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It actually tastes better than I thought it would.

Fruity Pebbles Bar: Pure Protein (PP) offers a variety of protein bars including some of my favorites. New for 2025 is the Fruity Pebbles flavor. Fruity Pebbles is a fruity (citrus) crisp rice cereal that debuted in 1971 and features The Flintstones characters on the box. PP’s bar has a sweet cream/milk-like outer coating on the bottom half and a lighter strawberry colored mousse-like substance on the top half. I’m not sure if they’re actual Fruity Pebbles cereal pieces or not, but cereal pieces (real or ersatz) are also embedded in the mousse layer, giving the bar more color and a slight crunch. I’m inclined towards ersatz (either that or they horribly mutate in the manufacturing process).
Texturally it is somewhat hard, much firmer than some other PP bars I’ve had. This results in the bar being rather chewy. I found the mousse layer to be airy compared to the bottom, but it was also sort of dry. Overall, the flavor is a mild citrus that is reminiscent of the cereal’s flavor, but not as strong. I verified this by snacking on a handful of Fruity Pebbles. If you’re really into Fruity Pebbles (I think they’re good, but not in my top cereals), then this bar is obviously for you. Personally, with PP having a number of better flavors available, the Fruity Pebbles Bar is just okay 😐 at best, but personally, I think it’s yabba dabba yuk (avoid 🤮). Lemon/citrus protein bars are just not great in my opinion

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My Pure Protein Favs:
1.Chocolate Peanut Caramel
2.Sundae Cone
3.Chocolate Peanut Butter
4.Chocolate Salted Caramel
*Excluding discontinued flavors

It feels like every category of food is becoming a “high protein” product now.
Protein bread.
Protein cereal.
Protein ice cream.
Protein yogurt.
Not complaining 😂 but I’m curious:
Do you actually choose products because they’re high in protein, or has “high protein” just become another marketing claim you automatically notice?
And has anyone here actually tried Skyr?

Back with a review of the other variety of Legendary Protein Pasta. Purchased off Amazon.

Macros are slightly different, but it prepares just the same. This one mixes up a little thicker and it's a little more grainy. But the flavor is fantastic. Really garlicky with some Parmesan funk. Less salty tasting than the other one, though sodium is similar. Once again, it's not gourmet. But it's way better than it has any right to be.

I included the ingredients list this time too for those who are curious.

They fucking nailed this one. This with an apple is so fucking good.

Here is a Youtube link if anyone wants to hear an unc ramble about these two Wilde protein chips lol: https://youtu.be/JXBLIW0s6dw

I was pretty excited about these chips because they are different from other protein chips. The Wilde brand uses chicken breast, egg white, and chicken bone broth instead of whey, which I thought was interesting. I tried two flavors: buffalo and chicken and waffles.

These were at Safeway on a sale for $2.50 each. Not too expensive, but not as cheap per unit as buying a 12pk of Pure Protein bars. The macros are not really good in my opinion: 13g of protein with 210/200 calories is not super great.

Both flavors tasted pretty good upfront and I was pretty pleased with them. However, there is a pretty gross aftertaste, which I can't quite put my finger on. I wouldn't say it was absolutely disgusting, but it was unappealing enough for me to consider stopping eating the rest.

I would not recommend either flavors of these chips. Overall, I would give them about 6/10 overall taking the price, flavor, and macros into consideration.

As an aside, I really like doing protein snack and yogurt reviews, so if anyone has any constructive criticism for me to improve my reviews, I would be greatly appreciative!!

Jif is excellent. I did a side by side with my old Skippy tub and they are very similar. Jif is a little bit less sweet, little bit more salty/roasted. It actually pretty well mirrors the differences between the two actual peanut butters if you’ve had both. Like I said, it still has that classic Ryse taste, etc which I enjoy. The differences are subtle enough that you may not even notice if you aren’t directly comparing them, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing

It’s excellent; all my qualms with the Skippy flavor have been solved.

10/10

first I want to say don’t come at me for getting this. I wont forgive them for putting gatsby out of business and forcing nicks to change their ice cream recipe

i got 1 of each of their 4 flavors at target

this is the last flavor I had to try. taste just like the cookie dough vanilla base but without the cookie dough or chocolate obv. this is my least favorite of the 4

id say my final ranks are

1. chocolate
2. peanut butter
3. cookie dough
4. vanilla bean

overall I wouldn’t really want to buy these again, they’re over priced /texture is chalky/and flavors are meh

They are not extremely different. The particular Chocolate Dough seemed a little less fresh which skews the results as I’ve had them before and I remember them tasting better than this one.

That being said, I still think Brownie Batter is essentially Chocolate Dough 2.0. It’s softer inside and has a molten fudge core, which tastes like the Ghirardelli chocolate sauce ice cream topping. The same style they’ve done for things like PB&J flavor but instead of PB and a jelly interior, it’s chocolate with a chocolate interior. It’s very premium tasting and indulgent. Chocolate Dough is still excellent, but it’s essentially a straight protein bar with the signature Barebells crunchy bits on the outside. Little less sweet which can be a good thing at times; Brownie Batter is very sweet.

Overall:
Brownie Batter 4.75/5
Chocolate Dough 4.5/5

I haven’t seen it talked about very often, but the Quest Chocolate Caramel Pecan Crispy Hero is probably my single favorite product from their entire lineup.

This thing has it all: a generous chocolate coating, a thick layer of caramel across the top that works its way throughout the soft and chewy center, and little pieces of pecan throughout.

The flavor is rich without being overly sweet. I especially love how much caramel there is. You actually get kind of a “cheese pull” effect from the caramel when taking a bite, and I haven’t found that in any other protein bar (if you know of another one that does this, please share!)

It’s a Crispy Hero bar, so at 15g the protein is a little lower than you’ll get from most of the standard Quest bars, but it still uses a high quality protein blend of milk protein isolate and whey protein isolate. For me, the tradeoff is completely worth it.

I’m surprised I don’t see this one mentioned more often. Has anyone else tried it? Am I the only one who thinks it’s one of Quest’s best?

found this at shoprite, altho I’ve also seen it at other stores like Walmart etc.

it’s pretty good but not my fav! the pistachio isn’t strong at all and the pomegranate part of this just tastes like mixed berry ? more like mixed berry chocolate flip idk it reminds me of the strawberry chocolate Chobani flip.

my #1 is the caramel pretzel flip I highly recommend it :)

Hi, I bought this Sascha Fitness protein from a website, and it cost me quite a lot of money. When I looked for it on a local website in my country, I found it for a much cheaper price. I know mine is authentic, but could someone tell me what the counterfeit one looks like?!

found this at five below-

it’s good! but tastes kind of like the bday one lol, tbh half of their brownies all taste the same. I don’t get strawberry flavor from this really 🤷 the sprinkles are fun tho

so far my #1 from them is the cinnamon roll brownie

Started making my own when I realized how many bad ingredients the “healthy” protein bars had. These have 6 natural ingredients.

6/10. I really wanted to like this one. The ingredient label lists real strawberries, and they are visible in the bar. Despite this, the bar has a cloying artificial taste that's hard to get past. I bought a whole box and thought they'd grow on me, unfortunately not so far. I may either suck it up and finish them or give them away, not sure, but I wouldn't buy again. It's curious because I enjoy a lot of artificial strawberry flavors in products like Pop Tarts and gummy candy, but this one does not appeal to me so much. Interested to hear opinions from others.