Oh No!  The truth has been revealed about Cheetos!  Eating bag after bag of these tasty unique snacks has been a joy all through college and my adult life.  The Crunchy Cheetos were always the best but I never realized why until Giant Cheetos arrived.  We love that unique super cheesy taste which fills your mouth with a burst of vibrant flavor for almost two seconds and then disappears down your throat.  The next chip is then at your lips ready to swallow down in a hurry as it this we a challenge to see how long the sensation on your taste buds could really last. 

Then the shock of my junk food life came with Cheetos Giant.  Crunch down and you get a brief cheese flavor which is then followed by a bland wheat germ like flavor which is the inside of a cheeto.  The bland taste is so bad you will not want to eat another one.  Thinking back to how Cheese Poofs taste, it all makes sense.  I like the cheese flavor and the chip underneath is nothing but filler material. 

Ingredients
Each 1 oz serving or 28 grams (8 pieces) has 150 calories with 80 calories from fat.  The total fat is 9 grams with 1.5 grams saturated and no trans fat.  The product has 0 milligrams of cholesterol but 250 milligrams of sodium.  You find 55 milligrams of potassium and 2 grams of protein.  Total carbohydrate is 17 grams. 

Each oddly tasting corn ball has the following ingredients inside:  Enriched corn meal, vegetable oil, cheese seasoning, high oleic canola oil, maltodextrin, salt, whey protein concentrate, disodium phosphate, monosodium glutamate, natural and artificial flavors, lactic acid, citric acid, artificial color (yellow 6) and salt.

For those interested in more nutritional facts, here is the product's website:
http://www.fritolay.com/our-snacks/cheetos-giant-puffs-cheese.html

Summary
The massive marketing campaign that was launched in April 2009 for this product made me feel these snacks would be a fun treat to eat.  The television commercials, internet advertisements and radio broadcasts were very compelling.  The myth was that these snacks had a full robust flavor.  The reality for us now is that I would recommend purchasing a bag of Crunchy Cheetos instead of this product.  For some even better treats that you may have never tried before check out these snacks:  Trolli Sour Brite Octopus, Black Forest Gummi Worms or Haribo Happy Cola Gummis. If you see Giant Cheetos, pass them up on the grocery aisle and do not look back!

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