Crunch Bar Tastes Pretty Good, Blonde Bar Dominated By Coconut, Dislike Additives Like Sulfites
﻿The variety box has Chocolate Cereal Crunch and Chocolate Peanut Butter Blondie bars. The taste of the Crunch bar is pretty good. It’s a darker brown peanut butter bar with a texture that’s kind of dry with a little crunch from crisp rice. It has a sweetened peanut butter taste with a hint of a chocolate from cocoa. I prefer it to the Blondie bar.<br /><br />The Blondie bar is a lighter color peanut butter bar with chocolate chips and shredded coconut. The texture is a lot like the Crunch bar but it’s altered by so much shredded coconut (instead of the crisp rice). I like the chocolate chips and peanut taste, but I don’t enjoy the taste or texture of the shredded coconut (just my personal preference). The bars are satiating and filling.<br /><br />But I’m unimpressed with some ingredients, such as the hydrogenated oils, mono and diglycerides, soy lecithin and caramel color in the Crunch bar and propylene glycol, cellulose gel, soy lecithin and imitation vanilla extract in the Blondie. And I can’t tell from the ingredient list what type (e.g., soy, whey, etc.) of “protein isolate” is in these bars.<br /><br />I really don’t like that the Blondie bar has sodium metabisulfite. It can cause gastro issues, coughing, wheezing and even shock and life threatening reactions in those with sulfite sensitivity. I just don’t like the additives and these taste processed and have a strange aftertaste. There are protein bars I like better that seem to have cleaner ingredients and are organic. These are just okay. 3 stars. Made in the USA.
Rating: 3 stars