Munch Merrily on a Mini Mars (Mars Mini Rolls)

Member Name: keeperofthematri

Product:	Mars Mini Rolls
Date:	06/07/09 (69 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Tasty chocolatey treat

Disadvantages: High sugar content

Everytime I visit my local shop I look out of things that I can review on dooyoo. Here's another one I found.


Packaging:

The mini rolls are invidually wrapped in a predominantly black wrapper which keeps them isolated from the air once the wrapper covering the main tray has been opened. The mini rolls are laid in the tray which is wrapped with a plastic covering. Again this is predominantly black, with the familiar Mars logo in red with vanilla coloured edging. The back of the pack lists the Customer Care details, the ingredients & the nutritional information as well as some "publicity" asking "Have you tried our Mars Muffins?"


Nutritional Information per mini roll {per 100g in brackets}

Energy kJ: 545 kJ {1816 kJ}
Calories: 130 kcal {433 kcal}
Protein: 1.5g {5.1g}
Carbohydrate: 18.4g {61.4g}
of which sugars: 14.1g {47.0g}
Fat: 5.6g {18.5g}
of which saturates: 3.0g {10.0g}
Fibre: 0.4g {1.2g}
Sodium: < 0.1g {0.1g}
- equivalent as salt: 0.1g {0.4g}

Dietary & Allery Information

Contains milk, egg, soya and gluten. No hydrogenated vegetable oil.



The mini roll:
The bar is completely covered in Mars chocolate. There's no particular smell that hits you once you've removed the wrapper. The outer chocolate shell is fairly thin. On biting into it you notice the caramel Mars filling surrounded by chocolate sponge.


Taste:
The overriding taste was of the caramel Mars filling, despite the fact that there doesn't appear to be lots of it inside the mini roll itself. The chocolate sponge is not too strongly flavoured but these two elements rather overpower the thin outer shell of chocolate. If you like Mars Bars then you'll like these as well.

Price:
I paid the princely sum of 99p for these in my local corner shop, which is not that great when I got 10 Cadbury's Mini Rolls for the same price. However, tastewise I much prefer these but I certainly wouldn't be prepared to pay more than £1 for 6 of them.


Opinion:
A very handy size to pop into a lunchbox or if you need a chocolate hit. Once again, the sugar & fat content is quite high. One mini roll will provide an adult with 14.1% of their Recommended Daily Amount of sugar and 5.6% of their RDA for fat so these are perhaps best avoided by dieters or those watching their weight. The RDA for sugar is slightly higher (0.3%) here than you'd get with a Cadburys Mini Roll but the fat content is 3.3% lower so these are better for you in terms of fat content. In terms of calories this Mars Mini Roll with provide you with 6.5% of your Recommended Dail Amount as opposed to the Cadbury's Mini Roll which comes in at 6% RDA.

Overall though, these have a bit more taste to them than the Cadbury's Mini Rolls do.

Summary: More taste than a Cadbury's mini roll