Balance Bar yogurt honey peanut
Written: Mar 06 '08
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Pros: energy and vitamins
Cons: HFCS and other ingredients not the best, flavor isn't very distinct
The Bottom Line: decent bar for energy, but nothing exceptional
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| artemis8's Full Review: Balance Bar Yog Hon Pnt Box Of 15 |
I like to eat energy bars in the mornings as quick breakfasts. Recently I noticed Balance bars on sale and picked up the Yogurt Honey Peanut flavor.
Balance bars call themselves that since they provide a blend of 40-30-30 nutrition, 40% of the calories are from carbohydrates, 30% each come from protein and fat. This particular bar has 200 calories, 60 from fat, 15g of protein, and 21g of carbs. It also provides between 10 and 100% of the RDA values of 23 vitamins and minerals.
The ingredients are protein blend, high fructose corn syrup, high maltose corn syrup, roasted soybeans, sugar, roasted ground peanuts, palm kernel oil, nonfat milk, honey, natural flavor, nonfat yogurt powder, soy lecithin, dextrose, maltodextrin, salt, caramel color, canola oil, sunflower oil, fish gelatin, oligofructose. Then there are a whole bunch of vitamins and minerals.
While you may have missed it, this is not a vegetarian bar, since it has fish gelatin in it.
The bar is 1.76 oz (50g). It is medium sized compared to other bars I've had. There is a white yogurt coating over a nugget type inside. The inside is a light peanut butter color. The bar seems a little chewy, but not like it would stick to your teeth.
I like the flavor for the most part, although I wished it taste more like honey. I think it tastes sweet, and you can see from the ingredients there are a lot of sugars in this bar, but it doesn't taste particularly like honey to me. I wish honey had been higher on the ingredients list and high fructose corn syrup lower (or not at all).
This bar claims to provide energy that lasts. I felt it did sufficiently well in curbing my hunger through the morning. I didn't use this bar while using high amounts of energy though, just brain energy at work.
Overall I find this to be an average bar. When there are other options, like Clif products, out there that taste better and have better for you ingredients, this is not a bar I look for. If there is a good discount I know I would be tempted to buy more, but without that I wouldn't chose this bar again.
Recommended:
No
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