Quest Cravings Review

Today at lunch I went to the store to pick up some Quest Bars for the week. I usually make sure to have a few on hand every week to snack on as breakfast when I work or for Cross Country meets. The store I buy them at is running a sale that is about 20 cents cheaper per bar than normal. I realized their Quest Cravings Peanut Butter Cups were on sale too, which are normally almost a dollar more. I decided to give them a try. Before we get into the actual review, I’ll give a rundown of the macros for this. For 2 cups it’s setting you back about 240 calories, 17 grams of (healthy) fat, 20 grams of protein, 1 gram of sugar, 3 grams of fiber and about 10 carbs (4 net) Not bad for a dessert item, but still a little high in calories but understandable due to the content of fats coming from peanuts and cashews.
At first bite, the chocolate tasted like the chocolate chunks they put in the cookie dough bars and chocolate chunk bars, which I love because they have a certain sweet yet salty contrast. Then I started to taste the peanut butter filling. It tasted just like a real Reese’s cup at first, but then it started to taste really thick and chalky sort of like when you don’t mix a protein shake all the way and get a glob of protein powder. It was crumbly and had a drier consistency than a real Reese’s cup. They don’t taste too bad, but I’d rather eat a Quest Bar if I wanted to eat something dessert-like.  If I were really craving something sweet, I’d buy actual Reese’s cups. They are actually lower in calories and fat than these Quest Cravings. Sure I wouldn’t exactly be “eating clean” but I’d work it into a cheat meal or something. Reese’s are about half the price of the Quest Cups too.  
As we all know, I love Quest Nutrition’s products but this time I wasn’t exactly blown away. Overall, I’d give them a 7/10 because they managed to get the crumbly peanut butter taste in the first bite but the thick chalky texture afterwards was really hard to get past.  (382)