Sunbites, another Walker's original! (Walkers SunBites)

Member Name: Nickycool

Product:	Walkers SunBites
Date:	12/05/08 (143 review reads)
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Advantages: Yummy, good for wholegrain intake, not a bad price

Disadvantages: No share packet as of yet!

At work, I usually get a meal deal at Boots. A sandwich, a drink and a packet of crisps. I was trying to cut down a bit and saw these on the shelf. Wholegrain, I thought, isn't that meant to be good for you? So I put it in the lunch meal deal bag and off to the till I went. 36p in Boots they are but I have recently bought a pack of six for £1.36 but they were from the bargain sections as they only had 3 months left on them. Silly eh? The original price was £1.55, which works out to about 26p a packet.

Flavours and the packaging.

They come in two different type of packets. Single packet (28g) and multi pack x 6 (25g). I only found this out from the website. I always wondered why the packet in Boots looked slightly bigger than the one I had at home. Just thought it was my eyes playing tricks on me.

The packaging is really appealing. A beautiful sunrise over a big meadow/field with trees. The word SunBites is in the middle of the meadow/field. Then under that, 2 crisps showing you what the SunBites actually look like and each different flavour has a different picture of a bowl with the ingredients of the flavours.

There are three different flavours at the moment. Original, Sour Cream & Cracked Black Pepper and Oven Roasted Onion & Rosemary. I haven't tried the Oven Roasted Onion and Rosemary one as I've never seen it on the shelves when I do the shop but it sounds lovely so I'm keeping my eyes peeled for them.

Fattening or not?

The packet for 25g, it contains 117 calories, 2.1g sugar, fat 5.4g, saturates 0.6g, fibre 1.7g and salt 0.3g.

Initially, I thought ouch 117 calories. That's quite a bit for such a small packet but it is more than one third of my wholegrain recommend intake, they have 30% less fat than normal crisps. They are made with no artificial colours, flavours or preservatives and also prepared with Sunseed oil, which is naturally higher in mono-unsaturates and lower in saturates. So I would go with not so fattening but don't eat too many packets.

The product

So on my lunch break, I open my sour cream & cracked black pepper packet and would normally expect to see a crisp. A normal greasy crisp but not in this packet. This crisp is in the shape of a square or an oblong, depends on how big the crisp is. It's a light shade of brown (cardboard colour) and have a rippled effect (see the front of the packet). In the crisp, there are flecks of the grains. To be honest, not that appetising to look at and they don't really smell of anything. So I take a bite. Crunch. The crisp has a lovely crunch to it and it tastes lovely. The sour cream hits my tongue immediately but give it a minute and you get the kick of the black pepper too. There's no funny aftertaste and before you know it the crisps are gone.

The overall opinion

They are absolutely delicious and not too bad for "crisps". Not bad value either. They only thing wrong with them, well with Walkers, is that they haven't brought out a share pack yet as people at work or my mum always nick some.

For more information, just visit the Sunbites website where you will find the Nutritional information and more about wholegrain and how it's good for you. http://www.sunbites.co.uk

Summary: Yummy bits of sunshine in a ripply crisp