So, I have no idea what this bar is or who this company is. No sugar added, 1.5g “net carbs” per portion, sounds American to me, but their website suggests they’re a Belgian company, which I guess makes sense.

Strangely enough, I think this is the first ever Belgian chocolate bar I’ve had that’s made and sold actually in Belgium, as I usually see it as a marketing tool used by British and American manufacturers. Their website is nice, they seem to have a number of products that I may or may not be interested in, I guess it depends on how this goes.

The bar was already broken in half when I opened it. Now one thing I’m wary of is that they market this as a low carb bar, which usually means they skimp on something. This something I would assume would be sugar, less sugar means less sweetness, less sweetness means less flavour in milk chocolate, and already I’m almost dreading this.

For good reason too, this is so damn plain and tasteless. It reminds me of the Meybona bar I had before, only with slightly more flavour, less sweetness (I’m using that word a lot now) and a somewhat yucky aftertaste. I looked at the ingredients to see what was up: “sweetener maltitol” is the first ingredient there, which is a sugar alcohol with 90% of the sweetness of sucrose. According to Wikipedia, “maltitol is [also] well known to cause gastric distress”, oh…bloody fantastic.

Well after that somewhat surprising and disappointing realisation, I decided against eating the entire bar, as to be honest, I didn’t even like it. I guess if you’re on a low carb diet you might be interested in these, but even that’s a push, if you’re not on a diet, you have no reason to buy this.

Each portion (4 pieces) has 68 calories, 1g Protein, 6.4g Carbohydrates (1.4g of which sugars) and 5g Fat (3.2g of which saturates).

P.S. I finished the bar off later and had no gastric distress, what a relief.