Cadbury Boost

Whilst looking round my local corner shop, I started to look at the chocolate. Not really eating a great deal of chocolate, I normally tend to look and think do I want something or shall I do without, which is what I was going to do today until a huge red logo on a particular chocolate bar said 29p. I looked to investigate what it was and it was a Cadbury Boost. Being one of my favourites when I do indulge I could miss that 29p opportunity and picked one up, looking forward to getting it home, undressing it and having a couple of damn fine moments with it. Cadbury's Boost have been around for years, I think they used to do them in other flavours too and they ...

I picked one of these up when I went to my village shop yesterday as I hadn't had one for years. THE PACKAGING The boost comes in a blue wrapper with the title across the middle in white bubble writing and the words 'charged with glucose' in red and yellow lettering underneath. On the back of the wrapper are the ingredients and the nutritional values and also contact details for the maker Cadbury's. TASTE The inside of the bar has a very smooth chocolate with pieces of biscuit inside and is covered in a soft caramel layer and then the whole bar has been covered with milk chocolate. There is a great taste to the bar ...

The Cadbury Boost bar was introduced in 2003, so it has been on the market for a while, although it does not appear to have had a lot of product promotion work done on it recently, so most people will not be aware that it is not simply 'another chocolate bar'. This chocolate bar is designed to increase mental alertness and energy. This market is dominated mostly by the energy drinks market but Boost contains guarana, a South America plant extract that is used to stimulate the mind and physical motor response. This is supposed to make you feel energised and more alert. One bar contains 54mg of caffeine. This is similar to the amount found in a ...