Review: Zone Perfect Perfectly Simple Peppermint Bark Bar

I find it exponentially amusing that even nutrition bar manufacturers get into the seasonal spirit and release limited edition products that are based on the season.  Zone Perfect has already done it once with a pumpkin-flavored bar that I reviewed previously, but now they are going with a peppermint-flavored bar that is focused on the...well, let's just say December traditions (call that my Starbucks red cup play).  Anyway, I picked up this seasonally influenced and limited edition Zone Perfect Perfectly Simple Peppermint Bark Bar at Kroger for $1.00.  It checks in at 1.41 ounces and has a modest 180 calories with ten grams of protein.  It's also gluten free.

Review: Zone Perfect Perfectly Simple Pumpkin Chai Bar

As I've lamented on the blog, it's that time of year for pumpkin-flavored products and why shouldn't Zone Perfect add to their review collection with a pumpkin-flavored product too?  It's only fitting since everyone else is doing it.  So, I saw this limited edition Zone Perfect Perfectly Simple Pumpkin Chai Bar on sale at my local Kroger for $1.00 and snatched it up to once again be over pumpkined.  This bar comes in at 1.41 ounces and has 180 calories with ten grams of protein.  It's also gluten free, so there's that going for it too (besides its seasonality).

Review: Zone Perfect Perfectly Simple Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Bar

I often go through the aisles of stores and just bypass products that I think I must have reviewed before.  I know that I've mentioned that previously, but when you cross over one thousand reviews like I have recently, it's tough to remember everything that I have or have not reviewed.  Today's review product is one of those instances as every time I saw this  Zone Perfect Perfectly Simple Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Bar on the shelf, I was convinced that I had reviewed it because it was such a seemingly basic product that I figured I would have hit on at some point.  One day, curiosity got the best of me and I check the Zone Perfect review archive and low and behold, I found out that I had not reviewed it, so here we are.  I (finally) grabbed this bar off the shelves at Kroger for $1.00 and each bar is 1.58 ounces with 190 calories and ten grams of protein.

Review: Zone Perfect Perfectly Simple Cranberry Almond Bar

I consider myself perfect and also simple, so these bars should be right up my alley, right?  Okay, I'm neither perfect and I'm not all that simple, but that was the best introductory line that I could come up with, which proves that I am far from perfect and actually could be considered borderline awful.  Anyway, Zone Perfect has read some of my prior reviews and sent me some free samples of their bars to try out and it's those free samples that lead me to try out this Zone Perfect Perfectly Simple Cranberry Almond Bar.  This bar is 1.58 ounces and has 170 calories with ten grams of protein.  It's Perfectly Simple because it is made up of a limited amount of ingredients, which in this case, is ten ten ingredients.

Review: Zone Perfect Perfectly Simple Toasted Coconut Nutrition Bar

One of the funny things about writing reviews for this blog is that often after I post a review, I hear from the company that was the source of the review with them offering to send me free products, information, etc.  Whether they are just being nice or attempting to buy me off is open to interpretation, but that's a discussion for another day.  It's after a previous review of Zone Perfect's Perfectly Simple products that Zone Perfect contacted me and offered to send me a couple of free samples in that product line to try out, so that leads me to this review of the Zone Perfect Perfectly Simple Toasted Coconut Nutrition Bar.  This one comes in at 1.58 ounces and has 200 calories with ten grams of protein.  It has only eight ingredients, thus the focus on simplicity in the name of the product line.

Review: Zone Perfect Perfectly Simple Peanut Crunch Bar

So I've always considered Zone Perfect to be kind of like CLIF in that they have countless variations of their products and I've reviewed many of them.  They semi-recently introduced a new variation of bars called "Perfectly Simple" bars that have a premise of being produced with a very limited number of ingredients.  Always curious and also always looking for free stuff,  I picked up this Zone Perfect Perfectly Simple Peanut Crunch Bar for free via a promotion on the Zone Perfect website.  It's 1.58 ounces, 190 calories and has ten grams of protein.  Since it is Perfectly Simple, it consists of only six ingredients and those ingredients include peanut butter, cane syrup, soy protein isolate, date paste, rolled oats and coconut.  Outside of soy protein isolate, all of those ingredients sound pretty benign and boring to me, but boring does not always mean bad.