A Review and Release History of Walmart Brand Great Value, Freshness Guaranteed, & Bettergoods Foods, Snacks, & More

Review

This tastes like the middleman of something too sugary and the traditional candy corn taste. Basically, it’s super sugary sweet while also sporting some of that traditional candy corn-like flavor. It’s a sweet lover’s dream, and frankly, I’d advise everyone else to avoid it unless they literally eat sugar for breakfast or have a thing for candy corn like I do—I really can’t emphasize how sugary these are!

The texture is pretty darn good. It’s like a caramel popcorn—crunchy, but not hard, as it’s quite smooth and even a bit soft due to the generous amount of drizzle they’ve poured onto it. To me, these have such a great mouthfeel and combination of soft and hard textures!

Last, something I have to mention, this package is so hard to open!
The plastic is so thick!

Release Date

Walmart released several new fall treats in mid-August 2025, including Marketside’s Caramel Pie Square, Cookie Platter with assorted fall cookies, and Spiced Apple Croissant Muffins, as well as Freshness Guaranteed’s Mystery Flavor Cake Donuts, Mystery Frosted Sugar Cookies, Fall Chocolate & Vanilla Iced Mini Donuts, and Pumpkin Cake Donuts. Lastly, there are also many other fall-based returning items and other potentially new ones.

Review

Moist, semi-thick, and light at the same time, with a slight chew and soft, it’s basically a perfect pumpkin loaf cake texture. It’s a very pleasant mouthfeel! However, my gripe with most sliced loaf cakes is that they do break apart easily because they’re on the thinner, lighter side—this is no different.

With that, the flavor is equally authentic. It’s a moderately sweet sugar taste with an almost organic, slightly bitter pumpkin taste alongside it. It reminds me of a homemade seasoned pumpkin pie flavor, surprisingly. Then on top of that, literally, is the thin layer of super sweet icing—I wish there was more of it! It really gives it a small jolt of appreciable sweetness to the more mild cake itself.

Release Date

While I can’t find a release date, the earliest mention I found dates back to November 2021, with suggestions that it’s come back in later years for the fall seasons. Found mid-August 2025.

Review

To me, this tastes just like an apple pie, but in fact, maybe a smidge less sweet. It has the crust taste from the semi-moist, crumbly, dry-ish cobbled-together shortbread bottom, and the top layer is a gooey, moderately sweet apple pie-like filling. To be honest, I don’t really get any explicit caramel with this—these are simply more like a soft apple pie in square form. I guess the label was (mostly) accurate!

If anything, I wish the texture were denser. It really feels like a soft, gooey, crumbly cake, and I feel like it’d be better in a more solid, denser, bar-like form. I also can’t neglect to say that the bottom crust-like part is low-tier, as it breaks apart due to its semi-dry composition. And let’s not forget, where is the caramel flavor? A healthy dose of that would really elevate this!

That aside, the flavor is accurate, and for the most part, the texture is too, minus any super-thin, crunchy crust.

Release Date

Walmart released several new fall treats in mid-August 2025, including Marketside’s Caramel Pie Square, Cookie Platter with assorted fall cookies, and Spiced Apple Croissant Muffins, as well as Freshness Guaranteed’s Mystery Flavor Cake Donuts, Mystery Frosted Sugar Cookies, Fall Chocolate & Vanilla Iced Mini Donuts, and Pumpkin Cake Donuts. Lastly, there are also many other fall-based returning items and other potentially new ones.

Found mid-August 2025.

Review

First off, the Apple Pie cookie is the most different. This is the only cookie here with a notably different texture. It feels homemade, organic even. It has an oaty feel, and the cookie has a super soft, chewy, and pull-apart texture as if they put marshmallow into the dough. Of the lot of cookies here, this has my favorite composition and mouthfeel!

The next three have more or less the same textures as one another and similar flavor profiles. Let me explain.

For small cookies, they’re quite thick, dense, and lightly chewy. The addition of small chunky pieces is welcome, but for the most part, the compositions of these are uniform. They definitely don’t feel homemade and lean towards an artificial mouthfeel, but they’re actually not as bad as most other cookies, which are as artificial and come out much worse. Essentially, they are premium grocery-bought cookies with identical textures.

