SunRidge Farms Snacks

Sunridge Farms makes a slew of snack foods, ranging from nuts and seeds, to dried fruits, to mixes, to candies.   As you know, I love snacks, so I've tried much of their range.

"Over the years, the SunRidge Farms™ name has become one of the most widely recognized and trusted names for organic and all natural nuts & seeds, dried fruit, candies, and snacks & trail mixes."

I believe SunRidge Farms claim - they really are one of the most widely known brands.  Their goods are available packaged or in bulk bins at pretty much every grocery store I've been to.  Some airlines lounges use their snack mixes.  I've tried tons of their products over the years.  Some of their products are awesome, others, not so much.  I can't really seem to find a pattern to success.  Just gotta keep trying!

Nuts and Seeds

SunRidge carries every type of nut and seed you can imagine, and then some.  From sweet butter toffee pecans and blueberry glazed almonds (its a thing!), to spicy chili lime pistachios, and every simple roasted salted nut in-between, they have you covered.

Hatch Green Chili Almonds.

• Butter Toffee Peanuts: "Creamy, rich butter and evaporated cane sugar create a delightful candy coating over premium peanuts. Satisfying and sweet!":  Nice candied peanuts! But not as thick toffee as I’d want.  I actually just prefer their honey roasted peanuts.
• Coconut Toffee Peanuts: Didn’t taste coconut at all, just seemed like toffee nut ...
• Dry Roasted Salted Peanuts: Love these things, so addicting.  Just simple dry roasted peanuts, but, really really good.
• Honey Roasted Peanuts: Great candied peanuts!  These are really delicious.  Some of the best honey roasted peanuts I’ve ever tasted. Far more candy like than most honey roasted peanuts, very nice. The honey really comes out. 
• Tamari Sunflower Seeds: "Delicious sunflower sweeds roasted with flavorful Tamari." Salty, nutty, not much tamari flavor.
• Peas, Wasabi Roasted: These had a good crunch, but not much wasabi flavor.  I love wasabi peas in general, but these just weren’t a very good version.

Chocolate Covered

For the sweet tooth, SunRidge likes to coat everything in chocolate too, usually dark chocolate, but they do some with milk as well.

Dark Chocolate Blueberries.

"Non GMO dark chocolate coating over blueberries."

These were ... fine?  Mostly just dark chocolate, with a bit of chew inside, not really able to taste blueberry distinctly.

Milk Chocolate Cherries.

"Sweet Bing Cherries coated with Rich, Milk Chocolate."

I really did like these.  Great chew from the cherries inside, plentiful rich creamy chocolate coating, chocolate and cherry were a nice pairing.

Dark Chocolate Malt Balls.

"Non GMO malt centers drenched in rich dark chocolate!"

These were fine malt balls.  Better quality than Whoppers, but not particularly extraordinary in any way.  I'd eat them, but not seek them out.

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Dark Chocolate Almonds, 61%.  

"Rich, Dark Chocolate coats crunchy, Dry Roasted Almonds for a decadent treat.  Try them and you'll be hooked. 61% Dark Cacao."

These were ... ok.  Decent dark chocolate, but kinda bitter overall.  Would not get again.

Dark Chocolate Covered Ginger Pieces

"Delectable Dark Chocolate smothers Zesty Ginger and makes this snack out of this world."

These, for me, were not "out of this world" as promised, and as I hoped.  For some reason, I found the dark chocolate used here to be fairly low end, or perhaps the problem was just how much it dominated the product.  I wanted to taste ginger, but alas, it did .... well, "smother" it, as promised I guess.

Would not get again.

Candies

Chocolate not candy enough for you?  They make candies too, mostly gummy.  As pretentious as they might sound, these are some really, really good candies.

• Sunny Bears. "The best gummy candy on the planet!"  These are some fancy gummy bears. Organic, gelatin free, gummy bears.  Some of the best gummy bears I've ever had.  Perfect level of chew, incredibly flavorful.  My other tasting notes read: [ ZOMG, amazing! So flavorful.  Love these. ] [ Noms!  Nice texture and flavor ] [ Great flavors and textures ] [ Great flavor, nice a soft yet chewy, love them ] [ Perfect amount of chewiness, tart and sweet and so flavorful! ] [ Perfectly chewy, perfectly tasty! ]
• Jolly Beans. Organic jelly beans.  Like the Sunny Bears, some of the best jelly beans I've ever had, super flavorful.

Dried Fruits

Dried Tropical Fruit Mix.

If you are the healthier type, SunRidge also makes a variety of dried fruits.  Again ranging from simple classics like raisins or dried figs, but also some more rare finds like dried goji berries, and of course, plenty of mixes.

• Mixed Fruit, Tropical, Cane Sweetened.  A mix of mango, papaya, pineapple, and banana.  I thought I'd love these, but they were awful.  Everything tasted like banana, it was incredibly dominating.  And the banana was totally unappealing dark brown chunks.  I like dried banana in this form, not banana chips, but this was just not good.  The pineapple and mango were totally lost in the banana-ness.  And it was all far, far too sweet.  The papaya was almost good, but again, the banana ruined it.  Would not ever get again.
• Greek Yogurt Covered Raisins: "Plump organic raisins dipped in fresh, creamy and delicious organic vanilla Greek yogurt coating". I found these way too sweet, and didn't like them at all.

Trail Mixes

I think SunRidge is most widely known for their trail mixes.  They make far more than I could ever enumerate.  Sweet, salty, spicy, healthy, decadent.  They have them all.

Zesta Fiesta Party Mix.

• All Natural Hit The Trail Mix: “Roasted Tamari Almonds & Sunflower Seeds, Cashews, Raisins, Peanuts, and Pumpkin Seeds”. Decent for what it is, but a fairly plain nut/seed mix.  Roasted peanuts have good flavor.
• Cranberry Jubilee: “Dried Cranberries, Papaya, Raisins, Apples, Almonds, Pumpkin Seeds and Brazil Nuts”: Decent for what it is.  Dried fruit is soft and flavorful.
• Zesta Fiesta Party Mix: “Corn sticks, Jalapeno Peanuts, Garlic Peanuts, Chili Lemon Peanuts, Spicy Pumpkin Seeds”:  Spicy, zesty, kinda good. Corn sticks are tasty, assorted peanuts ok.  Meh overall. 

Other Confectionary

And then ... everything else.  Items generally coated in yogurt, you know, "healthy".  

Yogurt Pretzels.

• Peanut Butter Pretzel: Not very strong peanut butter flavor, kinda disappointing.
• Raspberry Yogurt Pretzel:  Decently crunchy fresh tasting pretzel, really nice raspberry flavor in the yogurt.  Previous tastings: [ I like these, crunchy pretzel, nice rasp flavor. ] [ I really like these.  Raspberry flavor is really nice, pretzel is crunchy, yum. ] [ I love love love these.  Great raspberry flavor, great salty pretzel. ] [ Love the raspberry yogurt flavor, good crunch, yum! ]
• Yogurt Peanut Clusters: Pretty good, nice peanut flavor, good yogurt.  Would be even better if raspberry!
• Yogurt Pretzel: A lot like raspberry ones, except without raspberry flavor. Sweet.  Pretty tasty.  Pretzel tastes fresh and crunchy.