Tasting Calorie Mate and Soyjoy. Power Bars from Japan

CalorieMate is a Japanese vitality bar, of the biscuit selection, that has been round since 1983.  It’s a well-known meals complement/alternative for onerous working salarymen who want vitality to drag these lengthy hours at work.  Soyjoy is a way more latest product created from soybean flour and is one other vitality bar kind of meals complement.  Each of some of these bars present many important vitamins along with energy.  You may just about discover CalorieMate in any comfort retailer as it’s a fashionable emergency snack / meals.  Soyjoy can also be pretty straightforward to search out, however not fairly as ubiquitous as CalorieMate.  Each merchandise are available many alternative flavours, and between the 2 you might have every thing from cheese, chocolate, to all types of fruit flavours.

CalorieMate and Soyjoy.

I attempted the chocolate flavour of CalorieMate.  It jogged my memory of a shortbread cookie greater than anything.  The biscuit had a dry, barely powdery texture that was simply bitten by way of.  There was a lightweight chocolate style and was fairly good for a meals complement.  I’ve a few emergency biscuit bars and I am fairly positive this tastes higher as it’s a widespread snack/vitality meals in Japan.  Individuals would not purchase this if it tasted unhealthy.  I am unsure about among the different flavours, however I am fairly positive I might be okay with a most of them.  These bars are manufactured by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co./CalorieMate.      

Again of the packages.  The Soyjoy bar is propped up with a chunk of Kendal Mint Cake.

Soyjoy is a relative newcomer to the market, with its first launch in 2006.  It’s produced from a dough that’s derived from soybeans slightly than flour and a bar is meant to have the vitamin of 35 soybeans that does not embody their skins (I am unsure what significance this has).  Different substances like fruit and nuts are kneaded into this dough and baked.  The bars are purported to be straightforward on the physique and are fairly tasty.  SoyJoy has the next flavours: strawberry, raisin, apple, candy potato, fruit and cheese.  These bars are additionally manufactured by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co./Soyjoy.

I discover it attention-grabbing that these bars did not get launched earlier as kinako, roasted soybean flour, is a generally used product in Japanese delicacies.  Kinako has appeared in Japanese cookbooks greater than 500 years in the past, within the Muromachi interval.

Keither Sutherland starred in some CalorieMate commercials when 24 was fashionable.

I attempted the SoyJoy blueberry flavour for the primary time this yr, however had tried CalorieMate years earlier than.  Once I opened it, there was a powerful scent of blueberries that hinted a extra of a dessert than an vitality meals.  The foil packaging for the bar is fairly sturdy to maintain it recent because it additionally has a yr lengthy shelf-life.  You possibly can see dried blueberries baked into the bar and it regarded fairly inviting to strive.  The bar has a tender, but agency chew to it that type of jogged my memory of some tender breakfast bars or a tender cookie kind texture.  The fruit flavour was prevalent with a background style that did not remind me of roasted soybeans because it was type of like a traditional wheat-based bar.  It was fairly good too and there wasn’t a chemical aftertaste to the bar, one thing I additionally discover with the CalorieMate too.  A 30 gram Soyjoy bar supplies 134 energy, so that you would wish 3 bars to supply the identical vitality {that a} 4 bar field of CalorieMate would offer.

Between each varieties of bars, you’d have a pleasant little emergency meals stash for those who wanted it.  There’s all kinds of flavours and textures too.  Once I journey in Japan, I’ll choose up one in all these to throw in my pack for a snack emergency when no comfort shops are round.

CalorieMate Chocolate and Soyjoy Blueberry unwrapped.

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