Food In The Fort

Coconut rolls are a sweet staple of Mexican candy. You’ll find them in a dizzying array of shapes and colors much like the ubiquitous gummi. There’s no particular reason why we selected the two we did for comparison and we recommend that you try them all because they’re quite tasty treats.

Delicias del Triunfo has concocted a marvelous confection of shredded coconut, sugar and oil in a handy stick. What more could you want? A perfect candy except for the thoughtless wrapper design. The plastic wrapper is sort of tucked into the ends of the roll in such a way that makes detaching it from the candy problematic; little bits of plastic easily get stuck to the candy. Still, if you can avoid ingesting the wrapper bits - and what’s a little cellophane among friends? - this one’s a real winner.

La Coculense has managed against all odds to squeeze several extra helpings of sugar, artificial flavoring and yellow food dye into this compact coconut bar. While coconut lovers will like this one, we think Rollo Coco has the edge in the tight coconut roll market. Catherine does give props to the wrapper; unlike the Rollo Coco covering, this one came off without putting up a fight and leaving shreds of plastic.

This post was part of our Mexican Candy Shootout! series. You can find all the posts in this series here.