Quest Bar Apple Pie – Low Carb, High Protein Bars that are High Fiber and Gluten Free – Box of 12, 25.44 oz
3Quest Bar Apple Pie – Low Carb, High Protein Bars that are High Fiber and Gluten Free – Box of 12, 25.44 oz
- 20 grams of high quality protein
- Only 6 grams of non-fiber carbs all from nuts
- 18 grams of dietary fiber
- Only 170 calories
Quest bars are the perfect nutrition bar for anyone looking to get top quality protein while dropping some carbs from their diet. They’re as delicious and convenient as a candy bar, while maintaining all of the nutrition of a carefully prepared meal that’s packed with fiber to make you feel full and to help with digestion and weight loss.
List Price: $ 28.63
Price: $ 19.49
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ALL: Every single Flavor of Quest bars reviewed; Real apple bits.. pretty good,
UPDATE:May 2013:
Apple pie is now my 4th fav after cookie dough, banana muffin and mixed berry.
In short, the All natural line has less sweetener after taste, except for some flavors like Apple Pie and Mixed Berry Bliss, which still taste great despite the sucralose and not having stevia. I have gravitated to Apple pie and Mixed berry as my favorites, as the bars stay reasonably moist. The apple bits are real and I haven’t tired of the taste. The unusual thing is, I can’t taste the sweetener aftertaste. Plus its only 170 Cals
NEW LINE (STEVIA)
1.Strawberry cheesecake all natural line
The first my wife and I tried. Chewy, quite filling, mildly sweet, not extremely delicious, 160 cal **** taste B+
2.Cinnamon roll 170 Cal
Chewy, cookie like, cinnamon flavour subtle. Coconut seems to be there too. Not very sweet and artificial sweetener not very prominent. Quite filling.Tasty **** B+
3..Chocolate peanut butter 160 Cal
Chewy, like chocolate brownie, less aftertaste, also less taste B ***
Browner, better tasting than the sucralose brownie. Though I find I really don’t enjoy peanut butter flavours
4. Lemon Cream pie 170 cal
Lemony taste, as expected ! Chewy, no fruit bits, almond flecks? Aftertaste not too bad. Taste: B minus ***
5. Coconut cashew 170 cal
Tastes of real coconut. Has the same stippled beige appearance most of the bars have. Am not a great coconut fan. Sweetener is stevia and seems to make some difference. Has real cashew bits . Taste B ***
OLD LINE (SUCRALOSE)
1. Peanut butter and jelly 210cal
Chewy, peanut butter predominates, not much jelly. Artificial sweetner rather prominent . 210 cal! ** Taste C+
2. Chocolate brownie 170 Cal
This ones different . Dark brown. Like a real brownie, gives you the sensation of actually cheating on your diet, still chewy. Great color and aroma. Initial bite was pretty good, then the sweetener aftertaste kicked in. 2 nd bar: ditto, looks and smells great, opinion killed by strong after taste Taste: B minus ***
3. Mixed berry bliss 200 cal
Pretty good actually, was expecting a lot of aftertaste , but surprisingly it isn’t very prominent , contains actually visible blueberry and strawberry bits. Chewy. Taste : B+ ****
4. Apple Pie 170 cals
Quite good, chewy, same appearance, has almonds and ? real Apple pieces.Reasonably filling. Taste A ****
Somehow, not much artificial sweetener prominent
5. Vanilla Almond crunch 200 Cal
Chewy, not crunchy, has real almonds, not much of the vanilla flavor . Aftertaste minimal . Reasonably filling. Taste B ***
6. Peanut butter supreme 210 Cals!
Strong after and intra taste. Contains real peanuts and almond flakes. I don’t like their PB with sucralose. The stevia peanut butter was a lot better Taste C **
My Quest Taste Ranking:
#1. Cookie Dought
#2. Mixed berry bliss
#3. Banana MuffineC
#4. Apple pie
#5.
#6 coconut cashew
#7 Chocolate peanut butter
#8 lemon creme pie
#9 Chocolate brownie
#10 Peanut butter and jelly
#11Peanut butter supreme
Maybe I just dont like the peanut butter flavors…
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Brenda Coulter
If only they didn’t spike my blood sugar!,
They taste great. They’re a nice size, too. Just one bar fills me up, so I thought I’d discovered a great new low-carb breakfast to enjoy with a mug of coffee at my computer. Quest bars are wonderfully chewy, so it takes me ten minutes to finish one–and then I feel like I’ve had an actual meal and not one of those three-quick-bites-and-it’s-gone bars. BUT…
They spike my blood sugar something awful. I’m a Type 2 diabetic who keeps things under VERY good control with a low-carb diet. (Fasting BG is usually 85; last month’s A1c was 5.4–down from 9.4 when I was diagnosed 18 months ago.) I test my postprandial sugars at one hour because I’m almost always back down to pre-meal numbers at two hours. I limit my breakfasts to about 10g carbs, so I got pretty excited when I read the Quest bar label and then tasted my first bar. But an hour after eating, my BG had gone from 83 to 120. That’s what I would expect from a “splurge-y” breakfast of about 30g carbs. (For example, a small blueberry muffin with a cafe latte.)
Two days later, I repeated the test and went from 83 to 120. The following day, I started at 78 and shot up to 140! And just now, I went from 80 to 134 in one hour. That’s just unacceptable, so I guess it’s back to the eggy breakfasts for me–although I’ll keep the Quest bars in my purse for emergency rations. They really are tasty and filling, and my blood sugars are always much calmer in the afternoons.
I don’t know what’s in the bars that’s spiking my blood sugar. I wouldn’t expect it to be the oligosaccharides, but who knows?
Diabetics, beware. Before you buy a whole box, find yourself a couple of sample bars and TEST them.
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Annie
Wonderful! Great help while dieting.,
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