Kelloggs Mixed Berry Fruity Snacks

The story of fruit snacks and their impact on society and culture may never be fully understood. Most scientists attribute the origin of the fruit snack to Charles Darwin. It is said that he created the first fruit snack while study turtles in the Galapagos Islands. He found that when you boiled together the livers and tails of various unnamed lizard and then added sugar the mixture would settle into a round red or blue shaped snack. For whatever reason these snacks tended to be shaped like real objects and contained several times the necessary amount of Vitamin C to ward off scurvy. Historiticians have concluded that the most likely cause of the great depression wasn't the repercussions of the industrial revolution, but rather the crippling shortage of fruit snacks available to city dwellers (due to the abundance of lizards in the rural areas there was no shortage) Its is also said that Albert Einstein thought of his famous theory of relativity while chewing on fruit snacks. In fact early versions of the theory revolved more around the speed of flavor being constant than the speed of light. Fruit snacks have had such a glorious and substantive history that it would be difficult to list everywhere they've had an impact.

Though the history of fruit snacks is always interesting it isn't entirely necessary for this analysis of the fruit snacks in our vending machine. The bag of fruit snacks weighs in at a hefty 2.5 oz which makes it one of the best values in the machine (popcorn still holds the record). Inside the bag is a mixture of raspberry, strawberry and blueberry shaped and flavored fruit snacks. In my opinion there are two main parameters that make a fruit snack delicious. The first and most obvious is flavor. The second, and in my opinion the more important, is the consistency.We could debate forever about which one of the flavors is best (rapsberry), but I think that this review should really be of the snack as a whole and not its individual components. The flavors of any individual piece of fruit snack is fruity and delicious. The flavor of all three mixed together can at times be a bit overwhelming for one's senses. Every bite has a the nice combinations of fruitiness and sweetness. The snacks are reminiscence of both a delicious piece of fruit and a satisfying candy.

The consistency of fruit snacks is often overlooked or ignored, but its really what makes the candy fun to eat. Fruit snacks can range in constancy from hard snacks that are very difficult to chew and often become stuck to your teeth to overly soft snacks that quickly dissolve in your mouth before you are satisfied. The trick is to find the spot in the middle that is ideal. Without question the best conistency fruit snack in history is the great white shark fruit snack found in Shark Bites. When biting down on it there is a nice resistance that makes you aware that you are eating something but doesn't get in the way of enjoying it. A truly good fruit snack should have the same feel a slightly undercooked piece of al dente pasta. As you squeeze one between your teeth you first feel the snack compress in the middle and spread out to the sides. As you continue biting down you reach a critical point where the internal tension in the fruit snack is too high and it tears in half. These Mixed Berry Fruity Snacks are do have a very fine consistency but they do not quite live up to The Great White. They are soft at times such that I find myself eating them just a bit too fast and not slowly enjoying them like I would prefer.