The first snack we’ve reviewed that involves fruit, Brother’s All Natural Strawberry Banana Crisps claim to be the healthy snack that Mother Nature herself would eat, but does that mean you should? With 41% of your daily recommended Vitamin C and only 45 calories per bag, they are definitely healthier than Utz Natural Snacks for instance, though I can’t say they are anywhere near as tasty.
I purchased Brothers All Natural Strawberry Banana Crisps at an airport but even so they were extremely expensive for a snack bag that is about the size of most 25 50 cent bags you see today, if not smaller. It was hard to feel they were a good value, even though they were a “healthier” snack.
The Banana and Strawberry crisps were easy to differentiate and all of them seemed to be covered in residue from the strawberries. The back of the bag stated there are about 5 strawberries and 1 banana inside, but it really didn’t seem that way unless they use mini bananas. I guess I wouldn’t assume there would be more strawberries than banana because a large banana can be cut up into more than 5 pieces.
In terms of taste, the banana crisps definitely tasted like an actual banana, at first. Then there was an odd aftertaste that was very hard to describe, it sort of tasted like a banana, but I wasn’t fully sure. The strawberry crisps were obviously much sweeter and full of flavor and seemed to dissolve more whereas the banana crisps were crunchier. The crisps were unbelievably light and we even tried our first MunchiesBlog “drop test” and they almost floated like a feather compared to your standard potato chips.
So are Brothers All Natural Strawberry Banana Crisps the snack Mother Nature would really choose? The crisps flavor is fruit-like, but overall the combination of taste and texture puts these in a pretty unique category. Personally, I think she would prefer real fruit, and I have to admit so would I. For the price and amount you get you could probably buy a banana or some strawberries and feel healthier too. Yes, we just recommended fruit as a snack, another first! :).
Tags: crisps, fruit, healthy snack, Made in the USA, unique
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I’ve had the Fuji Apple variety twice, once alone and once with on our daughters. The verdict both times: apple flavored cardboard.
See. Opinions differ. I thought they were DELISH. FYI, a Fruit Crisp isn’t a chip as we know it. It is an actual freeze-dried fruit piece. Brothers Fruit Crisps are made with fruit and nothing else and I think they are plenty of tasty. (am partial to the pear ones)