Bottom Line: The Chex Mix Max’d Buffalo Ranch have a nice Buffalo sauce kick and offer a spicy snack alternative to chips.
When looking for something spicy to snack on, sometimes you get tired of chips. But no need to worry there because the Chex Mix has you covered. They have quite a number of snack mix flavors available including their Hot & Spicy as well as the variant on that with a ghost chili kick (more on those here). And if you do some searching, you can find the Buffalo Ranch “Max’d” version which delivers a bite as well.
They bill these as having “two flavors, one intense taste”. They are basically Chex Mix snacks with some Ranch seasoning, but the twist is the “Max’d” pieces which are heavily seasoned with what amounts to a Buffalo sauce frosting. (Yeah, that makes my mouth water too!) The pieces included in the mix are Chex cereal, pretzels, and rye chips. Only the Chex cereal pieces get the Max’d boost, and probably two out of three of those have the regular seasoning.
The non-maxed bits are very similar in taste to standard Chex Mix, but with that twist of Ranch. The Max’d pieces have that tanginess and heat that you expect from Buffalo sauce in an intense coating that covers each piece. And there are enough of those in there that you get at least one in every small handful you grab. Those are around the Medium heat level, so your overall heat experience will depend on how many of those you eat at a time.
I prefer the Hot & Spicy and ghost chili versions of the Chex Mix, but this Max’d Buffalo Ranch is a nice change of pace when I can find them. Finding them is the challenge, though. Usually, I can only locate these in convenience stores, and usually only while on the road. The Chex Mix website indicates that you can get them from Walmart and Target, but I have not seen them at my Target and I don’t frequent Walmart enough to remember to check for them. But if you do see a bag and you are hankering for something to munch on with a kick, I recommend giving these a try.
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Ingredients: Yellow Corn Meal, Enriched Flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), Whole Wheat, Maltodextrin, Vegetable Oil (palm kernel, soybean, canola, rice bran, and/or palm), Sugar, Whey, Rye Flour. Contains 2 % or less Of: Salt, Buttermilk, Hot Sauce (Cayenne pepper, vinegar, salt, garlic), Corn Starch, Dried Onion, Dried Sour Cream (cream, nonfat milk, cultures), Soy Lecithin, Sodium Diacetate, Color (red 40 lake, paprika extract, caramel color), Spices, Onion Powder, Natural Flavors, Monoglycerides, Yeast, Baking Soda, Yeast Extract, Yellow Corn Flour, Citric Acid, Vinegar, Malt Syrup, Fumaric Acid, Dried Soy Sauce (soybeans, wheat, salt)
Serving Size: ½ Cup (30g)
Calories: 140
Fat: 4.5g (2g Sat/0 Trans)
Protein: 2g
Carbs: 22g
Sodium: 260mg