Snack Review: Diana’s Bananas Banana Babies

I would argue that I am a person of refined tastes. I am able to appreciate the perfectly simple pleasure of an unadorned potato chip without extra flavor powders sullying its spudly purity. I scorn fancy ice cream flavors with seventeen kinds of chunks and swirls mixed in. I of course feel this shows my culinary sophistication, rather than being evidence that I have never outgrown the three year old’s dread of having different foods touch on my plate.

One combination that always works for me, though, is banana and chocolate, whether it’s that Starbuck’s Vivanno thingy that they aren’t allowed to call smoothies, or else my own frozen banana concoction – which has taught me the virtues of the frozen banana. So I was attracted to these, although the name Banana Babies seemed a bit gruesome. And they didn’t let me down.

The chocolate is not perfect, as the chocolate on an ice cream bar almost never is, because they have to add some extra fat to it to get the manufacturing process to work. But it’s quite good enough.

The banana part is just a little hard to eat at first. You should probably try to be a bit more patient than me and take it out of the freezer for a couple minutes before you eat it. But if you don’t, it’s no big deal. It is definitely edible. The website makes a fuss out of their patented freezing process, which seems mysterious to me – I am curious to go freeze a banana and eat it without putting it in a frozen banana smoothie just to see if there is a difference.

These are also sold as full-size bananas instead of half-banana Babies. I think that would be way too much chocolate; unless they figure out how to make the coating thinner, I’m sticking with this size.

The website trumpets that they are the “World’s Best Chocolate Dipped Bananas!” Since I have never even seen another kind, I can’t address this claim. It also lauds their nutritive value. Bananas are indeed good for you, although it seems sort of cheating to take credit for that. And yeah, dark chocolate is the latest miracle food.

I would take all that with a grain of salt, but this is definitely a much less guilt-inducing treat than many. Frozen bananas are an awful lot like ice cream for something that’s so good for you. So if you want to take advantage of that miraculous banana property without having to wash the blender after making my smoothie recipe, grab one of these.

• Diana’s Bananas Website

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