Since my son is on a gluten and casein free diet we have tried out lots of gluten free products to see what "works" for us. My 6 year old has actually been amazing through the transition process because he normally is a child who is not adventurous at all in terms of what he eats. He picks the same handful of typical kid foods and that's what he wants. Unfortunately many of his favorites were no longer allowed on the gfcf diet so we set out to find some new favorites. Prior to the diet he liked to snack on pretzels, so when I saw that they made gluten-free pretzels I tossed them in my shopping cart.

About Glutino Pretzel Twists
From the Glutino brand of products, these pretzel twists can be purchased by the "family size" 14.1 oz bag or in smaller single serve bags. The store that I normally grocery shop at (Wegmans) only carries these in the large bag, so that's what I purchase - to the tune of $5.99 a bag. Yowzas! I shop weekly and a by a bag of these about every other time that I go.

These pretzel twists are:
Gluten Free
Casein Free
Egg Free
Tree Nut & Peanut Free
Kosher
No preservatives or artificial colors

Ingredients (from the manufacturer):
Ingredients: Corn starch, potato starch, palm oil, soy flour, sugar, sea salt, carboxymethyl cellulose, sodium carbonate, sodium pyrophosphate, soy lecithin, yeast extract, sodium hydroxide. May contain sesame seeds.


Twist and Shout.. these are AWESOME!
Gluten-free products are often hit or miss in the taste department. Even the same brand can offer some good products and some other duds - Glutino is one of the 'more common' gluten free brands but I haven't found their products to be consistently good or consistenly bad... instead they are all over the board. To be honest, I expected that these would be dreadful. Glutino showed this great picture all over the bag of mini-pretzels and I figured it was too good to be true.

Great news!

These taste as good as they look! You'd never know by looking nor by tasting that these are any different than a 'regular' pretzel. Each pretzel is 'mini' sized, about the size of a half-dollar and they are addicting. Just the right amount of crunch and saltiness that you'd expect from a pretzel snack. You could really sit down with a bag of these and do some damage. The official serving size is 32 pretzels, and there are 10 servings per bag. I don't count them out, I just grab a handful or so and send them off to school in a zip-lock baggie with my son's lunch. The baggie rarely comes back with any left so I know he is gobbling them up.

If my store carried these in the single-serving bag I would so buy these. Alas, they don't so I have to portion up the big bag accordingly and make sure its sealed really tightly with a chip-clip for the in-between times. Because there are no preservatives, they will go stale quickly if the bag isn't sealed tightly. I wish that glutino would put one of those resealable zipper seals on the family style bag to help ensure the freshness. When I'm paying $6 for a bag of snacks I want that bag to last and not get stale on me because air got into it. Still, I'll continue to buy these.. $6 or not, because they taste great and my son loves these for a lunchbox snack. I'll continue to buy these for lunches and also for general snacking in the house and for special occasions like parties when I need to set out bowls of munchies without having to police which snacks my little guy can safely graze upon.

www.glutino.com


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