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

Absolutely the most delicious vegan Halva I've ever tasted! I discovered halva at our local health food store when I was a teenager, back in the 60's and was instantly smitten by the taste and texture. I've ordered this Pistachio Halva several times now and it's my favorite though the other flavors are deeelicious too! All good organic vegan ingredients which is extra important for those of us 77 or older!

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

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.

So in cold weather it is compact and in heat it kind of melts but in a good way. I like this a lot and spread it on top of my rice cakes. It’s healthy but tastes like a dessert. It’s like a sweet salty flavor. It isn’t too sweet or too salty it’s just the right amount of both. To be honest when I first tried it in the winter I didn’t really like it I was giving it away but then I gave it a chance again and took smaller pieces and instead of biting into it I kinda just let it melt in my mouth and I told my family member to do the same since she didn’t like it when she tried it first but I think the trick is to allow it to melt in your mouth. Now we both agree it’s really good when you allow it to melt in your mouth if you are going to eat it straight out the container but if you have plain snacks like plain rice cakes (similar to rice krispy but no sugar) you can add this to the top and get a good healthy treat

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.