Luna Bar: Peanut Butter Cookie

Price: $2.00 (on sale)
Serving: 1 bar, 48g
Calories: 180 per bar
  Calories from fat: 50
Fat: 9%, 6g
  Saturated Fat: 15%, 3g
  Trans Fat: 0%, 0g
Cholesterol: 0%, 0mg
Sodium: 6%, 150mg
Protein: 10g
Total Carbohydrates: 9%, 23g
  Fiber: 12%, 3g
  Sugar: 12g
Weight Watchers Points: 3 Points

Luna Bar says: A delicious cookie crunch with rich flavors of sweet, creamy peanut butter

Abi says: I need to stop buying energy bars that have ‘cookie’ in their names. They do not look like cookies or taste like cookies or even smell like cookies.

I can forgive the first issue. Luna energy bars are bars, thus the bar shape. They’re also coated in what appears to be a peanut buttery icing. Instead, it is an evil trap of sugar (er, evaporated cane juice) oil, soy flour and vanilla. Because peanut butter cookies come with icing? What? This bar contains more of that coating than actual peanut butter!

I buy peanut butter energy bars because the flavor of peanut butter is so rich and overwhelming that it can kill people:

Peanut Allergy Sign by Dan4th

But the peanut note is in not way strong in this bar. I’d say it is merely subtly peanutty. And instead of that marvelous legume we have a whole different taste/smell issue. LunaPro, the grain-based, protein-rich foundation for this bar. LunaPro is the ingredient that assaults the senses and says ‘This is fake! This is not a cookie! This is not a granola bar! This is not going to taste good!’. And I have to go with my taste buds on this one: the peanut butter cookie bar is an item to be avoided.

Ingredients: LunaPro (Soy Rice Crisp [Soy Protein isolate, Organic Rice Flour], Organic Toasted oats, Organic Roasted Soybeans, Organic Soy Flour, Organic Flaxmeal), Organic Brown Rice Syrup, Organic Coating (Organic Evaporated Cane Juice, Organic Palm Kernel Oil, Organic Soy Flour, Organic Soy Lecithin, Organic Vanilla), Organic Peanut Butter, Inulin (Chicory Extracat), Vegetable Glycerin, Natural Flavors, Organic Roasted Peanuts, Peanut Flour, Sea Salt.

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Posted on December 11, 2008
Categories: Cholesterol Free, Contains Nuts, Energy Bars, High Fructose Corn Syrup Free, Luna Bar, One Star, Peanut Butter, Three Points, Vegetarian

Nutter Butters

Price: 75¢
Serving: 1.9oz., 4 cookies
Calories: 250
Fat: 15%, 10g
Cholesterol: 0%, 0mg
Sodium: 9%, 210mg
Protein: 4g
Carbohydrates: 3%, 8g
Fiber: 12%, 3g
Sugar: 15g
Weight Watchers Points: 6 points

Nutter Butters says: Peanut Butter sandwich cookies made with real peanut butter.

Abi says: Nutter Butters are a one note cookie. Sure, they provide a layer of crisp cookie and a creamy filling, but both layers taste like off-brand peanut butter. I’m not sure why I even got excited about eating these. I love peanut butter, but it would have been much more satisfying to have the real thing rather than these cookie imitators.

Nutter Butters are much better in my memory than they are in real life. Sure, the peanut shaped cookies are adorable. But you can’t eat adorable.

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Posted on October 3, 2007
Categories: Cookies, Kraft, Peanut Butter, Six Points, Two Stars, Vegan, Vegetarian