4.3
80% of reviewers would recommend to a friend
FFUPs
4.3 • 91 Reviews
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4.3
80% of reviewers would recommend to a friend
FFUPs earns polarized reviews: many find the airy-crunchy corn puffs highly snackable with inventive flavors like Unambiguous Cinnamon Toast, Grocery Store Cheddar, and Professional Salt & Vinegar, while others say the taste skews one-note or subdued and prefer classic Cheetos. Reviewers praise the fun, fully stuffed packaging and satisfying texture, but flag inconsistencies—stale quickly after opening, mealy texture for some, uneven “flavor dust,” and divisive sweet flavors (especially Hot Chocolate).
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Sooooo good. I love the minimalist vibe of the bag and the attitude of the brand. I tried both sour cream and onion and salt and vinegar. Both were delicious! Can't wait to try the rest of the flavors
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More flavors!!
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I really, really, really wanted to love these. But, something about the flavors just didn't work for me and the texture felt a little mealy. My kids absolutely loved the cinnamon sugar flavor because they were like "little churros" but mostly they were a swing and a miss for all the adults that snacked on them.
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I think the flavors need a little more oomph and the texture could be more crisp.
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Grocery Store Cheddar 9/10 🫡 Semi-Historic Sour Cream & Onion 7.5/10 🙂 Professional Salt & Vinegar 5.5/10 😐 Unambiguous Cinnamon Toast 0/10 🤢
I tried the ffull ffupping lineup at Archetypes + Thingtesting popup in NYC. I previously purchased a box of their grocery store cheddar flavor. First, I want to say that I respect FFUPS for taking some swings with their brand and product direction. The brand seems to go out of its way to be non-persuasive in an ironic way. The flavors are really bold too: salt and vinegar, sour cream and onion, hot chocolate, cinnamon toast. I don't recommend the product, though. Their cheddar flavor felt indistinguishable from mainstream options, just pricier and with more irony on the bag. Hot chocolate flavor feels like it's missing something and actually ends up being a bit bland. Cinnamon toast is honestly tasty and pretty well-balanced, but I still am not really into a corn puff as a sweet snack medium. Salt and vinegar is big and bold and might be a winner for S&V enthusiasts. Sour cream and onion was a bit forgettable. It was admittedly fun trying them all. But I won't be buying the product again.
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I think the brand's direction is confusing. I think they might do better targeting sweet flavors or savory crossover snack flavors, but maybe not both. If I were head of FFUPS Flav Dev, I'd be copying Combos flavors with expedience, starting with pizza.
4y ago
I love the packaging. It’s fun. They are real and not trying to clutter the packaging with a ton of claims. They say legit they are not healthy so you already know when you open the bag this is a snack for fun. You don’t eat this for any nutritional benefit.
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I found that it got stale within a couple of hours. It didn’t really hold up overnight.
4y ago
They weren't as crunchy as I would have liked, and some of the flavors were sub-par. The cinnamon sugar one was awesome, but the grocery store cheddar lacked the punchy cheese taste that competitive brands have. These also stuck to my teeth and the roof of the mouth.
I tried the Sour Cream & Onion and I thought they were great. Loved the flavor and texture. The Hot Chocolate and Cinnamon Toast sound like flavors I'd be interested in trying. I would eat these again, but I don't feel like this is something I'd make a point to buy online because it's not wildly different than other in store products and not a snack I'd normally have on hand. Similarly, I don't know that I'd pay a premium for them in store, especially if they were right next to one of the old, boring brands.
Honestly don't love the taste of these! And the brand + packaging confuses me. I get very weird vibes from ffups.
4y ago
One of the weirdest products I have tried. I don't know why I would buy this over a brand name product.
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Might be a hot take, but the branding is a huge turn off to me. It looks scammy, and I never would have chosen it off a grocery store shelf if I didn't receive it for free.
The bags are fab and the taste is even better. The sweet ones were SO GOOD! So weird, but so good. Plus, the name is SO FUN TO SAY!
Love the branding and the grocery store cheddar flavor is decent. Unfortunately I really didn't like the other flavors. I will say that the cinnamon one definitely tasted exactly as advertised.
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I would recommend nixing the hot cocoa flavor and if it's necessary to keep a sweet flavor to stick with the cinnamon one. The sour cream and onion flavor needs some more "oomph" I could barely taste anything!
4y ago
Branding and packaging is fun and spot on. I love the flavor names. Our house enjoyed all of the options, both sweet and savory.
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Can't wait to see what flavors they come out with next
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4y ago
The flavors are all really delicious (and accurately named). I can't imagine myself buying these for myself regularly because the pricing just doesn't workout.... the cheddar ones are just as good as cheeto puffs 🤷🏽♀️ super fun brand and website and fun to interact with
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pricing,,,,
FFUPs have the characteristic texture of a puff, but where they really excel is in the flavor. For one, the available flavors are delicious and rarely found in puff form (other than cheddar). The salt and vinegar puff blew my mind! All of the flavors were good, but there were a couple standouts. The Grocery Store Cheddar has such a great cheesy flavor that tasted more like real cheddar than other commonly found puffs. The flavor coating on the puffs was even and thick, which was great. These were by far my favorite and the hardest to put down (definitely finished a bag in one sitting). My second favorite was probably the salt and vinegar. I love this flavor combination in general, but have only really experienced it with chips. It tasted just as I had hoped, the flavor was bold and maybe a bit much at times, but honestly that's how I like it. Sour cream and onion was good, but I did wish this one had a stronger flavor. The more I ate the better it got flavor wise, but in comparison to the other two savory flavors it wasn't as strong. I was a bit thrown off by the sweet flavors, as I generally think savory/cheesy for puffs, but these ended up being good. I personally preferred the hot chocolate flavor as I felt the cinnamon flavor was a bit too sweet.
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The sour cream and onion and hot chocolate flavors could use a bit more seasoning, but overall these were very delicious!
4y ago
Oh wow. These are very addicting. Somehow my favorites were the sweet flavors which I thought initially would creep me out but no. In fact, my husband has requested that I order an entire case of the "unambiguous cinnamon toast." They are that good.
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I don't really know if there's room for improvement here besides the higher price point. But honestly - I'll probably pay it, especially for the Cinnamon ones because dang.
I am obsessed with the brand's not healthy mantra as not everything needs to be better-for-you in the snack category! The cheddar and sour cream and onion flavors are my standouts, so great to have for road trips and on the beach!
3y ago
Classic foundational flavors and love that they flipped better-for-you snacks on it's head. I just want to indulge! A+ product, would Ffups again.
4y ago
Such a fun packaging design, love the straight forward blunt messaging. Love the variety of flavors offered.
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They are so crunchy and flavorful! Very fun to eat and read all the flavor names, so good! Loved the grocery store cheddar flavor and salt vinegar one the most.
Loved all of the flavors, especially the cinnamon one. Super easy to eat and they names are so funny!
Honestly disappointing and kind of a weird pack size? Appreciate the sweet flavors but meh
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Smaller packs