The flavors of these, like the Apple Pie, are all mild. You kind of have to search for what each cookie is trying to do. In fact, I had to go back to the packaging label to figure out what I was eating! It was only then that I started to notice the nuances in the flavor—and they are there; you just have to look for them.

For example, the Brown Butter Cinnamon Roll has the taste of what it advertises. The dough is present, as is the cinnamon, and even some brown butter. But as I said earlier, it’s not very sweet, so it can be hard to distinguish if you aren’t explicitly looking for it.

The same goes for the other cookies. The one big difference I found was that the Pumpkin White Chocolate did seem to differ from its larger-sized counterpart. In that, while it was thick for a smaller cookie, it didn’t seem to be as chunky, and the sweetness was a smidge lower. It’s definitely close, but just a little different.

Other than that, these cookies are still good. I love sweets, and that’s my bias, so I’m going to prefer sweeter cookies. However, if you took these to a party, no one is going to be offended. They’re enjoyable, the texture is good, and the flavor profiles are accurate.

Release Date

Walmart released several new fall treats in mid-August 2025, including Marketside’s Caramel Pie Square, Cookie Platter with assorted fall cookies, and Spiced Apple Croissant Muffins, as well as Freshness Guaranteed’s Mystery Flavor Cake Donuts, Mystery Frosted Sugar Cookies, Fall Chocolate & Vanilla Iced Mini Donuts, and Pumpkin Cake Donuts. Lastly, there are also many other fall-based returning items and other potentially new ones.

Found mid-August 2025.

Review

First, these are definitely much larger and chunkier than your average cookie, having a thick, semi-moist, soft texture—the mouthfeel is really awesome; it definitely feels premium and a step ahead of other store-bought cookies. Most of the texture is uniform throughout, though a small difference is that the inside is softer than the ever-so-slightly crunchier outside, and further, the occasional white chocolate chunk adds a smidge extra to both the composition and flavor.

Speaking of flavor, it’s moderately sugary sweet with a mild, authentic pumpkin taste. The few embedded white chocolate pieces do give it a tiny burst of creamy, complementary flavor, but nothing too crazy or punchy here.

Overall, these do feel and taste almost homemade. They’re pleasant and remind me of a fall treat. And personally, due to their not being super sweet, I could see these being paired with some frosting if you want to bring it up a level.

Release Date

While I cannot find an exact release date, the earliest review I can find dates back to October 2018, with mentions of it coming back every year since. For reference, these came back again in July 2025. Found July 2025.

Review

It feels like a premium version of a Rice Krispies treat. Thick, soft, and sports a notable marshmallow taste. However, like a Rice Krispies treat, it does feel artificial, as if it were made to last a long time on the store shelf. It’s not necessarily bad, though, and doesn’t detract too much from the experience.

What is important to notice the most, however, is… uh… this is false advertising! Where’s the chocolate and graham cracker?!

This is rice and marshmallow through and through, nothing more. Those toppings do nothing! There’s nothing even embedded inside this bar aside from a few marshmallows.

So, yeah, it’s tasty and marshmallowy, but it’s not in any way s’mores!

Release Date

Released in early July 2025 as part of Walmart’s Freshness Guaranteed bakery lineup. The launch features four soda-flavored treats: Dr Pepper, Hawaiian Punch, Orange Crush, and 7 Up. These are available as mini cake bites, bundt cakes, and cupcakes. It also includes PB&J-inspired items such as PB&J bars, grape jelly cupcakes, and PB&J bites. Finally, the lineup offers s’mores-flavored goodies, including mini donuts, muffins, frosted cookies, and cupcakes. See sources here and here). Found July 2025.

Review

Okay, so the centers of these are just amazing. It’s essentially a thick, soft, moist, and slightly chewy buttery graham cracker ball (or cake?). Then, a shell of complementary semi-dark chocolate surrounds it. Together, it’s a great combination and something I’ve never had before.

However, where is the marshmallow? S’mores have marshmallows, right? Just because you nailed everything else doesn’t mean you skimp out on one-third of the ingredients! I know I just bashed these a lot, but you know what—honestly, even without the marshmallow, they still rock a great treat—such a great mouthfeel and buttery graham taste!

