I guess if I'm going to try to get more fiber in my diet, a chewy "granola bar" is a lot more fun than a bowl of cereal, especially when granola bars these days, taste a lot like candy.
As you all know, water and fiber are two things that have been lacking in my diet, and if you didn't know, well, now you do. FiberOne Chewy Bars are a product from the same General Mills line that makes the Fiber One Raisin Bran Clusters that I taste-tested last week. They come in two flavors: Oats and Chocolate and Oats and Peanut Butter. According to the package, these bars have 35% of the daily value of fiber that I should be consuming. That's quite a claim! I could eat three of these and eat steak and vanilla ice cream for the rest of the day!
I have to say that if Fiber One Chewy Bars were going for any other market besides the 30-35 year old, highly mobile, time-strapped, desperate-out-of-nutrition-depletion, they wouldn't do very well. But for me, their box with the giant logo that screams out "FIBER!" sure made sense! The wrappers on the individual bars were that exciting, too.
Packaging and marketing aside, the most important part of this Test is how it tastes, particularly how it stacks up against other chewy bars that may nto provide as much fibrous benefits. I tried the Oats and Chocolate ( I am not a huge fan of peanut butter). The bar itself looks like any other chewy granola bar, with lots of oats, rice and other grains. It isn't coated in chocolate, but does have chocolate chips, and is drizzled with chocolate on top.
When I pulled the bar apart, it was obvious that there was some sticky sugary ingredient that was holding everything together. Apart from its fiber content, the bar couldn't possibly be a part of a low-sugar diet.
The bar is chewy, and with all the grains, definitely tasted like it was full of fiber. However, it was way too sweet. Even with just a drizzle of chocolate on top (which I doubt was all that sweet), it was almost as sweet as a candy bar. I guess sweetness has to compensate in some way for the high fiber content in order for it to taste goo to the general public. I could have done without the chocolate, both chips and drizzle, and about half the 10g of sugar in each 140 calorie bar.
Overall, it wasn't a bad bar. If they were in my pantry, I wouldn't be opposed to snapping one up for a quick commute-fast (breakfast in the car on the way to work), but it was a little too sweet for me to go to the store and buy my own.
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