#Take 5 candy bar ingredients how to
#Take 5 candy bar ingredients update

Here are some frequently asked questions emailed to me you might want to read first.The Take 5 is a candy bar released by The Hershey Company in December 2004.

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Revisit: Take 5, Sunkist Fruit Gems & Snickers Almond.

Result: For now they’re off my list but still get a passing rating of 5 out of 10. Hershey’s still has an opportunity to reverse this and make it real chocolate again.Ĭhange: milk chocolate coating is replaced with a fake chocolate coating (which contains chocolate but also other vegetable oils). turns out that they’re just not designed to be good any longer. This one was passably good, but I’ve had others in the past few months (I picked them out of a mix of snack size in a bowl at the office a couple of times) and I didn’t realize why they were kind of empty tasting for what I remembered. The coating didn’t have much flavor but did add a creamy texture. Mine were exceptionally fresh, the pretzel was good and crunchy, a nice salty complement to the sweet coating. Little rather rectangular lumps with a pleasant sweet & peanutty scent. The bars actually still look quite fetching. The actual chocolate as an ingredient comes far down on the list as the number 6 item, after vegetable oils and high fructose corn sweetener and before nonfat milk (you can imagine there’s not that much milk in there). That “made with chocolate” part means that the coating may contain chocolate, but it has other additives such as vegetable oils that mean that it’s not pure chocolate. The package now says: made with chocolate & pretzels & caramel & peanuts & peanut butter.

#Take 5 candy bar ingredients update

UPDATE : Sometime when I wasn’t looking ( I photographed it last summer again) the Hershey’s Take 5 left the list of chocolate candy bars and joined the growing list of Hershey’s Real Mockolate. See also: The Message Whore’s review (both milk chocolate & white) Rating - 9 out of 10 (just make a dark version or a pecan one!) A pecan/maple version, a pecan/dark chocolate turtle one, maybe white chocolate and walnuts or macadamias (not really for me, but a solid combo - I know that a white version of this same bar exists but I haven’t seen it yet) then another version with mint cookies and almonds. It’s especially good with a morning cup of coffee, as I’m having the second piece right now.Īs far as I’m concerned this bar could have lots of versions. For now I’ll keep buying it when I need a little boost during the day.

#Take 5 candy bar ingredients how to

I really wish they could figure out how to make this without hydrogenated oils, though it’s pretty far down on the list of ingredients and doesn’t show up on the nutrition part.

The packaging is good, there are two little pieces in a tray and sealed in a the plastic packaging so they stay intact and are easy to slide out. If it only came in dark chocolate I might be in heaven. If anything, the milk chocolate is a little sweet, but the salt on the pretzels and the slight saltiness of the peanut butter (which tastes like the center of a Reese’s. (Maybe I got that order wrong, it’s hard to tell.) The proportions are solid and the pretzel has got a great salty kick. It’s got a pretzel center covered with peanut butter then a layer of caramel, a few chopped peanuts and then it’s all enrobed in milk chocolate. Hershey’s is dang close with the Take 5 bar. I quickly bargained with the other people in our party for theirs. On a visit to the Chocolate Homeworld, er, sorry, Chocolate World in Hershey on New Year’s Day, this was the sample they gave us at the end of the ride.

In my world it’d be a super turtle with a pretzel base, chewy caramel then pecans all covered in semi-sweet chocolate. It’d be a great mix of simple carbs, fat and protein so as not to overwhelm the bloodstream with too much sugar. If I were to create the perfect candy bar, a great snack bar that would give me energy and taste good, it would contain the following: chocolate, pretzels, caramel and nuts.