If you’re looking for a vegan, gluten-free, plant-based snack you may want to check out the Costco Hippeas Chickpea Puffs. The ingredients list may be impressive but how about the cost and taste? Find out below!
Other crunchy snacks from Costco are the Kirkland Signature Corn Chip Dippers, Sensible Portions Garden Veggie Straws, Tropical Fields Crispy Coconut Rolls, 4505 Chicharrones Fried Pork Rinds, Moon Cheese, Asiago Pepper Jack Cheese Crisps and the innofoods Garden Crisp Crackers.
Location in Store
I found these in the snack section at Costco near the front of the store in Hawaii and at home in Alberta. The item number is 1745348.
Taste
I don’t love these as much as I hoped I would! The texture is very, very light and crunchy. The puffs basically dissolve in your mouth. They’re powdery and leave a bit of residue on your fingers but nothing like the bright orange fingers you get from Cheetos.
The puffs have a strong nacho flavor that’s oddly a bit sweet. The sweetness is what turns me off, I don’t know where it’s coming from but I like a purely savory nacho flavor. Although they aren’t vegan, I prefer the Angie’s Boom Chicka Pop Puffs over these.
Cost
This 510 gram bag of puffs costs $8.99 Canadian which isn’t bad for a snack that’s marketed as gluten-free and vegan.
Convenience
These are a perfect snack for anyone who’s following a gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan diet. The best before date is about nine months from when I purchased them. Unfortunatrly the bag doesn’t reseal you can either use an elastic on the bag or clothespin to keep the puffs fresh.
I thought my toddler would love these because she loves the Angie’s puffs so much but she wouldn’t even try them after smelling them.
Nutrition
Calories
34 puffs contain 220 calories, eight grams of fat, 33 grams of carbohydrates, five grams of fibre, two grams of sugar, seven grams of protein and 370 milligrams of sodium.
Ingredients
The ingredients list isn’t very long with chickpea flour being the first ingredient. I don’t really see any ingredients that are absolutely terrible but I wouldn’t say these are nutritious.
The Hippeas puffs are gluten-free, kosher, vegan, nut free and have plant based protein from the chickpea flour.
Scoring
Taste: 6.5/10
Cost: 7/10
Convenience: 10/10
Nutrition: 5/10
Overall
Give it a try!
If you’re on a gluten-free, vegan diet your snack options are limited so you might find these enjoyable. I personally think there are much better snack options at Costco.
Have you tried the Hippeas Chickpea Puff Snacks? What did you think of them?
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