eat them they are surprisingly light and crunchy. Thankfully they're not the sort of cracker to break into a million pieces when you take a bite and they hold together really well. The seeds are the main flavour of these flatbreads, in particular, one seed which to me tastes like sesame seeds. I think it must be the linseeds as there aren't actually any sesame seeds on them. Whatever it is, the combination of seedy flavours and crisp crunchiness is so tasty that I know I'll be buying these again.

I gave some to one of my daughters one day for lunch to dip into her houmous. She shared one with her friend who liked it so much she wanted to know what it was so she could ask her mother to buy some. My daughter also raved about them when she got home, so it looks like these will be a lunch-time regular.

They're widely available in supermarkets for around £1.76 for a 125g box of 20-25 flatbreads.

Nutritional Information per Ryvita Thins is as follows:

Calories: 37; Protein: 1.5g; Carbohydrate 5.7g (of which sugars) 0.2g; Fat 0.9; Fibre 0.9g; Salt 0.2g

Ingredients

Wheat Flour, Mixed seeds (24%) (Hemp Seed, Brown Linseed, Golden Linseed, Millet Seed), Wholegrain rye flour (8%), Palm Oil, Sea salt, Yeast.

Summary: Delicious, healthy, crunchy flatbreads and great to use in dips