LITTLE ROCK — WHAT: Nutri-Grain Fruit Crunch Bars
STATS: Each bar contains 180 to 190 calories and 7 fat, 29 carbohydrate, 3 fiber and 3 protein grams. Visit kelloggs.com.
THE SKINNY: Usually we’re not fond of bars. Well, the cereal/granola/snack kind, anyway. (As for the other kind of bars - places to drink - we are fond of those.)
But these new Nutri-Grain Fruit Crunch Bars (in two flavors that we’ve sampled: Strawberry Parfait and Apple Cobbler), thin, crisp, bars made with granola and “real fruit” (more on that in a minute) and a sweet yogurt layer that come two per pack, arebetter than average.
As for the “real fruit,” it might not be the kind you expected. Those chewy bits inside the strawberry variety? Dried cranberries.
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Food, Pages 34 on 02/20/2013