What's Missing From This Cookie?

Golden Uh-Oh Oreos (vanilla sandwich cookie with chocolate cream): Our tasters thought this cookie lived up to the "uh-oh" in its name. "It looks like a shortbread, but it smells and tastes like artificial vanilla," said Jansen. "The chocolate doesn't come through." Klc was also harder on the filling than the biscuit. "The biscuit is very adequate," said Klc. "But I hate everything about the filling -- it tastes like Crisco and confectioners' sugar."

Serving size is three cookies, 170 calories, 7 total fat grams (2 grams saturated fat, 1.5 grams polyunsaturated fat, 3.5 grams monounsaturated fat).

Sugar-Free Oreos: Our tasters knew something was up because the cookie looked like an Oreo but was smaller. And they kind of liked the cookie. "It's daintier, and the wafer is more tender," Jansen said. "It's attractive." Said Klc: "It's not objectionable. It isn't as good as the original Oreo, but if it's designed to be sugar-free, it's a success."

Serving size is two cookies, 100 calories, 5 total fat grams (1.5 grams saturated fat, 1 gram polyunsaturated fat, 2.5 grams monounsaturated fat).

Reduced Fat Oreos: It's a good thing the Women's Health Initiative recently found that low-fat diets might not be all they're cracked up to be, because our tasters hated the look, smell and taste of this cookie. The best they could say about it was that it smelled like a graham cracker.

Serving size is two cookies, 100 calories, 5 total fat grams (1.5 grams saturated fat, 1 gram polyunsaturated fat, 2.5 grams monounsaturated fat).

Offbeat Oreos

Double Stuf, Peanut Butter Creme Oreos: This cookie frustrated our tasters. "There's a pleasant peanut butter aroma," Jansen said. "Enough so you hope it's worth eating," Klc added. But the taste was another story. "The salt in the cookie is a plus, and it offsets the cloying sweetness of the cream a little," Jansen said. "It doesn't deliver," Klc said. "The cream is too sweet, and the peanut butter taste isn't intense enough."

Serving size is two cookies, 140 calories, 6 total fat grams (1.5 grams saturated fat, 1.5 grams polyunsaturated fat, 3 grams monounsaturated fat).

Golden Uh-Oh Oreos (vanilla sandwich cookie with chocolate cream): Our tasters thought this cookie lived up to the "uh-oh" in its name. "It looks like a shortbread, but it smells and tastes like artificial vanilla," said Jansen. "The chocolate doesn't come through." Klc was also harder on the filling than the biscuit. "The biscuit is very adequate," said Klc. "But I hate everything about the filling -- it tastes like Crisco and confectioners' sugar."

Serving size is three cookies, 170 calories, 7 total fat grams (2 grams saturated fat, 1.5 grams polyunsaturated fat, 3.5 grams monounsaturated fat).

Sugar-Free Oreos: Our tasters knew something was up because the cookie looked like an Oreo but was smaller. And they kind of liked the cookie. "It's daintier, and the wafer is more tender," Jansen said. "It's attractive." Said Klc: "It's not objectionable. It isn't as good as the original Oreo, but if it's designed to be sugar-free, it's a success."

Serving size is two cookies, 100 calories, 5 total fat grams (1.5 grams saturated fat, 1 gram polyunsaturated fat, 2.5 grams monounsaturated fat).

Reduced Fat Oreos: It's a good thing the Women's Health Initiative recently found that low-fat diets might not be all they're cracked up to be, because our tasters hated the look, smell and taste of this cookie. The best they could say about it was that it smelled like a graham cracker.

Serving size is two cookies, 100 calories, 5 total fat grams (1.5 grams saturated fat, 1 gram polyunsaturated fat, 2.5 grams monounsaturated fat).