Sardines in Olive Oil

Matiz Sardines in Olive Oil is the best Spanish Wild Caught Sardines that I've found. Plump and large size, great fresh flavor, and you can use the oil when making "Spain on a Fork" Sardine recipe. Worth the price for great quality.

These Matiz sardines are good. I bought them for myself and then sent a 5 pack to my mother. Mild and easy to eat. Great nutritional and healing benefits.

To me the best canned sardines available.

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.

good tasting sardines.

Taste and texture is great. Added this to my list of favorite sardines.

A pleasant taste!

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.

Excellent..a little pricey