I often pick up low fat snacks to try when out shopping, with the 'Alpen Strawberry and yogurt' bars being my latest find.

Mine were purchased from a my local corner shop for just 99p for a box of eight - bargain! Anything under a pound is worth a try as you won't feel too bad if you end up disliking them.

The description on the box says ' Mixed cereal bar with apple and strawberry, dipped and drizzled with a yogurt flavour coating.'
This confused me a little as it implied that the coating was not yogurt - just yogurt flavoured.
I then checked the ingredients and noticed a few bad things on the list, along with lots of sugars - I started to think that maybe this isn't as healthy as the picture on the box (of some fresh strawberries and oats) makes out.
Looking at the nutritional information, I can see that eating one bar won't give me a lot of calories, but will give me lots of sugars - so these are not 100% healthy or natural.

On to the important bit - the taste.

On first bite I expected a nice crunch but instead found myself with a mouth of slighty soft oats. The oats are lovely but unfortunaltley the rest wasn't too nice.
The dried strawberries just don't come close to the taste of fresh ones - and the apple was nowhere to be seen!
The coating didn't really taste of yogurt and was a bit too sweet for my liking.

Overall, I wasn't very impressed with this product and will not be buying it again.
It wasn't horrible, just not very nice - just blah!
As with a lot of other cereal bars, they are promoted as being health foods but actually contain a lot of sugar.

In future I think I will try a different type of snack bar.