Cricket Bites: 3-Pack of Assorted Flavor Edible Insects (Made in Portland, Oregon) by Cricket Flours

These pouches are quite small. Still, each provided about one small snack. The bugs initially taste like roasted pumpkin seeds, but they leave an astringent or dusty sort of aftertaste. It may be useful to know that they don’t have most of their appendages. So eating them is a bit like eating seeds.

Purchased these to eat on my YT channel with the kids. I was kind of upset by the small packages, but we got over it pretty quick once we started eating them. Once you get past the texture, they make for a decent little snack. Spicy Cayenne - Not much flavor...Pretty bland, but gave a nice burn in the aftertaste. Buffalo Wing - Pretty good! Kind of sweet, but tasted decent overall. My youngest loved this flavor. Original - Tasted like a saltine cracker. Not bad. One of the best of the bunch. Bacon - My personal favorite. It tasted exactly like the charred bits that come off a piece of well-cooked bacon. Absolutely delicious! Cheesy Ranch - More like foot. Tasted like a dirty sock smells after a hard day of hiking. This flavor should be abandoned. This flavor should be banished. This is not a flavor meant for human consumption. Animals will avoid this. Flies won't even bother investigating. As a last resort in a survival situation, I would rather not survive than eat cheesy ranch. It was that bad. Haha Price - Please...Come on...Really?

I ate a couple of the cricket packages tonight. The BBQ and Buffalo sauce. I thought that it was delicious! The crickets were very nutty (my first time). I really enjoyed it! Now, my wife's reaction was not the same!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 She basically ran away from me when I was crunching away!! I walked towards her and she just kept saying, "Nope, no, no nope!!" For me, great product and delicious!!!

I know they're insects, and I want to like insects in food as they are healthy alternatives to red or even lean meats, but this is just bland. Decent novelty I guess, but if you are looking for a 'gateway bug' that doesn't turn you off in its blandness, try buffalo worms or buffalo worm powder (much more protein than mealworms and a light and nice flavor compared to crickets), or waxworms (sweet and are good for cookies, though they are fatty). You could use buffalo worms in more foods since the flavor is lighter but still high in protein, but they are not as easy to find as crickets or mealworms. You even could breed them if you could provide high heat and regular kitchen scraps, turn your leftovers into high protein meal?, sign me up. If you're adventurous, you could try black soldier fly larva or even cockroaches; they surprisingly taste about as decent as crickets when farmed and not hunted from your trash bin.

Needed these for a class project and they delivered. Gross, but worked perfectly. Flavors would probably be great if they weren't on crickets. Whether for a joke or if you really care about alternate proteins these are the best you can get. The best part is that they are not from overseas. I read a lot of reviews about crickets from overseas with fungus, mold and smells and who knows what else. These are from Portland, Oregon and were top quality.

This was the first time I've ever eaten bugs. I bought this product because there was a variety of flavors and I figured if I liked at least one of them it'd be money well-spent. My hopes were not met, though. I tried the "original" first to have something to compare the rest to. They didn't taste bad, but they weren't really good either. The flavor was a little smokey and the initial bite had a nice crunch, but the cricket quickly took on a texture similar to sawdust. The other flavors were very lackluster, with no real difference in flavor than the original. The Cayenne flavor had a bit of heat, but it was still accompanied by the "original" flavor. If I had to pick a favorite out of the five I received, it would have to be the buffalo flavor. It is the only one that had any noticeable flavor difference, but it was still a very mild flavor.

I am an educator, and for the last 5 years I have taught a end of the year unit on Entamophagy. My fifth graders always have a blast. This was my first year to buy/try this brand, and it far exceeds it's "not to be named" competitor. The seasoning tastes fresher, and the insects were whole for the most part, not just bits. It felt more like an enjoyable snack, and less like a novelty. Hope you love them as much as I and ALL 48 of my students did!