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Earlier this month, Erich did a personal taste test review of several of his favorite food bars. He included the Odwalla Food Bar, and said that he likes it.

Well, I have to disagree with his positive assessment of the Odwalla Food Bar. I tried the Superfood, which I knew from the get-go that I wasn't going to love because it's called "Superfood!" Nonetheless, Odwalla has a reputation for making fruits and vegetables taste pretty good as drinks, so I tried it anyway. As chewy as it was, I would have expected a moistness to it, but it was very very dry. I had to drink water with every bite. I think I'd rather "spend" 240 calories on something that tastes a little better.

The 230-calorie Cranberry C Monster was better, only because I could actually recognize the cranberries in the bar. Again, it was chewy, slightly sticky, yet still fairly dry. Because it is sticky, you have to eat it out of the wrapper, which means it makes a lot of "crinkle crinkle" noise, as opposed to removing the entire bar from the wrapper.

Both bars, however, were not as overly sweet as some other bars, and definitely has a lots of vitamins and other "good" stuff."