Tracker bars - still delicious after 20 odd years (Tracker Bars)

Member Name: millwallcris1885

Product:	Tracker Bars
Date:	27/10/09 (26 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: choc-full of yummyness

Disadvantages: None

The Product

Tracker are a brand of cereal bars ideal for snacks, treats and lunchboxes. They are available in both Choc Chip and Raisin varieties. They cost approximately £1.50 for a pack of 8 bars.

Nutritional info

Tracker bars are now made using wholegrain oats, so are now better for you!

Each 26g bar contains:

Energy - 125 calories
Sugars - 7.9g
Fat - 6.1g
Saturated Fat - 2.9g
Salt - 0.1g


Ingredients

Glucose syrup,, whole grains, vegetable fat, peanuts, sweetened condensed skimmed milk, maize, sugar, rice flour, cocoa mass, humectant, hydrogenated vegetable fat, salt demineralised whey powder, emulsifier, barley malt extract, flavouring.

Includes traces of hazelnut.




My Verdict

Tracker bars are another one of those foods that has left its indelible stamp on my childhood memories. I remember being allowed one of these bars as a treat after my swimming lesson when I was about 8. Now as a fully fledged grown up they are one of the first things I reach for when preparing my lunchbox for work.

One problem with persevering with foods from your childhood is that they inevitably seem smaller in your adult hands than they used to. Tracker bars are decidedly on the titchy side and only last me about 4 mouthfuls. Despite this they do fill the mid-morning slump between breakfast and lunch quite nicely.

The strapline on the packet states that Tracker are the "only bar with the three layered crunch, goo and chew". To be fair to them, this is something you can actually notice rather than (or perhaps as well as) just being a silly slogan. If you bite slowly through the bar you can definitely experience the three different textures (what's that you say? Too much free time at work?)

Personally I prefer the Choc Chip variety although the Raisin ones are very good also. Both are worth trying if you haven't done so already.

For me, the thing that separates Tracker bars from the endless list of other cereal bars, is the taste. I find that the more health orientated varieties get boring very quickly. Sticking oats, cardboard and a bit of dried apricot together with a tasteless paste seems to be the order of the day for these bar makers (yes, I'm looking at you Holland & Barrett). Not so the tracker bar, which is literally bursting with yummy, chewy, gooey, crispy deliciousness.

Summary: Ideal for lunchboxes