IQBARBrain and Body Plant Protein Bars - Chocolate Mint Chip - 24-Count Low Carb - Gluten Free, High Fiber, Vegan Snacks - Low Sugar Meal Replacement

The media could not be loaded. (Chocolate sea salt flavor) It’s week 1 of keto, I’m down 16lbs, the progress is going amazing but I am STRUGGLING with the chocolate cravings. I browse Amazon hoping to find the unicorn of Keto. Something where taste and carbs don’t cancel each other out. I come across these, read some reviews decided to give them a try. For 2g of net carbs I was afraid they would just be another cardboard bar. I was pleasantly surprised to find that these bars actually have a pure, strong & rich chocolate taste. Super keto friendly, great texture, fresh, wasn’t melted at all and greatly effective at conquering that crave. Even some protein in there too! Now, the taste is not like a chocolate bar, but you have to realize this is about as good as you’re going to get without having loads of sugar and a high carb content. I have one trick to elevate these bar’s to a SOLID 10/10. Pop them in the microwave for about 10 seconds… Instant warm brownie taste/texture. Highly highly highly recommend to those of you on keto or just looking for a chocolate macro friendly bar. Very happy with my purchase and I will be ordering more. Lots more.

**Updated Review -9/29/2021-**I'm finally submitting an updated review. I was sent a sample variety box from the Co-Founder. I was hesitant about these bars at 1st but gradually tried each. Indeed they did make changes. I gotta say, great improvements. The flavors are much better than before and have more of a moist, yet not oily, oatmeal/soft-like texture. Normally I like my bars cold but these are very good at room temperature. I went ahead and tried a bit of the remaining ones. I'll go through each favor.1) Matcha Chai: I didn't even know they had this flavor. It's a new one to me. The matcha flavor is there and on point. It's a flavor I'm not used to but it might grow on me. I definitely like the ingredients this one has.2) Blueberry Lemon: Far better, strong blueberry and lemon flavor with blueberry bits.3) Blueberry: This had a deeper blueberry flavor, a better improvement. Good bits of blueberry.4) Banana Nut: Definitely better, the banana nut hits the taste buds quickly.5) Almond Butter Chip: I'm an almond and peanut butter lover and this one is quite good. May end up one of my favs. I did taste the almond butter quite well and the chocolate chips taste good.6) Peanut Butter Chip: A solid improvement. The peanut butter flavor hit me a bit later than the almond butter. Not really a bad note, the peanut butter flavor is there. Peanut butter chocolate tends to be my favorite flavor so this may end up on the top for me.7) Chocolate Seasalt: Although I'm normally not a fan of flavored bars with sea salt. this is far better than before. Good chocolate flavor and sea salt is there.On another note, I like their branding. The box shows what the bar actually looks like versus other brands showing some indulging treat of what it suppose to taste like. They even show videos of breaking apart the bars.And there you have it. Nice improvements IQ Bars. I can see these now as a good alternative choice for me.**Original**I've tried many different types of protein bars, starting from whey and switching to plant protein. I've seen recent reviews mentioning these bars taste better due to a new/better formula but these are very bland in flavor. I'm at the close point of giving this a 2 star.I give protein bars a good try and see how my tastebuds adjust to them. My tastebuds normally adjust well to new brands I try. The problem is these bars fail in the 1st impression in flavor. Even at a health standpoint, it shouldn't compromise flavor. I bought both variety packs, the chocolate and fruit lovers. Both so far are very bland and I just plan to choke these down so I don't waste the money but also to give these a full complete try. Maybe I got a bad batch but then that's also a problem. If IQBAR has really improved their bars, needs to be consistency across the board. Everyone is different, you may or may not like these. I wanted to try all the flavors but so far none are my favorite. I get health and nutrition, but not cutting corners.So here is my overall:Price: 3 - Avg/Fair - Price is around average imo compared to most plant protein bars but I've had better.Taste: 1.5 - Very bland - 1.5 - These bars may be the blandest bars I've had yet or at least in 2nd place which is a shame because also included in the box is a little sheet saying "we improved our bars".Texture: 3 - Semi Dry/soft - I'm fine with the texture. It has somewhat of a semi-moist granola texture.Ingredients: 4 - The main reason I decided to try, the ingredients look good overall. They look like a good alternative choice.Packaging: 5 - Packaging was great. Clean box design, no reckless handling, and bars in good shape.If you plan to try, I recommend one of the variety packs and hope you enjoy them. Unfortunately, these are leaning to a no-go for me. Maybe in the future that will change.

Overall good quality ingredients to curb appetite (no added sugars, decent source of protein (12gs), and prebiotic Fiber (6gs) to help digestion.) No artificial sweeteners which is a big plus (sweetened by Stevia plant extract and other natural flavors dependent on the flavor). I do not think the brain nutrients (Lion's Mane) in these bars is substantial enough to make an overall difference in cognitive function of the brain, but a nice added bonus that I have not seen in any other protein/nutrition bars on the market. Reasonable price - as a whole I will round up to a 4.0/5.All had relatively good texture. The more I liked the flavor of the bar, the more I was able to subsequently enjoy the texture. As, all the bars are soft (not chewy) and easy to digest.TasteAlmond Butter Chip - 4.5/5 (had more of an oatmeal chocolate chip flavor to m y buds, but my favorite of the variety pack.)Peanut Butter Chip - 4.0/5 (My second favorite in flavor behind the Almond Butter Chip, these 2 were the 2 definite standouts imo.)Banana Nut - 4.0/5Toasted Chocolate Chip - 3.5/5Chocolate Sea Salt - 3.0/5Wild Blueberry - 3.0/5Lemon Blueberry - 2.5/5 (least favorite, personal preference but did not care for the added lemon flavor in comparison to the Wild Blueberry, those 2 were definitely the least 2 enjoyable imo.)

These are some of my favorite protein bars because they keep me feeling full and energized! I can eat these on an empty stomach and not get sick, unlike whey protein bars. I love that they have hardly any sugar compared to others too!

I stretched my time to eat these bars to give a fair review as best a possible according to my opinion and experience. firstly I intentionally bought the 7 sampler to see what kind of taste would be generated from each. Bearing in mind that healthy doesn't always mean or give ...... well be tasty, and being sugarless......well we know how that goes.......but for people on serious low carb diet, i think this is not so awful tasting, with the exception of the blueberry which had the most play dough, plasticine kinda taste, I really could not digest this whole thing down it felt like a little torture trying too, and no way I was going to stress myself out for something that wasn't a life saver, so i had to dump it.......the others were okay because you got the flavours masking the sort of plasticine taste, i got the peanut butter taste, the almond taste, coconut, chocolate etc, they were all okay. However, this is not for me, I am not on any serious carb diet and secondly this is too expensive for me to buy where i am......but hey if it works for you .... knock yourself out...

Helps you get through those little moments, where you need a little energy😉

IQ bars are a good sourse of protien. They taste great.

I appreciate that these are NOT too sweet. Just right! Like having them in the morning instead of early breakfast. I tried macha and lemon - both are very nice. The lemon one is nice and refreshing. I love it.

The flavour is incredible!

These bars taste great, however, each time I would have one bar in one sitting I would end up being constipated. For that reason, I will not repurchase.