Met-Rx Bars - "Big 100"

[DeadLiftZ]

MetRx Bars have recently been renamed to Big 100 bars and are apart of MetRx's "Total Nutrition Series" line.

I admit openly to being addicted to thier Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough bars - of the previous packaging and ingredients - and because they did not contain partially hydrogenated oils and other weird crap, I bought them frequently.

So yesterday I decide to buy a box of the new line, naively thinking that the ingredients weren't changed or added to. Oh well, my bad.

The first thing I notice is the sugar content. It jumped from 29 grams to 39 grams. Not a big deal, really, since I expect a bar that tastes this good to have lots of sugar. It balances itself with the 27g of protein.

Next, the actual ingredients: First ingredient listed is corn syrup. Not cool, used to be the protein blend.

Next is the protein blend, and you'll notice the second to last ingredient is "Partially Hydrolyzed Soybean Oil". I did a search on Partially Hydrolyzed OILS and came up blank, save for a few entries on Hydrolyzed Protein, which I wasn't concerned with. Can anyone point to a source of info on HYDROLYZED oils rather than HYDROGENATED? My eyes are trained to skim ingredients and pick out HYDGROGENATED not HYDROLYZED, so I overlooked this when I was looking at the box. That pissed me off to no end, since I'm sure it's the same thing.

Next - there's SHELLAC in this friggin bar! Yes, Shellac, to give it a glaze. I don't feel like poisoning myself to quench my hunger...

Finally - the ultimate test - the bar itself sucked SUCKED. Bland, tasted like vanilla and not chocolate, it wasn't glazed at all and rather stiff, and the damned experiation date was 03/03, so it shouldn't have been this stiff yet. I expect it to spoil after about 6 months, but not this soon.

So I'm not satisfied with MetRx's "improvements" or product enhancements. This is unfortunate that they would take these kind of shortcuts to pay for upgraded packaging and marketing schemes.

Any feedback on this is appreciated.

 

[DeadLiftZ]

Ingredients

Here's the ingredients for the aforementioned bar from Metrx's website.

INGREDIENTS: Corn Syrup , METAMYOSYN® Protein Blend (Milk Protein Concentrate, Calcium Sodium Caseinate, Whey Protein Isolate, Whey Protein Concentrate, Dried Egg White, Partially Hydrolyzed Soybean Oil , L-Glutamine), Chocolate Chips [Chocolate Drops (Sugar, Chocolate Liquor, Cocoa Butter, Dextrose, Soy Lecithin, Salt, Artificial Flavor), Confectioner’s Glaze (Shellac , Beeswax), Gum Arabic, Corn Syrup], Vitamins and Minerals (Potassium Chloride, Magnesium Oxide, Tricalcium Phosphate, Beta-Carotene, Ascorbic Acid, d-Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate, Niacinamide, Ferrous Fumarate, Dicalcium Phosphate, Retinyl Palmitate, Zinc Oxide, Calcium D-Pantothenate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Riboflavin, Manganese Sulfate, Thiamin Mononitrate, Copper Gluconate, Folic Acid, Biotin, Sodium Molybdate, Potassium Iodide, Phytonadione, Sodium Selenite, Cyanocobalamin), Natural and Artificial Flavors, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Vanilla Crème (Fructose, Maltodextrin, Water, Modified Corn Starch, Salt, Carrageenan, Natural Flavors), Glycerin, Brown Sugar.

 

[Cuts]

Forget Met-Rx, forget all the other bars... Meso-Tech Peanut Butter and ESPECIALLY Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough bars are fucking INCREDIBLE!

 

[chillin408]

The Metrx nutrition bars are the worst tasting high carb bars I have ever had. If your OK with the carbs, there are much better tasting and probably healthly high carb bars.

 

[MASSIVEmorris]

Personally, I take a liking toward the "Lean Body" bars by Labrada...yummy!

 

[plornive]

I used to buy bars until I reallized they are just overpriced globs of shit that make me feel sick and hungry at the same time. Practically anything is better.

 

[Cuts]

I used to buy bars until I reallized they are just overpriced globs of shit that make me feel sick and hungry at the same time. Practically anything is better.

WAIT BRO! You HAVE to try the MESO-TECH CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE DOUGH bar before you make such a statement.