Release Date

Released in early July 2025 as part of Walmart’s Freshness Guaranteed bakery lineup. The launch features four soda-flavored treats: Dr Pepper, Hawaiian Punch, Orange Crush, and 7 Up. These are available as mini cake bites, bundt cakes, and cupcakes. It also includes PB&J-inspired items such as PB&J bars, grape jelly cupcakes, and PB&J bites. Finally, the lineup offers s’mores-flavored goodies, including mini donuts, muffins, frosted cookies, and cupcakes. See sources here and here). Found July 2025.

Review

Pretty thick, lightly chewy, and a fair bit crumbly, as they fall apart when biting in. They feel a tad on the drier side (perhaps that’s why they crumble).

The overall cookie has a semi-sweet jarred peanut butter taste, as well as the addition of a few peanut chip pieces. Backing that is an essence of fruit from the complementary fruit pieces. I appreciate how the peanut flavor resembles Jif, although the flavor and sweetness need to be stronger for it to really flourish. I’d also like more jelly flavor because those few fruit chunks simply didn’t do it for me.

Release Date

Released in early July 2025 as part of Walmart’s Freshness Guaranteed bakery lineup. The launch features four soda-flavored treats: Dr Pepper, Hawaiian Punch, Orange Crush, and 7 Up. These are available as mini cake bites, bundt cakes, and cupcakes. It also includes PB&J-inspired items such as PB&J bars, grape jelly cupcakes, and PB&J bites. Finally, the lineup offers s’mores-flavored goodies, including mini donuts, muffins, frosted cookies, and cupcakes. See sources here and here). Found July 2025.

Review

A thick, solid, premium-feeling cookie. Granted, it still resembles a store-bought one in many aspects, but it’s tiers higher in quality. I really love how moist and chewy it is, as well as its thickness—yeah, I know I mentioned thickness before; it’s worth reiterating because these boys are chonkers! Overall, it has a great mouthfeel!

The flavor of most of the cookies is a mildly sweet, plain, regular chocolate cookie. Most of the flavor comes from the large embedded chocolate pieces that give it a punch of Hershey’s chocolate sweetness when you finally chew through them. Also, the marshmallows provide it with even more of a softer, chewier texture and a hint of marshmallow flavor.

If anything, I wish there were more of these pieces, as it feels like they skimped a bit. With more of them, it could truly become a top-tier s’mores-based cookie.

Release Date

Released in early July 2025 as part of Walmart’s Freshness Guaranteed bakery lineup. The launch features four soda-flavored treats: Dr Pepper, Hawaiian Punch, Orange Crush, and 7 Up. These are available as mini cake bites, bundt cakes, and cupcakes. It also includes PB&J-inspired items such as PB&J bars, grape jelly cupcakes, and PB&J bites. Finally, the lineup offers s’mores flavored goodies, including mini donuts, muffins, frosted cookies, and cupcakes. See sources here and here). Found July 2025.

Review

S’mores? Uh, where? This is a sweet dark chocolate muffin, nothing more. The toppings do absolutely, positively nothing, too (they look nice, I guess). At least it’s not bitter or unpleasant, which is often the case with dark chocolates.

So, that aside, the texture is pretty premium. It’s thick, moist, and soft. It feels better than a lot of other muffins you may encounter, especially prepackaged ones. If you want a good dark chocolate muffin, you may want to try this; however, the s’mores experience is simply absent.

Release Date

Released in early July 2025 as part of Walmart’s Freshness Guaranteed bakery lineup. The launch features four soda-flavored treats: Dr Pepper, Hawaiian Punch, Orange Crush, and 7 Up. These are available as mini cake bites, bundt cakes, and cupcakes. It also includes PB&J-inspired items such as PB&J bars, grape jelly cupcakes, and PB&J bites. Finally, the lineup offers s’mores-flavored goodies, including mini donuts, muffins, frosted cookies, and cupcakes. See sources here and here). Found July 2025.

Review

These bars are soft, with a large semisweet graham cracker part that seems to be both dry and moist at the same time. Essentially, this bottom layer is cobbled together from ground-up graham crackers in a thick, soft, and “moist-like” crust. Above that is a hardly sweet, soft dark chocolate part that feels like a thick ganache. It’s not bitter and doesn’t add much sweetness or any exciting chocolate flavor. Lastly, white gooey swirls sit at the top, don’t appear to add anything—they’re especially thin and appear to be only for show.

