RxBar - Coconut Chocolate bar - July 2, 2017

Chocolate of the Day: 

Distributed by Chicago Bar Company LLC
RxBar - Coconut Chocolate
Good - Good +
Weight: 1.83 oz. (52 g.) in 1 bar
Calories: 210 calories in 1 bar
Cost: $2.99 (estimate) for 1 bar
Purchased from: missing information

Welcome to Day #4 of Chocolate and Coconut Theme Week.

When it comes to snacks and confections, the watchwords for the 21st century have been a return to simplicity, health, and transparency about labeling.

Today's RxBar Coconut Chocolate protein bar (distributed by Chicago Bar Company LLC, Chicago, IL) is a great example of a bar you might not have seen very often in the 1990s.

The relatively short ingredients list for the bar base read like a manifesto and received headline treatment on the wrapper: "3 Egg Whites, 6 Almonds, 4 Cashews, 2 Dates, No B.S."..."No Gluten, No Soy, No Dairy, No Added Sugar," it continued. Today's bar also included cacao, coconut and sea salt.

This bar was a well balanced blend of subtle fruit, nut, cacao and coconut flavors; and it was chewy, substantial and delightfully un-sweet.

Torn Ranch - Dark Chocolate Covered Coconut - July 1, 2017

Chocolate of the Day: 

Torn Ranch
Dark Chocolate Covered Coconut
Good+
Weight: .75 oz. (21.25 g.) / 1.5 oz. (42.5 g.) in total package
Calories: 110 calories in 1/2 package
Cost: $3.99 for 1 package
Purchased from: Draeger's Market, Los Altos, CA

Welcome to Day #3 of Chocolate and Coconut Theme Week.

Today's high-end Dark Chocolate Covered Coconut confection was from Torn Ranch (Petaluma, CA).

What tasted like toasted, crunchy golden brown coconut pieces were coated with 72% cacao dark chocolate.

The chocolate tasted darker and richer and of higher quality than most large-scale offerings; and this combination was one of my favorite items this week.