Product review: Kitz Living Foods

Nuts, seeds and other plant foods (grains, legumes, etc.) contain anti-nutrients that can keep our bodies from digesting them properly and absorbing minerals and other micro-nutrients (for a longer explanation read this article). Cooking, soaking, sprouting and fermenting are ways to reduce the anti-nutrient content of foods. Nuts and seeds that have been soaked (usually overnight) and then dried at a low temperature are commonly known as “activated”.

Kitz Living Foods offers activated nuts and seeds and snack products made with them that are free from: gluten, wheat, dairy, yeast, eggs, soy, peanuts, sesame, fish, shellfish and cane sugar. They are raw, vegan and made from mostly organic ingredients.

We’ve tried only a couple of their wide variety of products but enough to give us the feeling that all of them are top-notch quality. We were most impressed by the sweet snacks, which are the least sweet we’ve found in the market so far. They come in 150g re-sealable bags, cut in sensibly-sized portions. Listed below are the normal and member prices in the Go Vita shop I bought them from.

The banana, date & walnut chunks are made of Australian sunflower seeds, dates, organic bananas, walnuts, organic coconut, organic raw vanilla, and organic cinnamon. These had a bit of crunch but were more on the chewy side. Great flavour and pretty filling.

The naughty but nice chocolate chunks are made of dates, Australian sunflower seeds, cashews, organic coconut, organic fair trade raw cacao nibs, organic fair trade raw cacao, organic dark agave syrup, organic raw vanilla, organic cinnamon. I like these a bit better because they were crunchier and I really like chocolate.

The savoury crackers come in 100g bags and were a bit bland IMO. We tried the Italian herb & garlic crackers a while ago and the gourmet 4 seed crackers recently. They were both very crumbly (think them as a vehicle to put stuff on them, rather than spoon stuff with them) and, as I said, a bit on the bland side. For savoury snacks, I prefer Flats.

Kitz Living Foods
Tweed Heads NSW
(07) 5536 7983
www.kitzlivingfoods.com.au

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