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Is there a better combination than
apple and cinnamon? No need to think about that, because the answer
is “no”: it’s the perfect combination of sweet, juicy, maybe a
little tart, and then back to sweet again. And that's why my eyes lit
up when I saw Aldi was selling a multi-pack of apple cinnamon
pouches, under their Simply Nature moniker. I actually purchased
these for our son, but after they fell by the wayside and were still
sitting in our pantry after a couple of months, I decided to try one
for myself.
Yep, tastes just as one would expect
this to taste like: if baked apples were ground up into a pouch.
There’s the taste of apples in the forefront, followed up
immediately by a nice kick of cinnamon to bring it all home—to me,
this flavor is absolutely addicting, and a textbook example of what
this combination should taste like when well-executed.
Adding to the positives is the value: a
four-pack of these will run you around $1.89, if memory serves me
right, which would put these somewhere around $.47 per pouch...and
that's not at all a bad price. These are also pretty darn healthy,
with only 60 calories, 5mg of sodium, and 11g of sugar per
single-serve pouch...and if a great-tasting, healthy snack isn't
something you can feel good about giving your kids, then I don't know
what is!
They certainly aren't perfect, though:
they're as small as they look, and for this reason are very
anti-climactic to give to a child as a snack. Our son is only three
years old, and he seems to suck them down the moment I get the lid
off; considering they aren't anywhere near filling, he's asking for
another one, or something else, immediately thereafter. These might
work as a “side” or beverage to another snack or meal, but don't
really amount to much on their own.
Despite those relatively minor “flaws”,
the flavor is very good, and while the value proposition isn’t as
strong as I’d like it to be thanks to the small pouches, it’s
still a great snack to have on hand for whatever reason.
Overall: 7/10. The value proposition
could be stronger (although you get four for under $2, these pouches
are teeny-tiny and can be drained by a three-year-old in under 30
seconds), but these are a pretty healthy, quick snack for parents and
kids on the go. They taste great, with a flavor reminiscent of
ground-up baked apples in pouch form, but aren't too overly sweet. I
won't get them all the time—mainly because our son has other snacks
he prefers—but for a good ol' fashioned change of pace, these will
fit the bill quite well.
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