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This week we sampled Kashi Go Lean Crunchy! Protein & Fiber Bars and Crunchmaster Oven Baked Multi-Seed Crackers. Check out our slideshow to find out if these foods met the Inside Crunch standards.
Autumn brings a harvest of treats brimming with dried fruit, nuts, heart-healthy fats, and a dollop of good-for-you bacteria that promises to make it all digest nicely. Read on…it’s a cornucopia for conscientious snackers. Read More
Category: Breakfast crunch cereal
Crunch factor: Slightly less than a solid crunch
Taste: We dove into this puffed whole wheat, toasted oat, and corn cereal with expectations of a guilt-free, grown-up Cap’n Crunch. Alas, our inner children made pouty faces when the puffed whole wheat deflated in milk and the honey sweetness proved elusive. Though the label received our dietitian’s approval—with 130 calories, 1.5 grams of fat, and 3 grams of fiber for a 3/4 serving—our testers banged their spoons for something yummier. Read More
Category: Sweet treat
Crunch factor: Slightly undercrunched
Taste: This probiotic chocolate bar, which claims five times the live active cultures of yogurt, won’t fool chocolate purists, but it gave our chocoholic panel its fix. The dark chocolate was bitter to some, but the majority of tasters enjoyed the slight crunch of the brown-rice crisps and the authentic chocolate flavor. Be careful, though, because this chocolate bar may pack on pounds while aiding your digestion: Each contains a whopping 4 grams of saturated fat. Read More
Category: Wild card
Crunch factor: Not in the same zip code as crunchy
Taste: Described as a cookie, these snacks looked and tasted more like desiccated oat-bran muffins. The mealy texture had most tasters reaching for a glass of water—and agreeing they’d rather eat pistachios and then have a “real” cookie. However, one rebel enjoyed them and asked for more. Read More
Category: Savory snack
Crunch factor: Solid crunch
Taste: This toss of granola, dried cherries, nuts, and hard-to-define textures got the silent treatment from our panel—and that’s a good thing. Each salty-sweet bite packed a hearty combo of pistachios, almonds, granola, and cherries. Yep, it’s fatty and sweet, but our dietitian expert declared it monosaturated, so nosh away. Read More
This week we crunched our way through a peanut-butter granola bar, a pumpkin-seed-and-cheddar cracker, and an eight-grain crisp. Happy munching! Read More
Category: Savory snack
Crunch factor: Solid crunch
Taste: Eek! Strange, bright orange powder on these thin, rice cake–like crisps manages to be tangy, hot, sweet, and sour—and unappetizing—all at once. The Peppadew, says Wikipedia, is the brand name of “sweet piquanté peppers grown in the Limpopo province of South Africa.” They’re basically pickled peppers, but marketed as fruit—what the Sensible Portions bag calls “the NEWEST fruit in the world.” The eight grains in the chip are hardly detectable over the orange din. Read More
Category: Sweet treat
Crunch factor: Very crunchy
Taste: The highlight of this bar is the crunchy yet chewy whole-oats quality, hinting of Scottish oatcakes. On top of that is a mild, slightly underwhelming peanut flavor. They have a honeyed sweetness. Read More
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