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Affordable and pretty good, but beware the "meal" bar designation... |
I’ve found that breakfast bars make
the perfect snack for me when I’m wasting away in the mornings at
work. I usually stock up on the cheap ones (dipped granola bars,
etc.) but every once in a great while, I’ll turn my attention to
the Elevation by Millville line, which offer up “premium” bars
for a comparatively premium price tag. Wanting to get as close as I
could to the line between “premium” and “value”, I eventually
opted for these protein bars, simply because they were the cheapest
ones that had at least 5 bars. After all, I need to get at least a
week out of them!
The only other product I’ve tried in
the Elevation line were the mint chocolate bars, which are absolutely
phenomenal, but still make me pause for thought every time I see the
$6 price tag ($1 per bar? That’s some serious shit right there.)
These offer up 6 full-size bars for just $4.19, which comes out to a
respectable $.70 per bar. I haven't really compared the two all that
in-depth, but I am kind of wondering what else the mint bars have
that these don't (besides superior flavor), that justify the nearly
$2 price increase.
At any rate, these aren’t anywhere on
the same plane as those flavorwise, but they are a decent bar in
their own right. The chocolate flavor here is definitely more akin to
“milk”, rather than dark (thank God), but isn’t too awfully
sweet. Meanwhile, the bar’s “guts” are light and crispy, also
akin to the mint chocolate bars that I once fell in love with.
There’s a slight graininess in the finish, but nothing that’s too
noticeable, and certainly not enough to be distracting.
It's a good-tasting bar, with a decent
amount of protein and some other necessary vitamins (A, C, D, calcium
and iron chief among them), but one thing I don't like is that this
is a “meal” bar, insinuating it's meant to replace a meal. Only,
it's nowhere near filling, making this come off as more of a “snack”
bar. I mean, I don't personally care, because I just use it as a morning snack (which I guess technically makes it "breakfast"), but I can't see anyone being satisfied enough after eating
this to be able to skip eating actual food; that whole idea is
ludicrous, and a distinction that makes the whole "snack" versus "meal" bar thing a little confusing.
Overall: 7/10. A nice milk chocolate
flavor with a delicious “puffy” crisped-rice style interior set
the stage for this bar from the Elevation by Millville line. The
flavor is pretty delicious, offering up some nice sweet milk
chocolate flavor without being too sweet, the price is on point at
$4.19 (for six full-size bars), making it one of the more affordable
options they have to offer, and there's minimal weirdness in the
texture. It's not nearly as outstanding as their mint chocolate bars
(which are, to be fair, almost $2 more expensive), nor are they
anywhere near filling, making their designation as a “meal bar”
(as opposed to just a “snack” or “protein” bar) pretty
confusing and pointless.
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