This iteration called Trader Joe's Fig Cookies appeared about two years ago if memory serves correctly. The product has been repackaged and renamed. I believe there are fewer cookies in this pack, but this one is also a tad cheaper at $1.99 for about a dozen cookies. They taste roughly the same, but for some reason, these tend to stick together like they've been glued to one another with sticky fig juice. They're crumbly, soft, and vaguely fig newton-esque. I guess I'd buy these again just to avoid the bad stuff in Nabisco Fig Newtons.
The top ingredients include: unbleached enriched flour, cane sugar, figs, tapioca syrup, palm oil, and agave syrup. Calorie-wise, we're looking at 150 per two cookies. You'll get 3.5 grams of fat per serving, 1.5 of which is saturated fat. For full ingredients and nutrition information, please click here.
Three stars from me for Trader Joe's Fig Cookies. Sonia gives them three stars as well.
Bottom line: 6 out of 10.
Bottom line: 6 out of 10.
I don't think there's a meaningful health difference. Partially hydrogenated oils have been banned for over 4 years. HFCS isn't worse than most other sugars, but it isn't in Newtons anyway. If anything, it's plausible that Newtons are slightly healthier due including some whole wheat flour.
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