3.9
63% of reviewers would recommend to a friend
RIND Snacks
3.9 • 32 Reviews
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3.9
63% of reviewers would recommend to a friend
RIND Snacks earns mixed reviews: the brand delights many with chewy, peel-on dried fruit that feels wholesome and flavorful (standouts include Straw-Peary, Piña Colada Remix, and apple chips), yet quality varies by flavor and texture can skew leathery, tough, or bitter—especially with oranges, watermelon, and some tropical blends. Reviews praise the upcycling mission, fiber-rich ingredients, and variety, while calling out inconsistency, occasional blandness, and off-putting chew that some find nearly inedible.
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4mo ago
This is the most disgusting thing I’ve ever tasted. It looks burnt. Can’t reach customer service. Never buy their product.

1y ago
This Straw-Peary blend has quickly become one of my favorite snacks. I like that they are chewy unlike that gross freeze-dried fruit, and there is a lot of variety with the mix of fruits. It is also a really sustainable snack since their production helps reduce food wsste.

If I like the fruit I will like RIND's dried version of it. I love that their ingredients are literally just the fruits. So many brands add sugars to their dried fruit and honestly I think the fruit itself has enough natural sweetness, why add to it with unwanted added sugars. RIND gets this and I love the products they sell. I just wish they were a little bit cheeper.

I have mostly overall liked the snacks from this brand. The straw-peary and peach snacks have been great. The coconut crisps have been okay, but the tropical bag was so gross to me. I do support the brand's mission of upcycling.

YUMMMM! This bag of Piña Colada Rind was so good. It’s the perfect snack of sweet, crunchy and chewy. I’m thinking of mixing a bag of this with a bag of Lesser Evil Piña Colada Popcorn for some seriously good snacking at my next game night!

2y ago
I *really* wanted to love this product, but try as I might there was just nothing special about them. They tasted like any of the many non-sweetened, dried fruit snacks I have tried in the past. Not bad, but nothing special, even with the peels (one of their selling points) included. The Orchard blend had an interesting mix of fruits—persimmon, peach, and apple—though nothing stood out as particularly flavorful. The packaging was also a bit all over the place: every inch had some message about how good the product is and how the company gives back to schools—it even included a sentence describing the origin of the word persimmon! Wish they had put that much energy into making the product itself more flavorful.



I like all the different variety of Rind snacks. I also love the idea behind it! I love the ingredients and the packaging. I however am not wild about the texture. I’m not sure why but I can’t really get past that!

The rind mix is perfect on the go snack. I love the variety of fruits in the bags. It goes well with my nit mix. I feel like it can be a little chewy more like fruit jerky but it’s flavorful and a fun way to get in fruit

Rind has really great fruit snacks! I love that they use up all the fruit & peel! I love snacks that are sustainable and low waste. The small bags reseal, which is great so they don't get stale, but the larger bag of peach chips does not reseal. That's the only bad thing.

RIND Snacks are a delicious and nutritious way to enjoy fruit with the peel on—full of fiber, flavor, and zero added sugar. I love the natural sweetness and chewy texture, and it’s great that nothing goes to waste. Some pieces can be a bit tough or uneven in texture, but overall it's a satisfying, clean snack I feel good about eating. Four stars for sustainability, quality, and great taste!
I picked up the orchard one because I saw it had persimmons (I love dried persimmons and they're hard to find anywhere), but the taste wasn't really what I was hoping for. Unlike the usual dried fruits, the texture of these is very chewy, but maybe a bit too chewy since I got annoyed at how long it was taking to chew the apple which was basically flavorless. Overall, they're alright.
4y ago
So good! I really like their Straw-perry flavor.
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The Coco-melon flavor was a little gross to me. Dried watermelon is almost a little too leathery for mew, I think because watermelon has so much moisture in it to start.
Dried fruit so delish
3y ago
Love their apple chips, yes they're expensive but totally worth it. Perfect for my mindless snacking habit lol
The fact that the brand keeps the peel on and uses fruits you don’t generally see in the dried fruit section at the grocery store makes it feel like an elevated experience. It’s delicious and I don’t feel like I’m effectively eating candy like I do with most dried fruit. The skin can add a bitter taste, such with oranges, but I enjoy it and it makes me feel like an adult. Adults like bitter things.
I was excited to try these but I found they had an undesirable chewy texture. I tried the nectarine ones and I gave them away to a friend because I just didn’t want to reach for these in my pantry. You could maybe salvage them in some granola but I think there are better dried fruits out there. I wanted to like this product because it is not overly sweetened like many dried fruits are but these just weren’t it.
It's taken me a while to track down each of the different flavors of RIND. But I finally did! I absolutely love the strawberry pear one! I literally ate it in one sitting and continue to get this flavor whenever I see it. For the other flavors, I wasn't really the biggest fan. But I thought it was very cool that there were so many different fruits that they offered!
1y ago
I love dried fruit, but Rind Snacks are a major letdown—rock-hard and barely edible. It feels like you're chewing on the discarded scraps after all the good, soft parts are gone. Definitely not worth the dental risk.
1y ago
I really like the idea of these and was excited to try but they disappointed. So dry and has zero flavor or taste to it. The packaging is fun but that's about it. There is definitely room for improvement.
1y ago
The mission of this brand is very cool and it is an innovative concept. I hope that more brands take up upcycling soon as this is a great method to reduce food waste when it is done properly-go Rind!! Would love to see compostable packaging in the future :)