The Good: Good ingredients, Fairly good nutrition
The Bad: Comparatively expensive, A lot of breakage in the box!
The Basics: Good Thins The Oat One Sweet Oat & Flax snacks are a wonderful balance between salty and subtly sweet to make for a very satisfying, but not overbearing, crispy healthy snack!
In my long history of writing reviews, it turns out that I have written incredibly few reviews of crackers. I review a lot of different snacks and I eat crackers periodically when they are inexpensive, but I have not made any real push to review the ones I enjoy. Tonight, that changes some as I am reviewing foods still from my food subscription box that my mother got me for the winter holidays. In the box of assorted yummy foods was a box of Good Thins The Oat One Sweet Oat & Flax crackers.
It is worth noting up front that the box of crackers is fully called: Nabisco Good Thins The Oat One Sweet Oat & Flax Oat & Wheat snacks. I am not certain what separates a cracker from an "oat & wheat snack," but inside the box were crackers (seriously, is a Truth In Advertising thing? Do crackers have to have an industry recognized crispness to them? Or is Nabisco trying to quietly support the War On Drugs by not calling its crackers crack, er, sirs, that is a bit of a stretch. Anyway, I opened the box of Nabisco Good Thins The Oat One Sweet Oat & Flax crackers tonight and these crackers were a clear hit with my wife and I!
Basics
Nabisco Good Thins The Oat One Sweet Oat & Flax crackers arew a fairly new product. The crackers are each 1 5/8" square by about 3/16" thick. Each cracker is slightly curved and textured. The Good Thins The Oat One Sweet Oat & Flax crackers are a light tan with golden brown accents, as if they have been baked (which, according to the box, they have); they do not have a uniform appearance like, for example, a Triscuit or Wheat Thin. The surface of the Good Thins The Oat One Sweet Oat & Flax crackers contains little nuts and seeds as well; no two crackers look identical!
The standard box of Good Thins The Oat One Sweet Oat & Flax crackers is 6.5 oz. That represents approximately six servings. Our box had three good servings, one and a half servings that could be reasonably cobbled together from the various broken crackers and then a serving and a half of jagged crumbs. Our box of Good Thins The Oat One Sweet Oat & Flax crackers was packed with broken crackers, which solidly diminished the value of getting the box (fortunately for me, it was part of a larger assortment; unfortunately, if one encounters the same problem in the store, odds are the consumer is s.o.l. on broken crackers!).
Ease Of Preparation
Good Thins The Oat One Sweet Oat & Flax crackers are very easy to consume. These are a ready-to-eat snack food and one need only open the liner inside the box, pull out twenty-one crackers and start eating them!
Taste
The Good Thins The Oat One Sweet Oat & Flax crackers have a delightfully buttery aroma to them. The scent of buttery goodness and grain dissipates surprisingly fast after the bag is opened, but for a brief moment, there is a concentrated scent that could entice anyone looking for a delicious, salty, snack!
In the mouth, the Good Thins The Oat One Sweet Oat & Flax crackers are lightly salty and buttery, but the dominant flavor is the oats! These crackers taste like some delightful form of crispy oatmeal! The honey in the Good Thins The Oat One Sweet Oat & Flax crackers adds a sweetness that keeps each cracker from ever seeming too dry on the tongue. I'm not certain what the "flax" adds on the flavor front (I'm guessing they are there for the nutrition); these are powerfully oat-flavored crackers with a hint of honey and an appropriate amount of salt. On the balance, these are a sweeter cracker than they are salty.
Good Thins The Oat One Sweet Oat & Flax crackers leave a lightly dry aftertaste, but the bulk of the aftertaste that is left in the mouth (for only a few seconds) is the oats! After consuming these crackers, I moved my tongue around my mouth and the little cracker pockets I found were just like oatmeal - even from their texture! The aftertaste dissipates very quickly after the last cracker is consumed.
Nutrition
Good Thins The Oat One Sweet Oat & Flax crackers are fairly nutritious, though the cracker market has not (apparently) caught up with breakfast cereals; there are no added nutrients sprayed onto these crackers to attempt to artificially boost their nutritional value. As a result, the health benefits of the Good Thins The Oat One Sweet Oat & Flax crackers stand solely on their (mostly) natural and recognizable ingredients. These crackers are made primarily of whole grain oat flour, enriched flour, and whole grain rolled oats. There is actually nothing in the ingredient list that is not natural or recognizable, which is nice!
A single serving of Good Thins The Oat One Sweet Oat & Flax crackers is considered twenty-one crackers (30 grams). In a full serving, there are 140 calories, 45 of which come from fat. On the plus side, there are only .5 g of saturated fat (3% of one's RDA) in a full serving and there is no cholesterol. For those watching their carbs, the Good Thins The Oat One Sweet Oat & Flax crackers can be eaten while on a keytogenic diet (if they are pretty much the only carbs one has for the day!) as these crackers have 21 grams of carbohydrates, with two grams of dietary fiber (19 net carbs). While the consumer gets 2% of their RDA of Potassium from the crackers' 60 mg of Potassium and 2 grams of Protein, the only other real nutritional benefits of the Good Thins The Oat One Sweet Oat & Flax crackers come from trace amounts of Calcium (4% RDA) and Iron (6% RDA). On the plus side, while these crackers might not contribute a lot to one's daily nutritional needs, they do not detract at all from eating healthy!
The Good Thins The Oat One Sweet Oat & Flax crackers obviously contain wheat, so they are not gluten-free! Only the most staunch vegans who refuse to eat honey will find anything in these crackers that is not Vegan-compliant! I am not certain why, but I could not find any indication that the Good Thins The Oat One Sweet Oat & Flax crackers were considered Kosher (there is no marking for that on the box!).
Storage/Cleanup
Good Thins The Oat One Sweet Oat & Flax crackers are easy to keep fresh, provided they are kept in a cool, dry environment. When one is not eating the crackers, it helps to close the plastic bag inside the box to keep moisture out. Kept such, our box would not have expired until March 16, 2017, so these do not have the longest shelf life in the world!
Cleaning up after the Good Thins The Oat One Sweet Oat & Flax crackers is generally easy; they crumbs may be wiped up fairly easily, though there was such a mess of crumbs and broken crackers at the bottom of our box that we stopped eating them (it turns out, birds love the Good Thins The Oat One Sweet Oat & Flax crackers!).
Overall
Good Thins The Oat One Sweet Oat & Flax crackers are delicious and made with good ingredients. For the price, though, the sheer amount of broken crackers was a serious detraction. Despite that, it seems like Nabisco has another potentially timeless cracker in its portfolio (presuming they do not simply give up on them before the marketplace can find them!) with their Good Thins The Oat One Sweet Oat & Flax Oat & Wheat Snacks!
For other foods from my subscription service box, please be sure to check out my reviews of:
Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits
Kala Beautiful Beans Simply Peppered roasted fava beans
Wise Butter Flavored Air Popped Popcorn
8/10
For other food reviews, please visit my Food Review Index Page for an organized listing of all the food reviews I have written!
© 2017 W.L. Swarts. May not be reprinted without permission.
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