On a Quest.

I don't often devote full posts to product reviews, but I think this company and product deserve as many positive reviews as possible, so without further ado I give you a full post on Quest Bars. Specifically, I will focus on the most recent flavour that I have tried: Cookie Dough.

First let me say that I honestly don't know how these guys (and girls) do it! How do you make a product with such good macros taste so good? Whatever their secret is, they succeeded. I first tried Quest bars almost  a year ago. Either Ryan or I stumbled across them while searching for awesome protein bars. I'm always in the market for a good protein bar and have tried many. To me at first, this was just another bar I would try, find ok, and move on...until I actually tried my first one. Then I knew I had found a gem.

Quest Cookie Dough: So excited when this arrived!!

Macros: As with the whole Quest bar line, the macros are just amazing.
Cal: 190
Pro: 21 g
Carbs: 21 g  (* Only 3g net carbs *)
Fat: 8 g
Fiber: 17 g

Taste: Amazing! Really, this stuff tastes like actual cookie dough. I don't know how they do it. The bar has pieces of chocolate in it for the chocolate chips and basically tastes just like my mommy's cookie dough (which I always snuck spoonfuls of when I was a kid!). And if you heat it up it tastes like warm cookie dough! Ryan also really likes these! I was quite surprised as he tends to think protein bars that I love are just "ok". He rarely is as shocked as I am to find something he likes so much, but he did with these!

Beautiful.

What impresses me even more about the taste is that I liked them even before I had tried all of the various bars and shakes that I've currently tried. The reason I think this makes a difference is that tastes can adapt and they are definitely relative. When you try a protein bar you're basically going to compare it to other protein bars you've had, which admittedly over half of the ones I've tried are pretty gross. So if the flavour is ok to good, you have a winner. Personally, I think these taste great regardless of only being pitted against other protein bars. Yes, they are a clear winner in this category, but I would also put them against snack bars, sweets, granola bars, breakfast bars etc that are not stacked with protein. My bet is that Quest bars would still win.

Cookie dough heaven!

Texture/consistency: This is the part that really shocked me for two reasons:

1. There is actually a softness AND grittiness to the bar to mimic real cookie dough. Before baking the sugar granuals in cookie dough make for a grainy, but not crunchy texture to the dough. This is very hard to mimic without sugar or a lot of sugar substitute (I've tried several times!), but they did it without added sugar!
2. The bar is actually pretty soft itself without heating. Most people who have tasted Quest bars know that the secret is to heat the bar in a microwave from between 15-18s. Something happens during the heating process to transform the bar from pretty hard to chew to soft and gooey. Again, it's magic to me. Typically I eat the Chocolate Brownie bar, which is (was!) my favourite. I never mind heating it of course, because it always justs tastes like a warm brownie after I do. However the cookie dough Quest bar actually has a great texture heated or unheated.

Chocolate Brownie!!!

Some of my other favourites include: Chocolate Brownie and Cinnamon Roll. Ryan likes the Peanut Butter Supreme (which I haven't tried yet shockingly!). We were sent a new flavour of Banana Nut and am excited to try that as well!