The Hot Zone Online blog - Aug. 07, First Impression: Very, very fresh. In my opinion, it is highly difficult to make a shelf salsa taste fresh. This is one of the few on the market. More importantly, and on a similar matter, it is infinitely difficult to maintain cilantro flavor in a shelf salsa. These folks seem to do a great job of pulling out natural flavors into an outstanding chip salsa that is shelf stable.
Taste: Starts out sweet. Then it moves on to tasting individual elements like the cumin (you can taste that immediately) and the cilantro. Again, for a shelf stable product, this has an awesome cilantro flavor. Now for the surprise part…BEWARE…this salsa catches up. There are DEFINITELY habaneros in this puppy. But the great thing is that you can be eating this for a while and not really get it until you stop. Then you’re like, “Whoa…this salsa has kick!” It’s a great experience.
Overall Recommendation: I love the “catch up” aspect of this salsa. That combined with the fresh taste and myriad of flavors makes this a wonderful chip salsa. You could use it for anything you would use salsa, but it’s just a lot of fun to eat very plainly on its own. I mean, sometimes you just want chips and salsa. This is your salsa! | 
