{"id":294,"date":"2008-06-06T23:53:16","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T23:53:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-06-06T23:53:16","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T23:53:16","slug":"gluten-free-product-review-enjoy-life-snack-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/gluten-free-diet-product-review\/gluten-free-product-review-enjoy-life-snack-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Gluten-Free Product Review: Enjoy Life Snack Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Enjoy Life snack bars are neatly packaged, allergen-free, and convenient.<\/p>\n

That’s the good news.<\/p>\n

The trouble with them though, is that they seem to have been designed by food scientists, not cooks or bakers.<\/p>\n

While the photo on the package looks<\/em> appetizing, the bars themselves do not look like much of anything. And that is a good indication of the taste and texture as well.<\/p>\n

Basically, this is highly processed food, its just a matter of using a different feed-stock from the usual allergens like wheat<\/a> and milk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They lack much of a taste, and while they don’t actually taste bad, they are a long way from tasting good.<\/p>\n

What they lack in taste, they also lack in texture. They have a sort of uniform blandness to their texture. There is an attempt to alleviate this by adding something granular and slightly crunchy, but it doesn’t work. Never have I noticed a texture in food that I could say was out of place, until now. The texture baffles me, actually.<\/p>\n

In short, I would summarize these bars as edible yes, but not worth eating. They lack taste and texture, leave me feeling unsatisfied, and smack of low-quality, over-processed ingredients.<\/p>\n

You could eat them if you have to, but really, there are other snack possibilities out there, so why bother with these?<\/p>\n

I’m sure the people who created these things don’t eat them, except when they are at work, and then only because they are paid to.<\/p>\n

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Enjoy Life Snack Bar Rating<\/h2>\n

Rating scale is from -3 (awful) through 0 (neutral) to +3 Excellent<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Taste:<\/td>\n0<\/td>\nNot good, not bad either. One is enough.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Texture:<\/td>\n-2<\/td>\nOver-processed. A mixture of bland and crunchy that is artificial.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Freshness<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nI don’t think the ingredients are of high enough quality to tell.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Packaging<\/td>\n+2<\/td>\nConvenient individually wrapped bars. Packages are hard to open without scissors.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Environmental<\/td>\n-2<\/td>\nOver-packaged.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Quality<\/td>\n-2<\/td>\nSeems like inferior ingredients to me.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Value<\/td>\n-2<\/td>\nA product this bland and unsatisfying (and full of sugar) isn’t worth much<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well packaged and every effort to make these for people with allergies, but are they worth eating?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[196,68,36,197],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}