Fiber One™ Oats & Chocolate – Delicious and a lot of fiber!
Written: Jun 01 '08
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Pros: Delicious flavor, basically like a chocolate candy bar!
Cons: Not a tremendously healthy alternative, but better than candy bars with more fiber!
The Bottom Line: These bars are nice to eat, have a delicious flavor and provide 35% of the daily value in fiber! A great way to get more fiber!
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| Magick1's Full Review: Fiber One Oats and Chocolate Chewy Bars |
I look for decent ways to get more fiber for myself and occasionally for my daughter. We try to regularly eat at home and try to ensure that we are getting good fiber from vegetables and fruits. But, with our crazy schedules, karate classes 3 nights a week and other errands, it gets difficult sometimes. One day a co-worker introduced me to the Fiber One Oats & Chocolate chewy bar a few months back. I fell in love! This allowed me 35% of my daily value of fiber and tasted just like a candy bar!
Wow, that’s pretty awesome, right? Well, it’s a little better than some candy bars out on the market in ways. But, the redeeming factor, I think, is the amount of fiber, as most candy bars provide you nothing but sugars and empty calories. This, at least, provides some benefit and tastes great too! There are a lot of studies out there that Americans are not getting enough fiber in their diets. Have you noticed how many commercials are out there for fiber pills, mix in products and other things? This is one of these products, and if you have to use them, at least they taste good!
The Product
The bar is 4 inches long, 1 ¼ inches wide and ½ an inch thick. When you open up the package, I think you will be surprised by the amount of chocolate chips that you see covering the bar and the chocolate streaking across the top of the bar. It appears to be 2 types of chocolate. But, the drizzled looking chocolate could be chicory root extract, as it has a sweeter flavor, like chocolate and a little hint of caramel. The stream of chocolate (or chicory root extract) drizzled along the top looks like a milk chocolate and the chocolate chips appear to be darker in color so they might have more cocoa in the chips. I am not sure.
This is a typical looking chewy, granola-type bar otherwise. You can see oats, crisped rice and the appearance is very appetizing! This is supposed to be a chewy granola bar. I find that it is chewy and not hard like the typical granola bars that are crunchy! But, don’t get me wrong, the crunch of the oats and the crisped rice is there!
The flavor is very nice. Honestly, if you need a sweet tooth fix, this is just like a candy bar in flavor, truly! I was surprised at how delicious it was. I felt bad eating it, thinking I was eating candy. But, I was getting extra fiber in my diet and it wasn’t completely terrible in calories, fat, and other things.
The box that we purchase is from the warehouse store and we get plenty of these bars in a box. All of the bars are individually wrapped making them easy to store in an emergency kit in your house (for bad weather), in the car (but they chocolate chips will melt if hot) or to grab for a quite bit on the road running between sports, chores, errands or whatever! You can even take some into work and store them in your desk. They appear to have a decent shelf life. I just purchased a couple of boxes of these a couple of weeks ago and the expiration date stamped on the wrapper shows 09SEP08.
The Ingredients
Chickory root extract, chocolate chips with confectioners shellac (chocolate chips [sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, dextrose, milk fat, soy lecithin], ethanol, shellac, hydrogenated coconut oil), rolled oats, crisp rice (rice flour, sugar, malt, salt), barley flakes, high maltose corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, canola oil, honey, glycerin, maltodextrin, palm kernel oil, tricalcium phosphate, soy lecithin, salt, nonfat milk, peanut oil, cocoa processed with alkali, natural flavor, baking soda, color added, almond flour, peanut flour, sunflower meal, wheat flour, mixed tocopherols added to retain freshness.
Contains: soy, milk, almond, peanut, sunflower and wheat ingredients.
Nutritional Facts
This is based upon a standard 2,000 calorie diet with the information below being 1 serving only (which is 1 bar which is 40g). (DV = daily value)
Calories 140 Calories from Fat 35
Total Fat 4g (6% DV)
Saturated Fat 1.5g (9% DV)
Trans Fat 0g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.5g
Monounsaturated Fat 1.5g
Cholesterol 0mg (0% DV)
Sodium 90mg (4%)
Total Carbohydrate 29g (10%)
Dietary Fiber 9g (35% DV)
Sugars 10g
Protein 2g
Vitamin A (2% DV)
Vitamin C (0% DV)
Calcium (10% DV)
Iron (2%DV)
Carbohydrate choices: 2
Overall Impressions
I truly enjoy the flavor of these chewy bars. I also love that they have 35% of your daily intake of fiber in 1 bar! The flavor and the amount of calories is acceptable to me, as when I have a sweet tooth, I find this bar satisfies my sweet tooth nicely without being completely empty calories. I am getting a little bit of value (in fiber) from these bars!
The easy portability and the price make these bars terrific for our on the go lifestyle. My daughter still gets grumpy if she hasn’t had a snack between lunch and dinner, especially if dinner is late due to karate class. Therefore, I will let her choose different snacks and occasionally give this option to her so she feels like she is getting a treat (rather than just fruit or vegetables like I normally do).
If you are looking for a delicious way to curb a sweet tooth and can use a bit more fiber in your daily diet, this might be a decent, tasty option to try. I know that I was pleasantly surprised when one of the VP’s at my work place dropped one off at my desk to try!
~Thanks for spending time with me today!~
Here are some other healthier items that I have reviewed to check out if you want:
Kashi Cherry Dark Chocolate, Kashi Honey Almond Flax,Kashi Honey & Cinnamon Go Lean Oatmeal, Kashi Truly Vanilla Go Lean Oatmeal,Kashi Mountain Medley Granola,Kashi Vive Cereal
Recommended:
Yes
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