f seemed to be the best temperature [SEP] the package states that the beans were manufactured on and expire i did find that the was cracked at some times while using which surprised me because the strip was not too thin at all with good edges and was not too cool but the biggest surprise to me was that it was at the correct consistency at vs like the bag advertisesthe main ingredient of this product is pine resin and i could smell the pine in the beans as soon as they began melting