PRIFOOD Snax Hits Review

Prifoods is relatively unknown snack Food Company started around 1990, and as far as I know have little adverts. I have seen them making affordable snack alternatives to the big brands. Their Corn Chips are price-wise on par or lower than the competition. I found a bag of Hits under its direct competitor Oishi’s Pillows, part of my classic 50 pinoy snacks. For 6 Php I decided to try this out.

Opening, I can find that the snacks are not the same color as the packaging (cookie brown vs dark brown) which betrays my trust in the packaging. Hopefully they would fix that. The smell was the weak smell of sweet cocoa that hints to the flavor of the snack

The rice flour shell offers no flavor own its own. It’s weak and easily gives way when you bite it and melts in your mouth if you don’t. Biting into it, the chocolate filing bursts out inside my mouth. Its not too sweet and not too bitter. However, there is something off. Maybe it’s the texture and the hint of hydrogenated fat that is common in lower-end chocolates like Goya’s 17 php chocolate bars.

It’s a pleasant snack to eat with its not too sweet chocolate filling and a complimenting shell. Its main competitor is Oishi’s Pillows and is on par with it. It’s a great snack without bringing anything new to the table.

       Rating: :-) "Great and would recommend"

Jack n’ Jill Fun Fries Review

Jack n’ Jill Fun Fries is a small bag in the middle of bigger competition when I found it in the supermarket. It was right beside Jack n’ Jill’s classics like Piattos and Oishi’s Potato Fries. I bought it for 5 pesos. It reminded me of the times when other snacks of the same size was available for 5 pesos but now have gotten more expensive.

The fries are uniformly sized, hollow and are of a vibrant orange. Breaking one let off a satisfying crunch. The size is awkwardly between Pik-Nik’s fries and Oishi’s Potato Fries; its size mimics closely the fries of McDonald's. This size made it unique compared to the two but made it hard for me to get just one fry if I blindly grabbed some from the bag.

Taking a bite confirmed the satisfying crunch sound but the cheese flavor was underwhelming. It was just a light dusting of cheese powder, a betrayal of the fries’ vibrant orange color. The texture of the fries wasn’t anything new; it was just like any other dry and crunchy snack. It is only hard at first but quickly dissolved in the mouth making you want eat more. The fries did give a hint of potato just like other potato based snacks (Oishi’s PF, Lala’s Potato chips).

The weak flavor is both a good thing and bad thing. It makes you less likely to get tired of it and doesn’t give you the “cheesy fingers”; on the other hand it made the snack feel cheap, even for its 5 pesos price tag.

I also tried the BBQ flavor and most of my points apply to it.

Overall: Jack n’ Jill didn’t innovate with Fun Fries; it is too similar to its competition. They offered a crunchy snack with weak flavoring but nothing much wrong for its price tag. 
Rating: :-|