Fulfil Vitamin and Protein Bar (15 x 40 g Bars) — Chocolate Salted Caramel Flavour — 15 g High Protein, 9 Vitamins, Low Sugar

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Irish brand ‘Fulfil’ have set out to change this, offering a protein bar with added vitamins that’s high in fibre and low in calories. Each bar has 9 added vitamins, including Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Thiamine and Folic Acid. Fulfil bars come in the following flavours (with new ones released periodically), each of which you’ll find my thoughts on below:

Macros are what we’ve come to expect from Fulfil – 203 kcal, 13g fat, 19g carbs, 2.7g sugar and 20g protein. The carb count is slightly higher than other bars, but they have used real orange peel to add flavour so can you really complain? Lemon Zinger 10/10.

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Lemon is not a common flavour among protein bars – Oh Yeah!’s lemon drizzle cake ONE bar is the only one that springs to mind. I’ll admit I went into this a little sceptical, but I came out pleasantly surprised.

Fulfil have tried to achieve an irresistible blend of sweet and salty but, in reality, the dark chocolate isn’t sweet enough to balance the saltiness of the base. My hopes were dashed, but I wasn’t mad about it. Unlike some of Fulfil’s later bars, the coconut chocolate flavour is simply a nougat-like centre coated in milk chocolate – no fancy crispies or caramel layer.The macros are nothing to complain about – 195 kcal, 7.3g fat, 11.1g carbs, 21.2g protein – and the protein comes from whey, but there are much better flavours out there. Chocolate Orange 9/10. It’s one of the higher calorie bars at 217kcal, but for this you get 9.3g fat, 15g carbs, just 1.5g sugar, and 20g protein. As in the Chocolate Peanut Butter flavour, collagen hydrolysate features on the ingredients list, but as with all Fulfil’s bars you are getting 30% of your vitamin RDA.

Flavour-wise, each individual element is great. The caramel is rich and deep and the dark chocolate hits the spot with its blend of sweet bitterness. For 213 kcal you get 7.2g fat, 2.3g sugar and 20g protein. The carb count is slightly higher than usual at 20g, but with the inclusion of lemon peel you can’t really complain! Triple Choc Deluxe 6/10.This is one of my favourite protein bars out there – it makes Grenade’s ‘Caramel Chaos’ look like a chunk of cardboard in comparison. I can’t recommend highly enough. The macros are solid – 210 kcal, 9.7g fat, 15g carbs, 1.9g sugar, 20g protein – and, even though the added ‘palm fat’ might be an issue for some, you are getting 100% of your vitamin RDA. Once again Fulfil have smashed it with this one.

This bar weighs in at 60g, 5g more than Fulfil’s standard 55g, explained by the more dense and chewy core. The macros are still stellar with 207 kcal, 8.4g fat, 11.7g carbs, 2.1g sugar, and 20.6g protein. There’s also a hefty 11.2g fibre in there and the protein comes from milk. The best part is definitely the caramel layer. It’s rich and deep, there’s lots of it and, crucially, it blends so well with the white chocolate. As expected, the texture is wonderful. Unlike the White Chocolate Cookie Dough flavour, this bar has a soft centre and a good chew. The centre is soft and chewier than expected, probably because there’s real coconut in it. The coconut flavour is perfect – it’s not artificial or overpowering. It’s sweet and creamy, and blends well with the hint of chocolate from the coating. As usual, the macros are really good – 6.9g fat, 10.3g carbs, 2.5g sugar and 19.7g protein – and it’s one of the lower calorie bars at 189 kcal.Cookie dough is slightly salty, it’s soft and chewy and it has chocolate chunks in it. Surely the innovators at Fulfil have experienced the pure joy that is eating cookie dough straight from the mixing bowl. I suspect ‘cookie dough’ has been used as a buzz word to make this bar sound more exciting. In an ideal world, protein bars would taste good and do good. That being said, a lot of great-tasing protein bars are laden with sugar, and mysterious ingredients, offering little else than 20g of protein. Overall I’d describe this as ‘not bad’– perhaps not the best of compliments but certainly not the worst. It’s essentially average, and average isn’t always a bad thing. Peanut & Caramel The caramel doesn’t even come to the bar’s rescue, being too rich to counter the depth of the dark chocolate.