In summary, these aren’t fully s’mores. The graham cracker takes up too much of the flavor, the chocolate is not sweet or bold enough, and the marshmallow is completely absent. At the very least, the combination of textures is decent enough, making for a pleasant mouthfeel when you bite in.

Release Date

Released in early July 2025 as part of Walmart’s Freshness Guaranteed bakery lineup. The launch features four soda-flavored treats: Dr Pepper, Hawaiian Punch, Orange Crush, and 7 Up. These are available as mini cake bites, bundt cakes, and cupcakes. It also includes PB&J-inspired items such as PB&J bars, grape jelly cupcakes, and PB&J bites. Finally, the lineup offers s’mores-flavored goodies, including mini donuts, muffins, frosted cookies, and cupcakes. See sources here and here). Found July 2025.

Review

So, before I dive in: The long and short of this treat is that if you’re a fan of PB&J like me, you will absolutely have a ball with these! It’s so thick, moist, and dense; it’s got such a good, soft mouthfeel, like you’re biting into a homemade premium dessert bar! Texture—amazing!

For the taste: First bite in, I’m hit with a fairly sweet and strong grape jelly, the same kind you find on store shelves from Welch’s and other brands. At the same time, a peanut, but it’s lighter, offering mostly a complementary background peanut that coincides well enough with the grape.

Lastly, the bar as a whole reminds me of a moderately sweet, doughy piece of bread. So, when combining them all, it does taste a lot like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in a wonderfully yummy bar form. My biggest issue, however, is that the peanut flavor could be a step higher—just a bit, and I think then it would be nearly perfect!

Release Date

Released in early July 2025 as part of Walmart’s Freshness Guaranteed bakery lineup. The launch features four soda-flavored treats: Dr Pepper, Hawaiian Punch, Orange Crush, and 7 Up. These are available as mini cake bites, bundt cakes, and cupcakes. It also includes PB&J-inspired items such as PB&J bars, grape jelly cupcakes, and PB&J bites. Finally, the lineup offers s’mores-flavored goodies, including mini donuts, muffins, frosted cookies, and cupcakes. See sources here and here). Found July 2025.

Review

“I’m not going to like these. Sour Watermelon… popcorn? Ew… Wait…”

At first, I was confused about the flavor, but after eating a few more, it’s clear: a sweet watermelon with just a hint of sourness. Together, it’s a surprisingly nice combo, although the package does say sour, and I don’t think these fall into that realm necessarily. Regardless, it’s a pretty sweet, watermelon-like flavor, kind of reminding me of those sweet watermelon gummies you find on store shelves.

The texture is reasonably crunchy and coats your hand in the stuff. This texture, combined with the flavor, does not feel awkward at all! Lastly, like me, I feel a lot of people will like this despite it being an “odd” flavor.

Release Date

Released May 2025. Found June 2025.

Review

These cookies are quite large and thick. I also especially love how soft, lightly moist, and chewy they are—they feel absolutely premium in this regard. Although they do also have an artificial, but not off-putting, texture, as if they weren’t made to go old quickly. Interestingly, the texture is mostly uniform throughout—I would have thought the embedded chips would add a crunch of sorts, but they’re nearly equally as soft as the cookie itself!

The taste is lighter than I expected. It sports a light vanilla and creamy orange, very reminiscent of that of an orange popsicle, just as advertised on the package, although perhaps not as sweet. Overall, it’s very refreshing, actually, and doesn’t come across as too sweet or too punchy. In my opinion, these would absolutely pair well with a vanilla or cream cheese frosting.

Release Date

This is my first time seeing these. Mentions date back to June 2025, although some say they’ve been out before. Found June 2025.

Review

The texture of these is phenomenal and complex! It’s soft, fairly dense, and so easy to bite through. The graham cracker crust and shortcake are crumbly, especially the strawberry top, but then you have a complementary and paradoxically contrary, thick caramel goo center that holds both together—it’s great! This caramel is moderately sweet, not as sweet as a candy-based caramel; it’s much more tame and doesn’t taste artificial or feel fake. The strawberry top is also lightly sweet and provides an authentic strawberry taste.

