Hu Snacks

Thank you, JetBlue.

Thank you for introducing me to Hu, a brand I likely wouldn't have discovered on my own, but now regularly crave and seek out.  Hu makes a variety of chocolate products: milk or dark chocolate bars, baking gems, and chocolate covered things (hunks).  The products are all gluten-free, keto, paleo, etc.  All organic, fair trade when possible.  No refined sugars. Vegan besides the milk chocolates.

Bag of Hu!

I've only had one of their products, the parting gift given on JetBlue Mint flights, but I really adore them, and would gladly try more of their products.  (They usually give you just one bag, but, uh, my flight attendant really hooked me up when I said how much I loved them!).

Dark Chocolate Hunks

"Chocolate covered and ready for snacking."

Hunks are just the brand name for (dark) chocolate covered things.  They are available in only 3 varieties: almonds + sea salt, sour goldenberries, and cashews + vanilla bean.  Pretty simple concept that is done a zillion times over.  Chocolate covered nuts and dried fruit.  Yup, been there, seen that.  Or at least, that is what I thought, until I tried these.

I've only had one kind of Hunks, but I found them exceptional.  Yes, they still *are* just chocolate covered nuts, but they are done very, very well.

Cashews + Vanilla Bean.

"Think of Hunks as the perfect marriage between our signature 70% dark chocolate — the same we use in our Simple Dark Chocolate Bars — and organic nuts."

Yes, the product I'm raving about is just chocolate covered cashews.  And while I like cashews, I certainly don't generally get excited about them, chocolate covered or not.  But these I get excited about.

The ingredients are pretty simple: cashews, cacao, cocoa butter, coconut sugar, salt, vanilla bean.  No palm oil used in the chocolate coating, which makes them less shiny that most other brands. The coconut sugar used to sweeten is unrefined.  Simple.  Just basic chocolate covered nuts.  They shouldn't be special right?

But they are so good!  The chocolate coating is less creamy and shiny compared to traditional chocolate covered items, and the layer isn't particularly thick, which all sounds like it would be a negative, but actually, allows the quality of the dark chocolate and the nut itself to really shine.  The chocolate is deep, dark, and intense, and not too sweet.  The nut is nicely roasted, tastes quite fresh.  The touch of sea salt makes them pop.

These are just really quite good.  Not much more to say than that.  A great snack, a nice little treat to sneak alongside my breakfast, likely great paired with red wine too.  Love them.  ****+.