Snickers Almond Bar

July 1st, 2008 by Terry

So here is our third Snickers bar, the first being the original and the second the being the Snickers Xtreme. Here we have an almond variety from America, with the phrase “Snickers satisfies!” on the front, something which is usually true.

So looking at the ingredients, I would assume this is exactly the same as a regular Snickers, only with almonds replacing the peanuts. It still says “may contain peanuts” on the back, but that’s because these will no doubt be on the same assembly line, so it makes sense for Mars to cover themselves.

The wrapper is decent looking, an off-white theme, there are a few cartoon almonds on the front with the normal Snickers logo. 49.9g bar (1.76oz) makes it fairly dense, and one thing to remember is that American chocolate uses corn syrup. Yum.

I tried to take a good picture of it but that’s the best I could do, because of how thick and dark the caramel is. The almonds aren’t small by any means, it feels like there’s not as many in here as there are peanuts in the regular Snickers, but there’s still a fair amount.

The almonds and the caramel take up the majority of the taste, and for me it was usually caramel I was tasting unless I hit a particularly nutty section (which I did at the end of the bar). It’s a nice bar, it’s just that the almonds lack that real flavour punch that peanuts do and this results in the bar being a little bit lacking. Overall I enjoyed it, but I’d take the normal Snickers over it, even though I’m a bigger fan of almonds.

Each bar has 230 calories (100 from fat), 3g Protein, 32g Carbohydrates (26g of which sugars) and 11g Fat (4g of which sugars).

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3 Responses

  1. James

    I actually quite enjoyed the almonds in this bar..thankfully they are as you say implemented whole large pieces rather than finely chopped…the only thing I had slight reservations over was the nougat I think..I remember thinking it was just a little flavourless!

  2. Leigh

    Ha! I knew there was an almond Snickers.

  3. Terry

    James - I thought the entire thing was a little tasteless really.

    Leigh - Mystery solved!

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