Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Luna Lemon Zest

Luna Lemon Zest ($0.99, Harris Teeter)
1.69 oz / 48g

Ingredients: soy rice crisps, organic toasted oats, organic roasted soybeans, organic soy flour, organic oatmeal, organic brown rice syrup, organic dried cane syrup, palm kernel oil, organic palm kernel oil, organic soy lecithin, organic vanilla, inulin, lemon fruit pieces, organic soy butter, organic oat syrup solids, vegetable glycerin, organic sunflower oil, natural flavor, organic natural flavors, citric acid, sea salt.

Calories: 180
Calories from fat: 45
Fat: 5g (8%)
Sat. Fat: 2.5g (13%)
Sodium: 115mg (5%)
Total Carb: 27g (9%)
Fiber: 3g (12%)
Sugars: 13g
Protein: 9g 

Man, I am feeling lucky today. I have taken my lemons and made both natural flavor and organic natural flavors. This is a granola bar sitting in a bed of icing. It immediately smells like those lemon cookies you might have had as a kid - like an oreo but with lemon icing in the middle of two vanilla cookies. I could only wish it tasted that good - in fact it is waaaaay more lemony and less vanilla-y. This isn't a bad bar but whoa, nellie is it ever lemony! I think the icing is really a bridge too far; I think it might be better if it were a little less sweet. Can't recommend it. 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Aren't Luna bars marketed "for Women"? Did that influence your taste in anyway?

rob said...

they are marked 'for women' but I find they are pretty tasty nonetheless. I'm not sure what would make them womany but whatever it is, sometimes I have it and sometimes I don't.