The Good: Flavorful, Generally good ingredients, Affordable
The Bad: The caramel popcorn vastly outnumbers the cheese pieces, Comparatively short shelf-life.
The Basics: Wickedly Prime Sweet 'N' Cheesy Popcorn Mix is good, though noticeably more sweet than cheesy!
My local discount store frequently gets in products that are not usually available in stores, which is pretty cool. On one of their latest shipments, they seemed to get overstocked with Amazon and Target exclusives, which I thought was amusing (after all, if they are exclusives, how can they be stocked elsewhere?!). Given my love of flavored popcorns and good deals, picking up the bag of Wickedly Prime Sweet 'N' Cheesy Popcorn Mix was a no-brainer! The Wickedly Prime Sweet 'N' Cheesy Popcorn Mix is a bagged, pre-popped popcorn that bears a price of $4.99 on Amazon. Given that it would cost more than that to make one's own caramel coated popcorn,, that price seemed fair.
Basics
Sweet 'N' Cheesy Popcorn Mix from Wickedly Prime is pre-popped and flavored popcorn. Wickedly Prime has marketed their popcorn as an an add-on and it is a blend of caramel-coated popcorn and cheese-flavored popcorn pieces. The bag I bought was dramatically weighted toward the caramel popcorn in the mix. The Sweet 'N' Cheesy Popcorn Mix from Wickedly Prime comes in a 12 oz. bag. Inside the bag, the popcorn is exactly what one might expect of popcorn. It is popped, coated in a solid caramel coating or colored orange for the cheese pieces.
Ease Of Preparation
Wickedly Prime Sweet 'N' Cheesy Popcorn Mix is simple to enjoy; all one needs to do is open the bag and remove the popcorn from it! There is no trick to eating the Sweet 'N' Cheesy Popcorn Mix; this is a snack that is ready to go from the bag to the mouth.
Taste
Wickedly Prime Sweet 'N' Cheesy Popcorn Mix smells sweet and buttery, like caramel. The few concentrations of cheese popcorn pieces smell like cheese, but only very weakly and not like a clear, distinct cheese type. The aroma from the Wickedly Prime Sweet 'N' Cheesy Popcorn Mix is inviting.
The Wickedly Prime Sweet 'N' Cheesy Popcorn Mix is very sweet. The caramel flavor is strong and buttery and exceptionally sweet. The caramel popcorn pieces in the Wickedly Prime Sweet 'N' Cheesy Popcorn Mix are a wonderful embodiment of caramel corn. The cheese pieces of popcorn in the mix are much weaker and have a salty flavor that is good, but far less potent than the sweet pieces. When blended together, the caramel popcorn pieces completely overwhelm any flavor from the cheese popcorn.
The Sweet 'N' Cheesy Popcorn Mix has a strong sweet aftertaste.
Nutrition
The Sweet 'N' Cheesy Popcorn Mix is a flavored popcorn produced with minimal preservatives. The primary ingredients in the Wickedly Prime Sweet 'N' Cheesy Popcorn Mix are: popcorn, cane sugar and brown sugar, so it has quite a bit to it beyond regular popcorn/
Each one and a half cup (28 gram) serving of Wickedly Prime Sweet 'N' Cheesy Popcorn Mix has 130 calories, sixty of which come from fat. There is a single gram of dietary fiber and a single gram of protein. There are 6 grams of fat and 170 mg of sodium, which represents 7% of one's RDA of sodium. The Wickedly Prime Sweet 'N' Cheesy Popcorn Mix has 2% of one's RDA of Vitamin A, Calcium and Iron, but no other significant nutrients. There is a dietary note that the Sweet 'N' Cheesy Popcorn Mix has milk and soy ingredients, which prevents this from being Vegan compliant to people who make that choice. The Sweet 'N' Cheesy Popcorn Mix also has allergy warnings about tree nuts, peanuts and eggs. The Wickedly Prime Sweet 'N' Cheesy Popcorn Mix is Gluten-free and is marked as Kosher.
Storage/Clean-up
Kept in the bag, Wickedly Prime Sweet 'N' Cheesy Popcorn Mix will remain fresh for a decent amount of time. Our bag, which I picked up today, had a January 20, 2018 expiration date, though it is doubtful it will last around here that long! The Wickedly Prime Sweet 'N' Cheesy Popcorn Mix is a good snack to stock up on.
Cleanup is fairly simple. The Sweet 'N' Cheesy Popcorn Mix from Wickedly Prime is a dry food and thus leaves little mess behind. Unlike a popcorn with more cheese flavoring on it or a thicker caramel, this Wickedly Prime product does not leave any noticeable residue on one's hands. Once one is done consuming the Sweet 'N' Cheesy Popcorn Mix, wash your hands, throw out the bag and cleanup is done!
Overall
Wickedly Prime Sweet 'N' Cheesy Popcorn Mix is good, but it might as well just be caramel corn for how that element overwhelms the cheese popcorn.
For popcorn-related reviews, check out my reviews of:
Kettle Brand Maple Bacon Popcorn
Kernel Season's Milk Chocolate Caramel Popcorn Spice
Popcorn, Indiana Aged White Cheddar Popcorn
6/10
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