{"id":163,"date":"2007-05-23T14:38:16","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T13:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2007-05-23T14:38:16","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T13:38:16","slug":"taste-test-jigsaw-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/taste-test-jigsaw-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"Taste Test: Jigsaw Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember that I was sent a couple of boxes of these a while ago, to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=164\">share and taste<\/a> &#8230; here&#8217;s what we made of them.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-content\/jigsawbars.jpg' alt='jigsawbars.jpg' hspace=\"10px\" vspace=\"10px\" align=\"right\" \/><br \/>\nPeople who tasted these for me included coeliacs and non-coeliacs; the coeliacs came from my house, from my village (yes, my village of under 300 people has 4 coeliacs that I know of, and only one of them related to me), from the next county south, from Ireland and from Australia.  Quite a collection!<\/p>\n<p>The bars we were tasting came from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigsawbars.com\">Jigsaw<\/a>, and come in two flavours: coconut and almond, and chocolate, and we had a mixed bag of views on these &#8211; as I suppose you&#8217;d expect.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We liked the fact that the bars are soft and chewy, rather than crunchy (very often &#8216;health&#8217; bars require you to have very strong teeth). <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>We also liked the fact that they weren&#8217;t too sweet.  All too often, gluten free food is overloaded with sugar in an attempt to disguise the texture.  <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>And several people said that they liked the taste, particularly of the coconut and almond bar.  The chocolate bar has a dark chocolate taste, being quite high in cocoa flavour, and this might put some people off &#8211; others, of course, prefer dark chocolate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some people didn&#8217;t like the texture of the bars, saying that they were &#8216;powdery&#8217; or &#8216;dry&#8217; in consistency.  <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>One person said that the chocolate one smells and tastes like a health bar (that wasn&#8217;t a compliment, by the way).<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>And it should be pointed out that though the bars are loaded with vitamins, they are not vegetarian (I guess that&#8217;s where the Omega 3 comes from &#8211; fish oil is said to be good for the brain).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall, people preferred the coconut and almond one, though a couple of people really enjoyed the chocolate one.<\/p>\n<p>And there were mixed feelings on whether people would choose to buy these &#8230; some said that they wouldn&#8217;t see them as a treat, but would eat them as a way of filling up; others thought they might buy them from a cafe with a coffee.<\/p>\n<p>My son &#8211; not a coeliac &#8211; has been sneaking them into his school bag for break-time.  So there&#8217;s a strong vote in their favour from him!  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Our Recommendation:<\/strong> a mixed response &#8211; why not try them to see what you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember that I was sent a couple of boxes of these a while ago, to share and taste &#8230; here&#8217;s what we made of them. 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