Produced by Meiji, a renowned Japanese confectionery company, Hello Panda Cookies have gained a global following for their irresistible taste and charming panda-shaped design. The Costco Meiji Hello Panda Strawberry Cookies bring together the combination of crunchy biscuit and strawberry filling. Whether enjoyed as a snack on-the-go or shared among friends, are these cute-looking cookies sure to satisfy cravings and leave you wanting more?
I always prefer fresh bakery cookies over packaged ones so I was a bit surprised at myself for purchasing the Costco Meiji Hello Panda Strawberry Cookies. Something about the bright pink packaging and cute cartoon panda on the box lured me to buy them.
Other packaged cookies from Costco are the Kirkland Signature Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies, School Safe Birthday Surprise Cookies, Other packaged cookies from Costco are the Kirkland Signature Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies, School Safe Birthday Surprise Cookies, Lotus Biscoff Cookies, Made Good Red Velvet Mini Cookies, Highkey Mini Cookies, Leclerc Celebration Milk Chocolate Cookies and the Kirkland Signature European Cookies.
Location in Store
These cookies are located in the snack section at Costco, near the front of the store. The item number is 1501153.
Taste
I liked these a lot better than I thought I would! I didn’t think they sounded or looked very appetizing, but I was hooked after my first bite.
They’re basically just mini-filled cookies. The outer shell is light, crunchy and pretty plain. It’s a bit salty though, so it’s kind of like a cross between a cookie and a pretzel or a cracker. The cream filling is sweet with a nice but artificial strawberry flavor. The amount of filling seems to vary a bit from cookie to cookie. You notice it much more in some bites than others.
Cost
The box containing 32 bags of hello panda cookies costs $13.99 Canadian which isn’t bad for so many bags! They’re small bags but still that’s 32 snacks for your kids to enjoy.
Convenience
Each bag contains about seven cookies and the best-before date is 10 months from when I purchased them. The bags are easy to pop in a purse, lunch bag or backpack.
I think kids would love the bright packaging and adorable-looking cookies. I could see these being something traded for on the playground.
Nutrition
Calories
One bag of cookies has 110 calories, six grams of fat, 13 grams of carbohydrates, zero grams of fibre, six grams of sugar and one gram of protein. The calories and sugar aren’t as high as I was expecting. There are small yogurts for kids that seem healthy with more sugar in them than this bag of cookies. That doesn’t mean these cookies are healthy though.
Ingredients
Unfortunately, there aren’t many healthy ingredients in these hello panda cookies. The second ingredient is sugar. There’s also palm oil, soybean oil and artificial flavors which we know I don’t love to see but see in tons of products. The healthiest ingredient I see is the greek yogurt powder.
The cookies contain milk, soy, wheat and barley and may contain egg.
Scoring
Taste: 8/10
Cost: 8/10
Convenience: 10/10
Nutrition: 0/10
Overall
Give it a try!
This is a fun and addictive snack that kids will love! I suspect a lot of adults will too – I ate two bags without even thinking about it as I wrote this review!
Have you tried these panda cookies? What did you or your kids think of them?
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I had a chuckle about the panda and package colour luring you to buy. That has the opposite effect on me! I’m thinking it’s a generational thing. The taste sounds really gross and I would no more buy these than fly to the moon lol. Guess I’m not in their targeted demographic!
Thanks for your review 😁
Agreed. I’m a bit more discriminating when choosing what to put into my body. Natalie checks these things out so that we can at least know if we are missing out on anything. When I was younger and more adventurous, I found many of these items to be disappointing as far as the taste was concerned.