Let me start by saying that I am not on a diet and I do not normally purchase “diet products.” I bought this think Thin bar solely because I flipped out that it was chocolate covered strawberry flavored. Sounded delicious to me, so I ignored the capitalized “Thin” and the various other blurbs about how now you can have your dessert and eat it too and other marketing bullet points that alluded to real pleasure suppression as the avenue to weight loss.
:::Steps off soap box:::
If I’d have seen this ingredient list before I tossed it in my shopping basket I would have probably put it back on the shelf. Very little real food in there. There are 0 grams of sugar and 15 grams of protein and the bar clocks in a 200 calories. Those are pretty good stats…as long as it tastes good. (I think you know where this is going.)
Appearance: A nice size. Covered in a chocolate coating that appears a bit waxy and fake but nothing too alarming.
Texture: Soft, pasty, and homogenous. Reminds me a bit of marzipan with the smooth but subtle grittiness.
Taste: Oh. My. GAD. GROSS!! This is the single worst bar I’ve ever tasted so far in my life. It’s like a giant squishy metallic-tasting vitamin paste covered in colored beeswax. But what about the strawberry flavor, you ask? Nearly non-existant. It tastes a bit like if they took that thick gluey strawberry glaze you get on top of diner cheesecakes, mixed it with cherry cough syrup, diluted and aerosolized it, and then misted it around the room that the bars were made in. Faint but distinctly gross.
Overall, the one word I would have to use to describe this bar is OFFENSIVE. Not just offensive in flavor, but I am genuinely offended that anyone would have the gall to market this a satisfying and healthy dessert replacement. At 200 calories, you could probably eat 2 or even 3 real chocolate covered strawberries and be putting healthier things in your body than this fake crap. It saddens me to imagine that some poor woman might choke down this awful concoction in lieu of a real dessert because she thinks this is all she can have.
This bar was pretty cheap and I still feel like I got ripped off.
I don’t like those either!
oh no! those are my fav, but i only like the chocolate toffee. the pb made me gag.
Oh, honey, I can’t help giggling at your misfortune, because I remember trying these ThinkThin bars when I was in the States and finding them horrific too! Just. So. Ugh!
ewwww!!! I was told to try those. thank you so much for saving me some money! pasty and gritty? ahhh how does that end up on the shelf! if I want cardboard I will eat cardboard
ps: I wont eat cardboard =)
I giggled at this post, too, because your description is so tragically accurate. I *just* took a bite of this bar, and it tasted like a repulsive combination of a dissolved multivitamin and strawberry orthodontic paste. Coincidentally, I responded to the bite with the gag reflex that is also triggered by orthodontic impression trays. Ugh…
Worst. Bar. Ever. It’s like they were trying to make it as gross as possible.