It’s National Candy Month, but it’s also summer. So what’s a candy lover to do when the weather turns against our sweet, sweet candy and melts it into sticky puddles?
There are a few summer-safe candies beyond the standard hard candy lollipop. Coconut bars are a great option because they provide a good bit of texture and flavor and a light tropical flavor that’s a change of pace from nuts.
The Blue Ribbon Neapolitan Coconut Bar is pretty simple. It’s a soft and moist coconut plank that comes in three flavors: strawberry, vanilla and chocolate. (Just like the ice cream.)
The bar is pretty big at 2.5 ounces and packs 320 calories, and being coconut that means that it has 75% of your daily allotment of saturated fat. That’s a lot of fat for a bar that doesn’t even have any dairy in it ... 150 calories from fat - and possibly vegan depending on how you feel about invert sugar.
The bar is pretty and easy to eat. The strips are neatly divided and the whole bar smells simply like sweet coconut.
The strawberry layer is lightly floral and strangely sweeter than the others. The pink coloring gives it a little weird metallic note, but I could ignore that as I rarely ate a bite of it without some of the adjacent vanilla.
The vanilla layer is just plain old coconut. It’s a little saltier than the center of a Mounds bar, not quite as moist, but not dry either.
The chocolate layer is kind of toasty with only a hint of cocoa flavor, kind of like chocolate graham crackers aren’t really very chocolatey. The salt here was really noticeable as well. It kept it from being too sweet, but I did have to note that there are 210 mg of sodium in the bar, more than I care for in a serving of my dessert or snack.
They travel very well, and even though it’s uncoated, it’s remarkably un-sticky and easy to eat. The instant boost of calories makes it a good meal replacement (though certainly not balanced). There are not fillers in there either (some bars have corn flakes in there). Not recommended for folks who don’t like coconut, of course.
Related Candies
- Limited Edition M&Ms Coconut
- Sunspire Coconut Bars
- Atkinson’s Coconut Long Boys
- Regional Flavors: Key Lime, Pina Colada & Huckleberries
- K Chocolatier
Name: |
Neapolitan Coconut Bar |
RATING:
- SUPERB
- YUMMY
- TASTY
- WORTH IT
- TEMPTING
- PLEASANT
- BENIGN
- UNAPPEALING
- APPALLING
- INEDIBLE
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Brand: |
Espeez |
Place Purchased: |
sample from Sweets & Snacks Expo |
Price: |
$.89 retail |
Size: |
2.5 ounces |
Calories per ounce: |
128 |
Categories: |
Candy, Coconut, 7-Worth It, United States |
I didn’t know they still made these!
They also have the one I had, Fresiinger’s Candy Farm, made in Iowa..same thing..and the original,since 1894!
WHERE CAN I PURCHASE THESE WONDERFUL COCNUT BARS
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