Annie's Organic Berry Berry

Annie's Organic Berry Berry

0.98 oz / 28g 

Ingredients: organic toasted whole oats, organic brown rice syrup, organic rice crisp, organic palm oil, organic dried berries, organic tapioca starch, natural flavor. 

Calories: 120
Cals from fat: 30
Total Fat: 3g (5%)
Sat Fat: 1g (5%)
Sodium: 0mg (0%)
Total Carb: 20g (7%)
Fiber: 1g (4%)
Sugar: 6g
Protein: 2g

Pretty standard chewy granola bar, but tough as nails. I again wondered if I'd missed the expiration date, and again was disappointed to learn it is a ways off.  The bar tastes great, but the texture is just lousy. 

Annie's Organic Peanutty

Annie's Organic Peanutty

0.98 oz / 28g 

Ingredients: organic toasted whole oats, organic brown rice syrup, organic peanut butter, organic rice crisp, organic honey, organic palm oil, organic peanuts, natural vanilla and peanut flavor, organic tapioca starch, sea salt. 

Calories: 120
Cals from fat: 45
Total Fat: 5g (8%)
Sat Fat: 1g (5%)
Sodium: 50mg (2%)
Total Carb: 17g (6%)
Fiber: 1g (4%)
Sugar: 5g
Protein: 3g 

I really wanted to like this bar, and the taste is ok but it has the stalest texture - sort of half crunchy / half chewy. I immediately went looking for the date, which is still 6 months off and therefore this must be relatively fresh, or so they'd like me to think. Eating the bar belies it. It is a relatively innocuous tasting, small bar that is reminiscent of lots of standard chewy granola bars, but I'm wondering if maybe the oats weren't toasted properly or something else went horribly wrong to give it this stale character. Not an offensive bar, and a laudable ingredients list, but certainly not great. 

Planters NUT-rition Cranberry Almond Peanut

Planters NUT-rition Cranberry Almond Peanut

1.23 oz / 35g (5 for $3.29, Harris Teeter)

Ingredients: peanuts, whole grain rolled oats, almonds, corn syrup, crisped rice, evaporated cane juice invert syrup, peanut butter, dried cranberries, sugar, brown sugar, soy lecithin, oligofructose, salt, vegetable oil, malic acid, TBHQ.

Calories: 160
Cals from fat: 70
Total Fat: 8g (12%)
Sat Fat: 1g (5%)
Sodium: 130mg (5%)
Total Carb: 19g (6%)
Fiber: 3g (12%)
Sugar: 9g
Protein: 5g 

This is a really standard, generic chewy granola bar. Fruits, nuts, granola all stuck together and lopped into rectangles. If you dig cranberries you'll dig this bar. Very little chemical taste, but something about the cranberries sort of reminded me of it. Not terribly exciting, but you can taste everything which is good and it has a totally "standard" chewy/slightly dry texture that is totally uncontroversial. Totally decent.