Lounik African Kola Nuts 2 Lobes- 16 oz/450g

All the Kola Nut have 2 face. They keep all the others for themselves.

It's pretty easy to see why Kola nuts are so polarizing. The taste is bitter beyond anything else I've had before. But after a minute or two of (at times, vigorous) chewing, the taste completely changes. It reminds me a lot of how miracle fruit is. It really does taste like Coca-Cola once you've chewed long enough and you can taste the 'juice'. Just getting to that point is the hard part.These nuts aren't the freshest around, so they've got quite the hard outer layer you've gotta get through first. I didn't find any mold amongst my bag, but given the state of these, I wouldn't be surprised if other bags have reached that point. This small bag costing about 30 bucks is already a bit hard of a pill to swallow. But when you realize that what you're getting is far from fresh, it's hard to justify the price.However, I find Kola nuts more effective than anything else at delivering caffeine. It could be the caffeine content itself, or the way that Kola nuts deliver caffeine is just much more direct than other sources. Or it could be both. The caffeine boost I feel from these nuts is on par with that of caffeine pills and caffeine gums. It almost makes the bitter beginning taste and price worth it for me. Almost.

These Lounik Organic Shop African Kola Nuts came in a nicely sealed bag. The nuts are pretty moist but the flavor is pretty bitter. Definitely not for everyone if you never tried this kind of nut before. It might be better if you blend it with other ingredients.

I did not enjoy eating these raw, it tasted very reminiscent of trying to eat fresh potatoes raw. Extremely earthy and quite hard, I had to slice off chunks to be able to try consuming them.Does give a little kick, but I'm sure it would be more edible if you reduced these is a sauce pot to a syrup, which I don't have time for. Can't say the product is bad, just not for myself.

The nuts look nothing like the photo on the bag. Instead of being pink, they are a brown color. When you cut them in half they are not consistent in color or texture. We tried a bit of both the browned one and the white one and the white was softer but still crunchy, and very bitter and unpleasant. The brown was really bad tasting and was spit out immediately.Towards the bottom of the bag there were some that seemed to have mold on them, but not being sure if that was a normal look for them it is hard to be sure.

LOUNIK organic African kola nuts 16 oz. I’ve never had these before but was excited to try them. The bag took forever to come, like a month. It’s large with a resealable zipper but I doubt you’ll need that. Inside, they don’t look anything like the picture. They’re not soft and pink and yummy-looking, but hard, brown, and covered with mold. Would not recommend. Went straight in the trash. Not a pleasant experience.

I waited a little while to open my bag of Kola nuts, and this may have been a mistake. These are apparently "fresh" kola nuts, they are not dried or preserved, and thus needed to be eaten very quickly.The quality seems good, but I'm not sure what the shelf life is for fresh kola nuts.I chewed a couple and they had a nice bitter taste and energizing (caffeinated) effects. I did notice a couple that were slightly fuzzy and looked like the beginnings of mold.Overall - good quality, but use them quick. I would probably go with powder in the future, unless I knew I would be using them immediately.

I wasn't familiar with these, so I wasn't sure what they would be like. The package itself seems fine for them, and they arrived perfectly fine. They didn't have quite the flavor I expected (I thought maybe they would be sweeter), but someone who likes kola nuts would probably be happy buying these. They just weren't for me.

Kola can only be divided into 2. Threw the product away as it doesn’t suit my needs.