Almondina Almond Cookies, Chocolate Cherry Flavor

Yum! Came nicely packaged, so cookies nice crunchy and tasty!

As a cancer patient with attendant treatment nausea, I was looking for something with candied ginger bits that would compare favorably to Trader Joe's Triple Ginger or Whole Foods Raincoast gingerbread crisps.There are 15 cookies in each box. Six boxes in each package. That's a total of 90 biscotti sized cookies. . Each cookie is the length of the standard biscotti. but is very thin. Pretty goodI compared it to Raincoast Gingerbread crisps.Almondina has NO salt. That's why it tasted like some nostalgic memory of my childhood in Europe. But comes from Ohio.Unfortunately it does have sugar as its third ingredient. which rings diabetic alarm bells. One serving (4crackers.34g) Total sodium 0% total carbs 20.Raincoast gingerbread crisps, neat little seasonal crackers out of British Columbia, have 75 mg of salt per 3 crackers serving. Total carbs 9g per serving. Protein 2g.Since Raincoast crisps were winter seasonal at Whole Foods I began searching for year around substitute.Despite sugar, the ginger Almondina looked promising. The first ginger Almondina I tried was sweet, flat tasting without a trace of ginger, but thick and hard. The second one I tried from the same box had nice bits of candied ginger.So ginger Almondina is an acceptable substitute flavor wise to Raincoast gingerbread crisps, assuming you check out your blood sugar and blood pressure response.I cant say whether it will have any effect on my nausea, so will keep the scopolamine patch by my ear. But these are quite tasty if a bit too sweet for my taste.

These crispy little pieces of heaven are perfect with coffee or tea in the morning. They’re kind of like a chocolate biscotti stuffed full of cherries then sliced lengthwise into four or five slices. Thin, crisp, not too sweet.

very delicious

I used to be able to find these locally but no longer can so I'm glad that I can still get them. They are wonderfully crunchy, flavorful without being overwhelming and not really sweet. The ginger variety is one of my favorites. A perfect snack when you want something a little sweet but don't want the indulgence of a traditional butter based cookie

After one bite I read the label to see if ginger was listed as an ingredient. There are tiny pieces of candied ginger. They hold up for dunking in coffee. They are full of almonds.They’re just not flavorful enough for me.

These are are crunchy, delectable cookies that come in a variety of flavors, of which, I find The Original & Gingerspice tastier than others. What I find very puzzling is that Amazon has different flavors under Amazon Prime at different times: last week it was The Original and now it is Gingerspice. Almondina also makes an assorted 8 cookie flavor giftbox but for some Amazon does not carry it, as of February 2010.Each cookie has 35 calories and the package lists the serving size as 4 cookies. For me, usually 2 cookies are filling enough and satisfy my hunger. Cookies have roasted almonds and resins. Each cookie has 5.5 gm carbohydrate approximately half of which is sugar, but the company claims it to be "All Natural". I guess they consider sugar to be natural! Biscoff Family Pack  are also delicious cookies, with 25 calorie per cookie and roughly the same amount of carbohydrates and sugar per cookie as Almondina, but they are't as filling and you end up consuming more calories. May be it is not possible to make delicious cookies with any less sugar. To give you perspective and comparison, Oreo Cookies have double the sugar and carbohydrate and each serving has 160 calories; and they are not filling so you end up consuming a lot more than one serving at a time. I have't found any other delicious cookies with as low carbohydrate content as Almondina. For me, they make a very healthy snack that satiates my hunger and craving for food.

Kids like them!