Alpen Raspberry & Yogurt Bars
947 days agoLol, it is inevitable that I will come and review this. I mean, which self-respecting “health” guy doesn’t? Museli bars are all the rage in Singapore. Everyone is buying them by the packs like nobody’s business. It is ironic that the same group of people buying these Museli bars also went and purchase boxes of chocolates, ice cream and other unhealthy snacks. Sadly, it doesn’t work that way. First of all, I have nothing against eating chocolate, sweets or ice cream. However, you have to do that in moderation. Eating tons of sweets and chocolate and thinking that consuming some museli bars on the way is not healthy. It is like eating fatty foods and then believing that eating a piece of lettuce will remove all the fats from your body. If you want those extra calories to go away, you will need to burn them off and the best way to do that is to exercise. You won’t get it by eating some cabbage.
Anyway, this is something which I would consider a guilt reprieve. Just like those ladies drinking “slim” or “no-fat” milk and believing that they will become slim in no time, which is kind of sad. We have this mistaken notion that flashy labels on foodstuff means exactly what they say. Ladies, low fat milk does not make you slim, and most of the nutrients in the milk which makes milk a healthy foodstuff is in the milk fat!
Photo of the Alpen Raspberry & Yogurt. Looks very tempting, doesn’t it? Check out the nice fresh looking raspberries and the healthy looking golden wheat!
Even Tastier! Now with 30% more fruit! Cool!
Okay, this is a mixed cereal bar with apple and raspberry, dipped and drizzled with a yogurt flavour coating. What does it mean when they say “yogurt flavour coating”? Why not just state that it is yogurt? Probably means that there is significantly less “yogurt” in the white coloured coating then what you expect. Yes, the rest of the ingredients for the coating should be sugar or some sweetener. The net weight for each bar is 29g. Yes, very little.
Oh, store your bars in a cool dry and odourless place. Err…like your handbag.
Hehehehe, these delicious, moist and chewy Alpen bars provide a tasty snack at any time of the day. With six tempting flavours to choose from, you are spolit for choice. Yes indeed. Just go to any of our local supermarkets and you will be greeted with a wide range of such cereal/museli bars to choice from. Sometimes, I just get so confused that I never bother to even read the labels.
And check out the big green tick at the bottom! It must mean something good.
Here we have the nutrition table.
Here we have the ingredients list. Cereals (33% – Rice, Whole Oats, Whole Wheat), Glucose Syrup, Sugar, Vegetable Oil, Fruit Juice Concentrates (Grape, Raspberry (0.8%)), Dried Apple pieces (4.5%), Humectant – Glycerol, Milk Lactose, Milk Yogurt Powder (2.5%), Dextrose, Wheat Gluten, Freeze Dried Raspberry (0.8%), Skimmed Milk Powder, Maize Starch, Malted Barley Extract, Milk Whey Powder, Emulsifier: Soya Lechithin, Defatted Wheat Germ, Flavourings, Salt, Acidity Regulator: Malic Acid, Antioxidant: Topcopherols. Confusing? Hell yes. Good? Maybe not. Too much skim milk and defatted stuff. In other words, too many processed ingredients.
Oh, before I forgot, this product contains wheat, barley, oats, milk, soya and sulphites and may contain traces of nuts. So if you are allergic to these kind of food, stay away!
Okay, now we have one bar of this Alpen Raspberry and Yogurt cereal bar. Again, it looks heavenly.
Once you open the shiny pack, you will find the cereal bar, all ready for you to consume. I find it a bit sweet tasting to me. In fact, all the Alpen cereal bars seemed a little too sweet. But overall, I do find it pretty delicious.
