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What you're actually getting
Squirrel Brand traces back to 1888, when it started as the Austin T. Merrill Company selling fancy mixed nuts out of Roxbury, Massachusetts, later moving to Cambridge in 1915. The name changed hands to Southern Style Nuts in 1999 (production shifted to Texas) and the brand became part of John B. Sanfilippo & Son, Inc. in 2017 -- the same parent company behind Fisher Nuts and Orchard Valley Harvest. That history matters here because this is a long-running, now industrially-backed brand rather than a small artisan roaster, which is part of why it's widely stocked at national retailers.
The Sweet Brown Butter Cashews ship in a 3.5 oz resealable bag. Per the product listing, whole cashews are coated in a browned-butter and sugar glaze meant to land between sweet and savory, and the bag is labeled gluten-free and vegetarian. We could not locate a complete, itemized nutrition panel published outside of the retail packaging photos, so exact sugar, sodium, and fat-per-serving numbers should be confirmed on the bag or in Amazon's product images before buying if that matters for your diet.
On review volume this is a genuinely popular item: aggregated Amazon data across the Sweet Brown Butter Cashews listings shows ratings clustering around 4.4 out of 5, with tens of thousands of combined ratings across the various pack-size listings for this flavor. That volume gives the rating more statistical weight than a niche gourmet snack with a few hundred reviews.
Reading through the pattern of feedback (not a single testing session, but the aggregate of what reviewers report), the praise consistently centers on the flavor itself -- described as sweet, buttery, and 'addictive' -- with several buyers noting they reorder specifically because of the browned-butter coating rather than a plain roasted cashew. That is a genuinely useful signal for anyone comparing this to a plain salted cashew.
The recurring complaints are less about taste and more about consistency: some reviewers report stale or broken nuts in a portion of bags, others mention noticeable air/empty space in the resealable bag relative to the stated weight, and a subset flag that per-unit pricing has risen over time across the multi-pack listings. None of this means every bag is bad, but it's a real, repeated pattern worth knowing before you buy a large multi-pack sight unseen.
We have not conducted our own lab or taste test of this product -- this write-up is built from the manufacturer's own product description, brand history, and the aggregated pattern of publicly visible Amazon customer reviews, not from independent third-party lab testing (no outlet like ConsumerReports or America's Test Kitchen appears to have reviewed this specific SKU).
Key Listed Features
3.5 oz resealable bag format
Cashews coated in a browned-butter and sugar glaze
Labeled gluten-free and vegetarian
Made by a brand with a documented history dating to 1888
Now produced under John B
High review volume relative to niche gourmet-nut competitors