Overall, these so-called brownies are moderately sweet, have a shortcake and light caramel flavor, and the texture is so, so darn interestingly wonderful!

Release Date

While I’m unsure of an exact release date, reviews date back to early 2025. Found May 2025.

Review

Overall, it’s decently creamy, soft, fluffy, and a little moist, like a good boxed cake mix. There’s a distinct, creamy strawberry taste that comes across as lightly sweet throughout.

However, what makes this cake is the drizzle. This thin layer of drizzle that is layered on top, on the side, and in the center is absolutely wonderful! It provides it with a ton of moisture, making it denser, as well as providing a sweet hit of much-needed sugar. However, it’s only the surface level, leaving the rest of the cake pretty tame and a bit boring. Essentially, this is a decent cake that desperately needs more of that sugary-sweet drizzle, but aside from that, it has a decent, pleasant, and well-balanced creamy strawberry flavor throughout.

Release Date

I’m not sure of a release date for this. Found at Walmart in April 2025.

Review

For whatever reason, I absolutely love these darn cookies. And to top it off (literally), you can get them decorated with that cheap, sweet-tasting frosting. Together, it’s just… magical.

Despite not being a freshly baked cookie, they’re soft, moist, and dense. They remind me of those fancy dessert cookies you find in restaurants or skillet cookies, albeit more artificial in terms of taste and texture, as if they were made to sit out for a long time.

They seem like cousins of Chewy Chips Ahoy! in terms of composition and flavor, coming across as sweet and milk chocolatey. The abundant bits of chocolate chips are soft and add an appreciable soft-solid chew contrast to the already soft and dense texture. Lastly, the frosting: it’s super artificial and fake-feeling, sweet, and pairs so well with the cookie for some reason; perhaps artificial plus artificial equals yum?!

To sum it up, personally, I prefer these at room temperature. When it’s warmed up, it falls apart too easily and becomes squishy. On the other hand, it gets a lot more chocolatey as the embedded chocolate chips melt and seem to spread throughout the cookie itself.

Release Date

They have been around for as long as I can remember. Found March 2025.

Review

This is more or less the same as their pecan pie, but with a bitter bourbon aftertaste. At first, I thought it was some weird, artificial fakeness happening, but it’s definitely a bourbon flavoring. Honestly, despite loving bourbon, I’m not sure if I like it here. I’d much rather just buy their regular pecan pie, which doesn’t have me questioning what that odd aftertaste is.

Nonetheless, the pie is reasonably sweet with a pecan taste. What’s especially nice is the thick caramel-like, gooey inside texture that sits below the top layer of pecans, which is satisfying to chew through both warm and especially chilled when it becomes a soft-hard texture. However, the crust feels so cheap! It’s simply too thin and dry.

Release Date

While I’m not sure of the exact release date, reviews date back to around 2019. Found February 2025.

Review

For such a cheap price, this sweet-tasting baklava was absolutely a steal for the quality. Each one had distinct flavors and different notes that set them apart, something cheap baklava often doesn’t do. In addition, the texture and composition are nearly perfect and resemble much more expensive baklava.

With regard to freshness, it was middle of the road. It wasn’t prepared minutes ago by a bakery, but it isn’t anywhere near being bad or being “Walmart quality,” either.

Release Date

It may have been released around October 2020. Found November 2023.

Review

Honey Bun
It’s a bit different than a honey bun, as it’s obviously a cake. It’s soft and just slightly moist, making it a decent texture. The taste is like a regular honey bun, although not as sweet, as the glaze-to-cake ratio is quite off; there’s a lot of cake to a thin layer of glaze!

Louisiana Crunch
It almost tastes like a regular yellow cake, but with some of this almost lemony tart taste. The texture is soft and slightly moist.

Sock It To Me
This is more or less a regular-tasting coffee cake. It’s fairly sweet and has that traditional coffee cake, brown sugar, and cinnamon flavor throughout. The texture is slightly moist, semi-thick, and soft.

Triple Chocolate
The cake itself is pretty sweet, especially with the drizzle. It’s almost like they used a dark chocolate cake mix but added a lot of sugar to make it less bitter. The texture is soft, moist, and semi-thick.