Review: Combat Crunch Bar — Chocolate Peanut Butter
The Chocolate Peanut Butter Combat Crunch Bars are love at first bite for peanut butter lovers.
If you love Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups but hate looking like Jabba the Hutt, then this bar by MusclePharm, is the choice for you.
No chemically taste, no weird mushy “I wonder what this is made of” texture, easy to disguise as a snickers like bar to your friends and it comes with a tasty peanut butter flavour.
While it isn’t our favorite Chocolate-PB combo on the market (that title goes to the Pure Fit Peanut Butter Crunch bar), MusclePharm Chocolate Peanut Butter is still one of the better peanut butter protein bars out there. It deserves much credit because PB protein bars are really tough to pull off.
Good macros, and 20 grams of protein. This bar is a meal which is much the same as the other bars in the Combat Crunch series.
We sliced a bar and sprinkled the pieces onto our morning porridge…it works so well that our banana will never be lonely again:
The Macro Profile
What’s in them?
Protein Blend (Whey Protein Isolate, Milk Protein Isolate), Isomalto-Oligosaccharide (Prebiotic Fiber), Vegetable Oils (Palm, Palm Kernel Oil), Sugar, Vegetable Glycerin, Water, Maltitol, Cocoa (Processed With Alkali), Tapioca Starch, Soy Protein Isolate, and Natural Flavors., Contains Less Than 2% Of: Almonds, Rice Flour, Resistant Maltodextrin, Molasses, Salt, Soy Lecithin, Caramel Color, Cinnamon, Non-Fat Milk Solids, Whole Milk Solids, Baking Soda, Xanthan Gum, Annatto, Peanuts, and Sucralose.
Allergy Information: Contains milk, soy, almond and peanut. This product is manufactured on equipment that also processes milk, soy, wheat, tree nut, peanut and egg products.
What does MusclePharm say about them?
Combat Crunch™ baked protein bars are made using a proprietary baking process for superior taste and a softer texture. The bars are high protein, with low active carbs and tons of fiber. Unlike hard-paste, “taffy-like” sports bars, Combat Crunch™ is like eating a soft-batch cookie.
The Good Snacks verdict?
Not sure we can agree with the self assessment of ‘like eating a soft-batch cookie’ as the bar we had was more like a nougat. That said, I like nougat and the bar definitely filled the hole. In fact, I needed two attempts to polish it off ;)
