Frooze Balls

Frooze Balls are a quasi-confusing named healthy snack ball from New Zealand (I say confusing because many people think you are supposed to freeze them.  You aren't.  That's just their name.  Don't ask me why.) 

The balls all use a base of dates, nuts, and coconut.  No refined sugars, no preservatives, yadda yadda.  Vegan, gluten-free, made with clean foods, etc, etc.  The only sugars come from fruit.  Basically, healthy snack bites with some protein, in ball shape rather than the more common bar form we have in the US.  This style of "bliss ball" is far more common in New Zealand and Australia.

Frooze Balls come in a dozen or so flavors, all with some kind of filling (single or double).  All sound pretty tempting: chocolate hazelnut, peanut butter & jelly, caramel choc peanut butter, raspberry dark chocolate, blueberry crumble, lemon cheesecake, "fudgetastic", dark forest, salted caramel, cookie dough, and more.  The dual filled ones have have the center with one filling, the other half with the other.

I only tried one flavor of these, but I think they are just a bit too healthy for me.  I did really like the smaller form factor, which makes it easy to eat just two for a snack before a workout, or a full bag of 5 for something a bit more substantial.

Choc Hazelnut.

"All the yum of chocolate and hazelnuts are in-froozed into one little coconut covered incredi-ball to keep your taste buds happy and your body too! These taste like a healthy version of your favourite truffles. Freshly made peanut butter and a fruit-sweetened choc hazelnut sauce are wrapped inside a froozey layer of dates, peanuts and coconut."

I wanted to find the pb&j flavor, but my Trader Joe's had only the choc hazelnut.  The balls were coated in shredded coconut, which made them pretty dry.

The base shell of the ball was definitely a healthy taste.  There was no denying that I was eating dates and coconut, with some bits of nuts in there for a bit of texture (almond, cashew, peanuts).  I didn't really taste the cocoa.  Inside was one side filled with nut butter (peanut butter, it seemed, even though these were the choc hazelnut?) and one side filled with chocolate hazelnut.  I did taste nuttiness, and sorta nut butter, but again, the chocolate aspect was minimal at best.  They were not sweet.

Overall, a miss for me: too strong of a date taste (I don't like dates), too healthy tasting, and too bitter.  But if you like healthy bites and dates, I think these could be a fun product.  **+.