Time for tea: Aimee's Livin Magic Dill Kimchi Crackers Review

Image borrowed from http://www.vivapure.co.uk/

Rating: 9/10, available in 145g (16 crackers) packs from Vivapure for £6.49 (+ p&p), and Aimee's Livin Magic store for $8.50 (+ p&p).

Before we get into the review we'd like to give you a bit of info about Aimee's Livin Magic. ALM are a U.S. based small company that sources their ingredients locally ensuring that everything is fairtrade and organic.
One of the things that we LOVE about Vivapure is that they stock a lot of great items that are hard to get hold of in the U.K. and these crackers are no exception.

Comprising of cultured vegetables (a great source of enzymes, beneficial bacteria and B vitamins), sprouted sunflower seeds and almonds (take a look at this wiki entry for the low down on sprouting), flax seeds, dill and two members of the allium family, it is safe to say that these crackers are good for you.

Kimchi is a spicy Korean pickle that has many variants, and can be quite spicy. For those of you like L, who has trouble with spicy food, then these crackers might not sit too comfortably. But Em and I thought that the crackers were mild, we ate them with some olive tapenade and soup for dinner and tahini as a snack.

The overall taste of these crackers is mild and savoury with a slight cayenne pepper kick, which makes them quite versatile. We only had 1 problem with these crackers and that was they were quite crumbly, not very much so, but it was noticeable. We're more accustomed to making our own buckwheat crackers and we prefer that crunchy texture. We tried dehydrating these crackers a bit more, but there was no getting away from the crumblyness (now officially a word).

Now this is not to say that we wouldn't eat them again, but it is something that we would have to consider before buying them. L adds that they are too spicy for her, but she hates spicy foods.

If you are interested in learning more about cultured vegetables and how to make some of your own (as well as learning how to make cultured fruit mixes, beers, wines and dairy products) check out Sandor Ellix Katz' "Wild fermentation". It's a fab book that we use on a weekly basis. Dr Ben Kim's website includes recipes for kimchi (we love his cucumber kimchi recipe), and this post over at the nourished kitchen lists a number of cultured food recipes.

Vivapure seems to be the only place listing these crackers as "sprouted dill kimchi crackers". These are the same crackers as listed above, we checked!

Ingredients: Sprouted sunflower seeds,flax seeds, sprouted almonds, garlic, kimchi (cabbage, leek, garlic, ginger, unrefined sea salt, cayenne, fresh chili), dill, onion granules, garlic granules, Maine sea salt.