I don't really like granola bars, protein bars, and the like, but, sometimes I need convenient snacks to carry with me, or to make sure I have protein to supplement my sometimes ridiculous lifestyle, and bars work well for this. As such, I end up trying a lot of bars, surprising for an item I just don't generally like all that much.
Perfect Bars are nutrition bars, all with peanuts or almonds as the base (well, specifically, peanut or almond butter). They are sweetened with only honey. Like all trendy bars these days, they are non-GMO, gluten-free, kosher, full of protein, no refined sugar, laden with super foods ....
They produce 3 types of almond based bar: plain almond butter, almond acai, and almond coconut. I didn't try any of these, since I don't generally care for almond butter. Peanut options are Carob Chip, Fruit & Nut, Cranberry Crunch, and plain Peanut Butter (available as a mini only).
Perfect Bars however lose out in the convenient factor, because they require refrigeration and have a shorter shelf life.
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| Peanut Butter Mini. |
The first flavor they ever made was peanut butter, so, I started with this, their first, and signature, item.
I tried a mini version, not really expecting to like these bars, and not wanting to invest in a full size bar. The mini was indeed mini, easily finished in 2-3 bites.
The bar was a fairly solid texture, just kinda a block. Since I had it straight from the fridge, it was also cold, and crumbled a bit. I wonder what it would be like if it warmed up a bit?
Anyway, my 2-3 bites was only 100 calories, which is decently low given that it is a peanut butter bar, and, shockingly, the first ingredient is indeed peanut butter. And you can tell. It mostly just tastes like, well, peanut butter. There was not a strange bitterness to it. There was not an awful aftertaste. It tasted like peanut butter, honeyed peanut butter even.
As I said, the first ingredient is peanut butter, and the second is honey, so, it actually makes sense that that is what I tasted. The bar actually tastes like what it is made of. There are more ingredients in it, including "Dried whole food powders", which includes kale, flax seed, rose hip, orange, lemon, papaya, tomato, apple, alfalfa, celery, kelp, dulse, carrot, and spinach, but honestly, I didn't taste any of that. Notably, there is no "whey protein isolate", or any strange chemicals. The only not entirely obvious ingredient is rice protein, which never tastes as nasty to me as the other proteins commonly found in bars.
Anyway, was this actually tasty? Well, not really. If it had some chocolate chips in it though, I could imagine liking it (they do make a version with carob chips, perhaps that would work?). Or just something to give it a bit more oomph. As it was, it was just a strange textured bar, that mostly tasted like honey peanut butter.
I tried a mini version, not really expecting to like these bars, and not wanting to invest in a full size bar. The mini was indeed mini, easily finished in 2-3 bites.
The bar was a fairly solid texture, just kinda a block. Since I had it straight from the fridge, it was also cold, and crumbled a bit. I wonder what it would be like if it warmed up a bit?
Anyway, my 2-3 bites was only 100 calories, which is decently low given that it is a peanut butter bar, and, shockingly, the first ingredient is indeed peanut butter. And you can tell. It mostly just tastes like, well, peanut butter. There was not a strange bitterness to it. There was not an awful aftertaste. It tasted like peanut butter, honeyed peanut butter even.
As I said, the first ingredient is peanut butter, and the second is honey, so, it actually makes sense that that is what I tasted. The bar actually tastes like what it is made of. There are more ingredients in it, including "Dried whole food powders", which includes kale, flax seed, rose hip, orange, lemon, papaya, tomato, apple, alfalfa, celery, kelp, dulse, carrot, and spinach, but honestly, I didn't taste any of that. Notably, there is no "whey protein isolate", or any strange chemicals. The only not entirely obvious ingredient is rice protein, which never tastes as nasty to me as the other proteins commonly found in bars.
Anyway, was this actually tasty? Well, not really. If it had some chocolate chips in it though, I could imagine liking it (they do make a version with carob chips, perhaps that would work?). Or just something to give it a bit more oomph. As it was, it was just a strange textured bar, that mostly tasted like honey peanut butter.
