Truvani

Truvani is not a company I'd normally seek out products from, but apparently, at some point, I did.

"Plant protein with no nasty ingredients."

The company mostly makes products I don't care about: protein powders, supplements, collagen peptides, etc, but they also do make a line of snack bars, which was vaguely interesting to me, as I often incorporate bars into my lifestyle as I'm frequently on the go, and care about getting decent protein and easy snacks throughout the day.  Everything is made with simple ingredients, no preservatives, no artificial things, etc, etc, and all are vegan, gluten-free, and the like.

Bars

"Our USDA Organic Only Bars are made with only 5-12 ingredients. Enjoy sweet satisfaction. Ingredients you know. Plus, they taste like nostalgic childhood treats that meet adulthood standards."

The bars come in 12 flavors, including some fun ones like cookie inspired chocolate chip cookie dough, snickerdoodle, or sugar cookie, dessert bar inspired like chocolate brownie or lemon bar, and crowd pleasing peanut butter chocolate chip or chocolate peanut butter.  I only tried one flavor, not the ones I would have selected, but somehow wound up with a box in my pantry that I'm not quite sure where they came from.  I'll admit the flavor choices wasn't a good one for me, but they didn't give me any motivation to buy others.

Coconut Cashew.

The bars are simple as they say, with only the expected cashews and coconut (given the variety I had), and the standard base of dates, maple syrup, and sea salt.

And they tasted like that.  Very heavy on the dates, which, given that I don't like dates, was a immediate turn off.  The bits of cashew were nice texture, and I could taste them, but, this just tasted healthy in all the ways that I don't find enjoyable.  It was mushy besides the bits of pulverized cashew.  I didn't taste much coconut.t

It reminded me of an RXBAR in many ways, just, without any of the good bits that make me tolerate RXBAR sometimes.  Not a product for me, 1.5/5.