Review: Wendy's - Natural-Cut Fries with Sea Salt

Wendy's recently replaced their French Fries with a newer, fancier version dubbed the "Natural-Cut Fries with Sea Salt." New features of the fries include a skin-on cut which is more aesthetics than anything, a new blend of frying oil, and most significantly, the addition of sea salt.

Pricing remains the same and I bought an order of value-sized Natural-Cut Fries with Sea Salt (a rather unwieldy name but I guess it plays up the sea salt aspect) for 99 cents.

My initial impression upon getting a gander at the new fries was that they looked a lot like the old fries but (maybe) slightly thinner and with small patches of potato skin at the tips.

Picking one up, I noticed that the fry were nice and crisp and I would guess the new fries are meant to be consistently crisp like the old ones were not (but only repeat visits will tell). The salt looked and felt the same.

As I bit into one, it was quite salty. Subsequent fries only reinforced the observation. Mostly, the fries aren't too different from Wendy's old fries in taste; they might be a little bit more potato-y and definitely more salty though. I couldn't tell the difference in the taste of the salt though I've noticed most products that feature sea salt tend to taste less salty and here it actually tastes more salty which I did not care for at all.

Texturally, every fry was uniformly crisp while retaining enough moisture inside remain soft. While McDonald's (when they're crisp) remains my favorite fry (it's the beef flavor!), Wendy's new Natural-Cut Fries are no slouch, but the saltiness is a real deal breaker for me.

I'll have to see if subsequent visits produce the same results before I write them off entirely though.

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Nutritional Info - Wendy's Natural-Cut French Fries with Sea Salt - Value Size
Calories - 220 (from Fat - 100)
Fat - 11g (Saturated Fat - 2g)
Sodium - 270mg
Carbs - 29g (Sugar - 0g)
Protein - 3g