Tesco Finest Peppermint Dream Popcorn with White Chocolate

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tesco finest peppermint dream popcorn

Tesco recently launched a new range of fancy popcorn flavours in their Finest range, from Mango Chilli & Coconut, to Strawberry & Dark Chocolate, Fiery Ginger and Apple, and this lush sounding Toffee Nut Latte Popcorn (reviewed by the lovely Marmey aka One Treat). I really want to try those, but instead I opted for this Peppermint Dream variety when I saw the range reduced to £1.50 recently in Tesco.

This flavour is described as "Peppermint flavoured toffee popcorn with dried mint leaves and Belgian white chocolate", and is suitable for vegetarians, as well as being gluten free. However it's made in an environment that uses nuts, so may not be suitable for nut allergy sufferers.

tesco finest peppermint dream popcorn

When I opened the bag I was a bit surprised to see the specks of mint leaves stuck to the popcorn...I know these had been advertised in the description but I didn't quite expect it to look like something savory!

tesco finest peppermint dream popcorn

Despite the slightly of-putting green specks, I took a bite. The popcorn is very sweet with a nice peppermint flavour, but the white chocolate doesn't blend so well with it, it seems more like an afterthought and is a bit too sweet overall combined with the toffee. I think they should have just used mint flavoured white chocolate instead of the toffee. The actual mint leaves bring a garden mint flavour to the popcorn, which to be honest was a little weird. I'm used to having garden mint on my Sunday dinner, not on sweet popcorn.

Overall, this Tesco Finest Peppermint Dream popcorn is a bit of a mixed bag (quite literally!) It's not awful but I think they just tried to make it too fancy and lost something in the process. A simple, minty chocolate coated popcorn would have worked so much better...if you need a new product development manager, Tesco, call me ;)

7 out of 10. 

Comments

  1. Unknown4 December 2016 at 17:04

    Disagree. I think the white choc works perfectly with it. This is one of the best things I've ever tasted.

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  2. Unknown15 November 2018 at 12:17

    It was gorgeous, shame it's being discontinued. Best popcorn I have tasted.

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