ParagonParagon Bulk Bag Yellow PopCorn (12.5-Pounds), Brown, (1022)

I had been buying another brand of popcorn on Amazon for years. It was fine, price was right but suddenly the price shot up. This Paragon popcorn was available at at really good price . For some reason I was hesitant to give it a try. That was 2 years ago now and now it is the only popcorn I will ever buy! First for the kernels themselves - this popcorn pops up big and fluffy and is very flavorful, never stale. When I use my air popper all but about 2 or 3 individual kernels pop. Even when near the bottom of the bag all the kernels pop big. This is honestly very tasty popcorn. Other brands I purchased often came with a tear in the bag and loose kernels in the shipping box. Not with the Paragon. They seal the 12.5 pounds bag of popcorn in its own box tightly sealed and it even has an expiration date on the box as well. And the expiration date is always over a year from my purchase date. It's always a pleasure knowing when my shipment arrives that when I open the shipping box the popcorn will be carefully sealed within another box inside. With Paragon I get exactly what I want - big fluffy tasteful kernels. Highly recommend this brand and I will never use another.

We are on our 4th bag of this popcorn. It is great in both quality and value. After my local Costco stopped carrying the 8-lb tubs of Orville Redenbacher's unpopped corn I was looking for other options. This was especially needed when the coronavirus pandemic started since we were watching a lot of movies and eating a lot of popcorn. This brand of popcorn pops up perfectly with large kernels and tastes great! I highly recommend it!

Great popcorn at an excellent price! I was persuaded by the positive reviews to try this product, even though I had been shopping a well-known competitor's brand. I purchased the 12.5 pound bag vs. the competitor's product of a pound less popcorn. The price of this product, however, was almost 40% less than the price of the product created by one of the guys who invented the airplane (wink, wink).The proof is in the popcorn. Using a stainless steel Great Northern Popcorn Co. popper, I heated about 2 Tablespoons of coconut oil with about 2 teaspoons of Gold Medal Flavacol (fine salt/flavoring) over medium heat. After adding a layer of popcorn to the bottom of the pan, I began to slowly turn the handle throughout the popping cycle.Results. Are you ready for this? This single layer of popcorn produced 4 quarts of large, crispy popcorn with only NINE unpopped kernels. The Flavacol provided flavor very similar to theater popcorn without the "butter."As one who rarely submits ratings on anything, I felt compelled to share the quality of this popcorn (as well as Flavacol and the Great Northern popper) with the Amazon.com community.

The one things that impressed me about this corn is that has about a 99% popping rate in my whirly pop. Better than Orville, better than Jolly Time, better than the Winco Bulk food corn, better than....The favor and texture of the popcorn is great, but the hulls can be annoying. I like how it taste, and the firmness is perfect, but the hulls are think and hard.The size is a little smaller than I would like, I would say they are medium size.This popcorn is more affordable than most corn and better quality than nearly all the off the shelf and bulk food corn. It's hard to find better corn even at 3 times the price per pound.

So many choices out there......so I bought this one, simply because its made in IOWA!! hahaha....I know, silly, BUT Iowa is known for its excellent popcorn. And it was a great choice!! This popcorn tastes great, & just about every kernel pops!! I will definitely buy this again!!

This is the best popcorn I have ever bought, outdoes Orville Redenbacker's popcorn in size and taste. It is also the cheapest at approx. $1.20/lb. It pops up really well in the microwave (avoid all plastic microwave containers). I use a 3 qt glass bowl with a glass plate on top as a lid. It fits loosely enough so that when I overfill it with popcorn, the popcorn can lift up the lid easily and let excess gas escape. Most popcorn is pressure-sensitive so that if there is too much popcorn in a bowl to pop, some kernels will not pop. Almost every kernel pops when I microwave on high in a 1500 watt microwave oven for about 5 1/2 min (about 1 1/2 TBLSP popcorn) and no added oil. In fact when I popped about 8 bowls of the popcorn (had to cool off bowl each time to avoid overheating the microwave and burning popped pieces), I found about 5 unpopped kernels in the bottom of the large paper bag.This popcorn outdoes all of the microwavable popcorn brands that you will see in the grocery stores since you are not popping them in teflon/PfoA lined paper bags which will leach out dangerous chemicals (PfoA) into your popcorn with the heat necessary to pop the corn. If you try to use a lower heat on your microwave you will get progressively more unpopped kernels. Microwave is better than the hot air corn-poppers since it doesn't cool down kernels in between the pulses of hot air that corn poppers do. I watch the timer as it counts down and start to note when I hear a pop as the popping slows down. When I do not hear a pop for 12 sec, it is time to pull the bowl out of the hot microwave. Thus the time to pop a bowl of popcorn will vary from 5.3-5.7 min when starting with a cold bowl and lid.