Is all Boom Chicka Pop vegan?

Like your favorite treat at the county fair, each 1-ounce bag of Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP Sweet & Salty Kettle Corn Popcorn is packed with flavor. Enjoy this whole-grain, non-GMO popcorn as a vegan, gluten-free snack that's made with real, simple ingredients. This salty and sweet kettle corn has 140 calories per bag and 0 grams trans fat per serving. Each bag of popcorn has delicious, pre-popped kettle corn that's ready to eat right out of the bag. Keep this flavored popcorn on hand for road trips, office parties, after-school snacks, movie nights and other joyful snacking occasions. Order a snack-size bag of Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP Popcorn for a pop of positivity anytime.

Before we get into the review, the important question – is BoomChickaPop Vegan? The Answer is YES! Well, mostly. Some flavors are not vegan but they are pretty obvious which ones (like the White Cheddar Popcorn). The Original and the Sweet and Salty Kettle Corn are vegan (along with other flavors I mention below). But great news is that it’s a vegan popcorn…so now onward …!

BoomChickaPop popcorn started in Dan and Angie Bastian’s garage as a way to instill hard work and fun with their family while creating a healthy snack. The company and popcorn has literally BOOMED into mainstream snacking. BoomChickaPop is committed to snacks that taste amazing but made with simple, wholesome ingredients to keep the joy in snacking while eating healthy along the way. The bright bags are meant to symbolize all the fun, colorful love that goes into the popcorn and snacking process.

BoomChickaPop popcorn comes in fourteen flavors with six of them being vegan. So, have no fear fellow vegans, we’re invited to the snacking popcorn party with great flavors including: Sea Salt Popcorn, Sweet and Salty Popcorn, Light Kettle Corn, Salted Caramel Popcorn (yep, its’ vegan!), Sweet Barbeque Popcorn, and Chili Lime Flavored Popcorn.

When it comes to the vegan snacking world, there are few wholesome and simple snacking foods that don’t involve fruits or baby carrots. BoomChickaPop Popcorn is carefully curated and is one of the most widely available convenient vegan snack options out there. While there are a lot of plant-based flavor options for BoomChickaPop popcorn, I wanted to look at what happens when opposites come together… aka the Salty and Sweet Popcorn. Could this be the perfect flavor combination? Try a bag or two and then decide. Or keep reading for our review!

Taste Experience – 15 out of 10

Opening the bag and you’re greeted with the nostalgic, familiar smell of popcorn. The popcorn kernels look freshly popped and I’m surprised more kernels don’t get smashed in packaging and transportation. As I reach in for my first handful, the BoomChickaPop Sweet and Salty Kettle Corn is not as sticky like most commercial kettle popcorns. The lack of stickiness made me wonder how sweet it would actually be.

Turns out perfectly sweet annnnd perfectly salty! My first handful is a taste explosion! I’m not entirely sure how BoomChickaPop does it but some kernels are sweeter while some are saltier but of course they are all plant-based and vegan. Each bite creates the best blissful world in which opposites not only attract but fall in love and live happily ever after. The kernels are crunchy and light and airy at the same time. The whole experience is quite simple…I mean, it’s only popcorn but perhaps it’s the simplicity and high quality ingredients that make this popcorn oh so delicious and way better than any competitor or if I tried to make my own vegan kettle corn (let’s be real).

This vegan snack is a highly sharable but BoomChickaPop Sweet and Salty Popcorn is so tasty that it makes me want to keep it all to myself because it blows my popcorn-loving mind. I enjoy it at work, at the beach, on long road trips, and even as a part of cute themed vegan food gifts. I eat it for a mid-morning snack, afternoon snack, and as an evening snack with vegan chocolate chips! Popcorn is so versatile and well liked that I frequently bring it to last minute omnivorous parties and it’s ALWAYS a huge hit. If you’re ready to hit a homerun with this plant-based popcorn, buy a bag today and see what I mean!

Nutrition – 9 out of 10

Let’s start with the ingredients on this one…. Non-GMO popcorn, sunflower oil, cane sugar, and sea salt. That’s it. Totally it. Nutrition is more than just the numbers on the food label. Vegan nutrition involves looking at the ingredients, choosing consciously considering the environmental and personal impact of a food. Because BoomChickaPop uses minimal ingredients, this limits the carbon footprint and increases the wholesome simplicity food.

In a two cup serving of BoomChickaPop (which may not be enough!), you’ll find 140 calories with 70 calories coming from fat. The sunflower oil is the source of the fat and over half of the calories as fat is more calorically dense than protein or carbohydrates. There are eight grams of total fat in a two cup serving with only a half a gram being saturated fat. This tells me as a Plant-Based Registered Dietitian that the sunflower oil (the only ingredient with a significant amount of fat) has a healthy distribution of polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fat.

BoomChickaPop Sweet and Salty Popcorn is both sweet and salty but only slightly. There are 18 grams of total carbohydrate in two cups with eight grams of sugar compared to over double that in most convenience plant-based and conventional snack options. There are also two grams of plant-based fiber in each serving to help control hunger and stabilize blood sugar levels.

The sodium content is an appropriate amount for a snack food with each serving of vegan BoomChickPop Sweet and Salty Popcorn providing 110 milligrams. The American Heart Association recommends adults consume less than 1500 milligrams of sodium per day.

Popcorn is naturally a good source of iron and in each two cup serving, BoomChickaPop Sweet and Salty Popcorn provides 4% of your iron needs for the day. Whether you choose this vegan popcorn snack for its oh-so-deliciousness or the wholesome nutrition, buy a bag for your next snack to satisfy hunger while snacking happy!

The Non-Vegan Review – 15.1 out of 10 (take that veggie wife)

WARNING! WARNING! This popcorn from Boom Chicka Pop is incredibly addictive. I’ve tried them all, blow, shrooms, crank, molly, smack, dots, and bud and none of them compare to the addictive power of sweet’n’salty Boom Chicka Pop. Just know, if you buy this popcorn, you won’t be able to put it down and you’ll forever be buying more. There, I’ve warned you. So, with that out of the way, all who are interested in reaching nirvana must buy this popcorn. No joke, Boom Chicka Pop’s sweet and salty kettle corn is the best freaking snack ever made in the galaxy. Perhaps the best in the universe. Buy the big bag of Boom Chicka Pop on Amazon and thank me later. Non-vegan husband out.

Parting Thoughts

Holy smokes! This popcorn is dangerously addictive yet made with simple wholesome ingredients I love.  It’s a great gluten-free, whole grain snack packed with fiber to satisfy your hunger. Boom Chicka Pop has nailed the salty sweet ratio in this kettle corn – not too sweet, not too salty but super tasty! It’s hard to miss the fun and bright colorful purple bag that will be gone before you know it. When you purchase a bag (or five) on Amazon, prepare for people to start clamoring around you for a bite of bliss in a bag.

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