Tapuchips Kids Ketchup Flavored Snack

תפוצ'יפס קידס בטעם קטשופ

Tapuchips latest addition is a Ketchup flavored Tapuchips Kids potato snack.

Tapuchips Kids is a puffed baked snack made of potatoes that is meant to "melt in your kids mouth" in the way that cheese doodles "melt" in your mouth.

The other Tapuchips Kids products seem to be very good sellers. They even won a Productof the Year Awards two years running, so it makes sense for Elite to add to this line of snacks.

Ketchup flavor is a very logical choice, given that many kids love ketchup so much. I know some kids (of all ages) who would eat almost anything you put on their plate as long as it's drenched in ketchup.

Osem's "Dubonim" Ketchup Flavored Potato Snack

אסם דובונים בטעם קטשופ

Osem's added a ketchup flavor to their "Duponim- דובונים" = Teddy-Bear shaped puffed potato snack.

The Dubonim snack is clearly geared to toward children. Seeing that kids seem to love ketchup this new flavor does not surprise me, on the contrariety, it actually makes perfect senses to me that Osem would use their popular ketchup as a flavor for this potato snack.

I think the bear shaped puffed "potato chips" are really cute. As far as I know kids really enjoy fun and different shaped snacks, so these sweet looking teddy-bears absolutely fit into that category.

The Dubonim are crispy and crunchy, but I still think they are somewhat "melt in your mouth" and therefore soft enough, which I would say most likely, makes them suitable for young children as well.

I mentioned in my review of Osem's Pizza Ketchup that I'm not a huge fan of Osem's ketchup. I much prefer Heinz's. Part of the reason I don’t love Osem's Ketchup is that I find it a little "too sweet" but when it comes to this potato snack I see the extra sweetness, in this Osem Ketchup flavor, as a benefit. I think it kinda works well on these puffed teddy-bear shaped potato chips.

The Osem Ketchup flavor is clearly present but I didn’t think it was at all "overpowering". I didn’t love or hate this snack but then again I'm not their "target audience".

Each 40 gram bag of Ketchup Flavored Dubonim Potato Snacks is enriched with 6 vitamins including; vitamins A, B1, B3, B6, B12 and C. The vitamins in the snack make up about 20% of the daily recommended vitamins for children 4 to 8 years old.

This Ketchup Flavored Dubonim Potato Snack has no artificial food coloring and no added preservatives.

Bottom Line: Osem's Ketchup Flavored Dubonim Potato Snack is far from my favorite potato snack but I think kids 4 to 8 years old who love Osem's ketchup would absolutely enjoy the taste and shape of these cute teddy-bears.

40 gram bag – 3.99 NIS

Kosher Parve Mehadrin - Charlap

Disclaimer: All items were purchased by me. No one is paying me for this review. All opinions are my own.

Osem's Pizza Ketchup

קטשופ אסם מתובל לפיצה

Osem has a new Ketchup on the market. This new Ketchup is a "Pizza Ketchup"; it's Osem's ketchup with added pizza-sauce spices, so you easily prepare your own "pizza" at home

The new Osem Ketchup is in a squeeze bottle, just like their regular ketchup, they actually look almost identical, you can tell them apart by the photo. On this new ketchup there is a picture of a pizza pie

I'm not a huge fan of Osem's Ketchup; truth is I don’t use ketchup that often to start with. I was really disappointed when I realized that Heinz Ketchup was not Kosher for Passover, here in Israel. Considering how many french-fries we eat on Passover I really wanted decent ketchup but I had no choice other than Osem's Ketchup. I really didn’t enjoy their ketchup and ended up eating most of my fries without any ketchup at all

When I saw this new "Pizza Ketchup" I wanted to give it a try and see if it's an improvement over their regular product. When I tried the "Pizza Ketchup" as a dip for french-fries I did not enjoy it. It tasted too much like the original Osem Ketchup that I don't like and, in my opinion, the added spices were not the right flavor for french-fries. That should not have surprised me, it's not intended to be a dip for french-fries 

So I used it for its intended purpose and made pizza. I found the squeeze bottle to be very convenient when I was preparing my "pita pizza", as per the directions on the back of the bottle. I liked that I had more control over how much sauce I was adding and it was much neater than the other bottled pizza sauces I've tried in the past 

I found that the consistency of this "pizza ketchup" was too thick for my liking, actually much thicker than other store bought pizza sauces. I added some shredded mozzarella cheese and put it in the oven

The end result was tasty enough, granted it was nothing even close to real pizza. It was a glorified grilled cheese on a fresh, crispy toasted pita with delicious, shredded mozzarella cheese and bad pizza spiced ketchup

Osem's Pizza Ketchup is made of all natural ingredients; it has no preservatives or food coloring

Bottom Line: This new Pizza Ketchup is exactly what it claims to be, it's Osem's Ketchup with added pizza spices. Considering I don't like the taste of Osem's Ketchup It wasn't surprising that I didn’t like the taste of this new Pizza Ketchup either. I know there are many kids that love Osem's Ketchup and I think they are likely to enjoy this new version on pita with melted cheese but it's far from anything I consider pizza sauce

750gram bottle -11.99 NIS 

 Kosher Parve Badatz

Disclaimer: All items were purchased by me. No one is paying me for this review. All opinions are my own