Bigs Sunflower Seeds promotes themselves as having larger seeds than other brands. While it's not a huge difference, I've found their claim to be accurate on average. What really drew my attention to their brand, though, were the brand name flavors they create. While I haven't had a chance to try them all (they're really hard to find in this part of the country for some reason), they include Vlasic Dill Pickle, Frank's RedHot Buffalo Wing, and Bacon Salt flavors. They also have a basic Salted and Roasted, as well as a Zesty Ranch, which I've tried.
A couple of weeks ago the Big's facebook page asked people to list which flavor they'd like to try for a random drawing giveaway for a bag of seeds. My name was selected and I got a chance to try the RedHot Buffalo Wing flavor for free.
I think I set too high of an expectations about how accurately they'd be able to recreate the taste of a sauce as a sunflower seed flavoring. There's something very different about the flavor of a sauce compared to a dry powder form. According to the ingredients, they've combined a dry form of the buffalo wing flavor, dry standard cayenne flavor, actual buffalo sauce, and added in some garlic and ground habanero peppers.
The flavor is certainly hot and spicy, so hot sauce fans should enjoy it. The flavor of the pepper comes through, and the vinegar is evident, but perhaps not as strong as in the sauce from a bottle. One cannot discount the fact that the nutty flavor of the seed with the cayenne flavor is going result in something different than chicken smothered in Frank's and butter.
It may not be perfect, but for no one who likes sunflower seeds and Frank's is going to want to pass these up.
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