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| Toonies Spicy Mexican Flavor Product Review |
Toonies Spicy Mexican Flavor snacks are a line of fast food products from the Orion brand, featuring eye-catching yellow and orange chips that offer a rich spicy corn flavor and an explosion in the mouth, very Mexican.
About the Aroma
The first impression after opening the package is the aroma; the chips have a light scent intensity, with a dominant corn aroma and a slight hint of spicy chili, creating a warm sensation in the nasal cavity when sniffed closely.
About the Color
The chips come in two colors: orange and yellow, evenly and distinctly distributed across each chip, adorned with deep red speckles from chili flakes, creating visual appeal and promising an explosive spiciness.
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| Chips in two colors: orange and yellow |
About the Texture
The chips feature a light and airy structure, with large air pockets making the internal texture fragile, resulting in a crispy crunch as various edges break apart when bitten, resembling a honeycomb structure, but with larger holes and a light hardness, creating a unique crumbly sensation when bitten.
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| Chips with a light and airy structure, creating crispiness |
The chips are primarily in stick or flat square shapes (like rice cakes). The stick-shaped pieces lean towards a crisp texture when broken, while the flat square pieces give a crumbly sensation when eaten, making the chip dissolve in the mouth.
About the Flavor
When eaten, you can distinctly taste the sweet corn flavor; there is also a hint of soybean flavor, but it is very light and hard to discern (possibly overshadowed by the corn flavor).
The chips tend towards sweetness, followed by saltiness, and may have a slight sourness that is difficult to detect (or may not exist).
You can clearly perceive the sweetness when chewing, with the flavor intensity gradually increasing, while the saltiness is felt when the tongue touches the chip, suggesting that the saltiness primarily comes from the seasoning coating the chip, and the sweetness originates from the chip's inner part.
The spiciness of the chips is quite mild but enough to create a slight warm sensation in the mouth when eaten, depending on the amount of chili flakes on the outside, which can slightly enhance the spiciness.
In my personal opinion, the flat square chip offers the best experience due to its airy structure with many holes, combined with its flat shape, making the chip's flavor more intense than usual, the spiciness greater, and especially the unique crispiness, which is the part of the chip I like the most!
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| Airy structure with large holes, allowing for more seasoning absorption |
Product Packaging
Some Information:
Ingredients: Corn flour, vegetable oil, Mexican-style kebab seasoning mix 7.9% (sugar, salt, flavor enhancers (621, 627, 631, 951), milk powder, natural flavors, natural similar), vegetable powder, maltodextrin, thickeners (414, 1450), anti-caking agents (551), soy sauce powder, acid regulators (330), natural coloring agents (160c(i)), synthetic coloring agents (150c), fish sauce powder, hydrolyzed soybean protein), corn starch, sugar, potato flakes, iodized salt, natural coloring agents (160c(i)), chili flakes 0.1% (natural flavoring (chili), dextrin, natural coloring agents (120), synthetic coloring agents (110)), green chili powder 0.1%, emulsifiers (471), stabilizers (170(i)), synthetic coloring agents (160a(i)), antioxidants (307b).
The product contains the following allergens: Milk, soy, wheat, fish, and may contain egg and shrimp.
Nutritional value in a 35g package:
- Energy: 200 kcal
- Total fat: 13 g (17%)*
- Sodium content: 190 mg (8%)*
- Total carbohydrates: 19 g (7%)*
- Sugar: 2 g
- Protein: 2 g
(*) percentage of daily nutritional value based on a 2000 kcal diet. The nutritional value in a 32 g package is approximately 0.9 times the nutritional value in a 35 g package.
Shelf life: 6 months from the date of manufacture
Date of manufacture: See the back of the package, in the lower left corner, marked as "Production Date," with the date and time information printed in black on a white background (based on the design at the time of 26/8/2024 - subsequent versions may differ)
The above is my entire personal experience with Toonies Spicy Mexican Flavor products, hoping it provides useful information for you to make appropriate choices among the myriad of fast food products available on the market today. Thank you!