HEBEL & CO Pistachio Nigella Halva - 8 oz | Certified USDA Organic, Gluten Free, Kosher & Vegan

Yum It’s good I have to check out how much sugar is in there cause it’s really sweet, but it’s really good. Just have a little bit each night and you’ll be fine. It’ll satisfy you’re craving.

C' est ce produit que vous voulez pour vous et aussi offrir en cadeau! D'une onctuosité incroyable et le goût parfait j'en avais mis au congélateur pour faire déguster à ma visite mais oups ...je l'ai tout mangé si seulement le prix était moindre ce serait une gâterie hebdomadaire que je m'offriras sans hésitation. Gâtez-vous au moins une fois croyez-moi

Excellent product, I wish it was more affordable.

8 oz is more than you think. Enough for 10 people as a desert taste. Because it's so sweet it's not something you'd want to gorge on anyway. We all enjoyed it to the point of its disappearing from the plate, cut up into bite sized pieces.

I've never had halva before, nor nigella, and this seemed like a safe way to try both. In terms of texture, the first and second bites are cousin to a densely bunched bit of cotton candy, Chinese dragon beard candy, or Lucky Charms marshmallows, with some nuts. Thereafter it smooths into a nut butter-esque paste, which is a very nice mouthfeel transition and one I've really enjoyed. In terms of taste... it's only mildly sweet enough to tell you this is a sweet food and not a savory one. And that's where it gets downright *weird.* Upon eating my first bite, it tasted like the smell of something I could only identify vaguely as a salad bar at a county club. My second mouthful, I swore it reminded me of something tuna-ish, something fishy. Round and round I went, and then my fifth bite had me so confused I looked up "what does nigella taste like?" And got responses that ranged from sesame to onions - which baffled me since those are all different and distinct to my palate. So with 'onion' in mind I took another mouthful, but instead of the taste of onions I could only liken it to the way onion or everything *bagels* smell. I think this flavor combination works for some taste buds better than others. I know my sense of taste is sometimes overly sensitive to certain flavors. In my mouth, this is just very confusing - too sweet to be a savory snack, but too savory to be a sweet snack. I suspect there's something similar going on here to how some people taste soap when they eat cilantro and others don't. But I really like the texture and sweetness level, onion-fishiness aside, so I think I like halva, just not this particular flavor. And now I have a sense of how nigella can be used in cooking (savory). Honestly give it a whirl. Unless you know for certain nigella on your tongue registers at the very savory end of its flavor spectrum, you'll have a chance of either something really tasty or something really odd that's fun to experience because it's so very weird.