Sardines in Olive Oil

Absolutely great quality. I’ve tried different brands, but this one tops it all. The taste is amazing. It is light and contains big chunks of sardines. The olive oil is also great quality as well.

I eat these every day for lunch and so buy they by the case on subscription. I highly recommend them.

Tasty, convenient, delicious, no tinny or off-taste from the can. I never, ever thought that I would eat sardines. Now that I've discovered this brand, I'm hooked. A very healthy addiction!

Pretty good sardines, bones aren't very noticeable, flavor is good, and well packaged. Really no complaints but the price tag is a little on the high side for what you could get otherwise.

Very pleased—excellent quality, will re-order!

I love sardines, which are extremely healthy (not just for omega 3, but for B vitamins, Iron, Vitamin D, Calcium, and Magnesium) and help tremendously with bone health. They are also environmentally sustainable, even when wild caught, and fairly cheap. Matiz is my favorite brand of sardines: they are plump, firm, and simply taste better than other brands. They are not oversmoked (at least by my taste) and seem fresher in comparison. I buy a pack of 25 of these to eat regularly and do feel quite a bit better when I do. (Bonus: I sleep better, likely because of the magnesium.)

Delicious. Not the tiny ones you usually find. Nice size and excellent flavor.

At $4.59 a box (the unit price when I bought my pack of 5), I am not sure if they are substantially better than the boneless/skinless sardines I purchase for $2.79 a box. Perhaps this is because I do not eat the skin and bones, even though I know they are edible and, indeed, the bones are good for calcium. But, I find those parts disagreeable and always remove them. So, these are a lot more work...and greasy, smelly work at that. The flavor is slightly better than those, though. With the boneless, skinless Crown Prince, I realize I am sacrificing a bit of flavor for ease and convenience. Perhaps fairer is to compare them to the sardines I normally purchase that do have skin and bones. These MAY, and I am not certain they really do, have a slightly better flavor than the double-layer brisling sardines I also purchase here, Crown Prince 2 Layer Brislings, and those come out to a unit price of $2.28. I really can't say that they are better at all, and certainly not enough as to justify costing double the price. In fact, if I don't factor in the skin and bones, my taste preference is for the smaller sardines, not the larger ones such as these Matiz sardines. Finally, the work of removing the skin and bones from these was more than removing the skin and bones from the CP2LB because these have an almost mushy texture and that makes it harder to remove the slimy skin. One more note, these actually had SCALES on the skin - not something I've ever seen on other canned sardines and, being the large size like the boneless, skinless sardines in my first paragraph, and not the smaller size, the Matiz bones are larger - so, between these two issues - scales and larger bones, I am even less likely to eat them without removing these parts. I have purchased a few other brands that come in this size with skin and bones, but have yet to try them so I can't compare the Matiz to those. On the whole, I was disappointed as I expected these to wow me and they did not live up to my expectations.