The Good: Tastes good, Generally good ingredients
The Bad: Could be a little more affordable, Not the most healthy snack, Not the most bold nutty flavor.
The Basics: Unlike the Mint flavor, Keebler Fudge Sticks Jumbo Peanut Butter cookies are more average than extraordinary.
Ever since my wife and I picked up the Keebler Mint Jumbo Fudge Sticks (reviewed here!), I’ve been eager to try some of the other flavors of their Fudge Stick cookies. So, when I found the Keebler Fudge Sticks Jumbo Peanut Butter flavored cookies at the grocery store this week, I decided it was worth a calorie splurge to pick them up!
Keebler Fudge Sticks Jumbo Peanut Butter flavored cookies are a wafer-style cookie, that come individually wrapped in a cardboard box. At $2.99 for only six cookies, these are actually expensive compared to other cookies and on par with the expense of the average health bars.
Basics
Keebler has been around, pretty much forever, making cookies. The Keebler Fudge Sticks Jumbo Peanut Butter cookies are individually-wrapped wafer cookies and they are good, though they are not the most environmentally friendly.
Each 31 gram Keebler Cookie is a single bar-style cookie approximately 6” long and 3/4” wide and thick. Fudge Sticks Jumbo Peanut Butter Cookies come in a 6.6 oz. box with all six individually-wrapped bars. The box does a decent job of preventing breakage, even after one eats half of the cookies. A serving of Keebler Fudge Sticks Jumbo Peanut Butter cookies is a single cookie.
Ease Of Preparation
Eating Keebler Fudge Sticks Jumbo Peanut Butter cookies is not a real challenge, simply unwrap the cookie, which is pretty much like a candy bar, and consume. When you have a cookie out, all you have to do is stick it in your mouth and chew; there is nothing complicated or foreign about eating these cookies.
Taste
Opening the individual wrap around each of the Keebler Fudge Sticks Jumbo Peanut Butter cookies reveals a strong, nutty flavor. There is almost chocolate scent to these cookie bars.
The Keebler Fudge Sticks Jumbo Peanut Butter Cookies are delightfully chocolatey, though. The chocolate flavor is sweet and milky and surrounds the very dry wafer cookie beneath. The peanut flavor is appropriately dry and essentially nutty, but much sweeter than most peanut butters on the market. The cookies are sweeter than they are dry, so it makes the peanut flavor a little less robust than some of the other Keebler fudge cookies. There is no aftertaste to these cookies.
Nutrition
Keebler Fudge Sticks Jumbo Peanut Butter cookies are intended as a sweet snack, not a full meal. One of these 31 gram cookies represents a single serving and they are not at all nutritious. Made primarily of sugar, vegetable oil and peanut butter. This is not an all-natural food product and these cookies were produced on equipment that forces them to add a disclaimer about peanuts, soy, and wheat. The peanut part is pretty obvious given that these are peanut butter flavored.
Keebler Fudge Sticks Jumbo Peanut Butter cookies have a whopping 170 calories for a single cookie serving, 80 of which are from fat. A full serving represents 25% of one's RDA of saturated fat, though they are cholesterol free. As well, they are fairly low in sodium for a cookie, having only 35 mg per serving. They have two grams of protein and only two percent of the RDA of Iron . . . and no other real nutrients. As one who is working on getting heart-healthy, I wish there had been even a gram of dietary fiber. The ONLY thing that brings these cookies down is the real lack of nutritional value.
Storage/Cleanup
Keebler Fudge Sticks Jumbo Peanut Butter cookies are easy to care for and clean up. Unopened, they have a pretty short shelf life; I purchased a box on the July 5 (2012) and they have an expiration date of November 30, 2012. Kept sealed, I am sure they would have lasted at least that long. As cookies, one need only not shake the box excessively to care for them and wipe away any crumbs after eating them. This is a low-stress food!
Overall
Keebler Fudge Sticks Jumbo Peanut Butter cookies are good, but more average than superlative in any way.
For other reviews of Peanut Butter products, please check out:
Kashi GOLEAN Peanut Butter & Chocolate
Quaker Chewy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Granola Bars
Chocolate Peanut Butter Bugles
5/10
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© 2012 W.L. Swarts. May not be reprinted without permission.
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