In this tier list, I will be ranking the flavors of MOSH’s best-selling, high-protein bars Trial Pack. I picked these up from their TikTok shop, which should normally include the following six flavors: Blueberry Almond Crunch, Peanut Butter Crunch, Cookie Dough Crunch, Chocolate Brownie Crunch, Peanut Butter Chocolate Crunch, and Lemon White Chocolate Crunch.
HOWEVER! I was instead sent these flavors: Cookie Dough Crunch, Peanut Butter Chocolate Crunch, Lemon White Chocolate Crunch, and two Raspberry White Chocolate Crunch bars. I reached out to the company, and they refused to acknowledge the issue. Digging further, MOSH has had previous controversies about its protein bar claims.
It was missing the Chocolate Brownie Crunch, replaced by two Raspberry White Chocolate Crunch bars, for a total of five different bars.
Overall Review & Verdict
Each bar ends with “crunch,” so I surely expect them to be just that! I’m also hoping they are tasty as they claim, considering they gloat about this being featured on Shark Tank.
Opening them up, I immediately notice their appearances are on the thinner side, though not too thin to really fret about. While most have a lightly chewy, semi-dense bite, again, they vary a bit between each flavor, so each experience is somewhat unique. They have the appearance of a slightly longer Quest bar (notably, less chewy and less thick)–basically, a generic protein bar that is neither cheap nor premium looking. Lastly, each one has varying levels of different bits inside, with each containing small, thin, white crispie bits. Notably, there is no drizzle or shell to speak of.
In terms of their flavors and sweetness, for the most part, the flavors were authetic but “dulled” or masked by some innate protein-like taste. It’s hard to explain, but each flavor, while represented accurately, tasted like it wasn’t fully represented, as if they added a little too much water to the ingredients. Nonetheless, they’re all between mild to moderately sweet, not as sweet as some other bars, yet sweet enough to be a tasty protein bar treat.
If I had to give an opinion, I’d say these are middle-of-the-road protein bars. Good for beginners who want to give protein bars a try before digging into better brands.
Flavor Ranking
1. Raspberry White Chocolate Crunch
It smells like a creamy and sweet raspberry, and the flavor is just that. Biting in, I get that flavor alongside a protein-ish, almost oat bar flavor too. It has a few tiny crunchy fruit pieces and white chocolate pieces, which aid in both the creaminess, fruit flavor, and contrast to the soft, chewy overall filling. Out of the several bars here, this falls on the chewier, softer side.
For some reason, though, it tastes dull, as if the protein filling is stopping the true, more pronounced raspberry from coming out. As it is now, it’s reasonably creamy, and you do get the raspberry and an essence of creamy white chocolate, though it feels more tame and not as punchy as it could be. It more or less falls on the sweeter side amongst the Mosh bars.
2. Peanut Butter Crunch
Peanut Butter Crunch, without the chocolate (see the Chocolate version on this list), looks identical to its chocolate-accompanying brother, but this bar doesn’t have any embedded chocolate chips; instead, it only has a bunch of white, crispy pieces. It’s also a little more chewy and creamier, with a sweeter, bolder peanut flavor. I like this bar a lot better; everything about it feels smoother and enjoyable, from the more pronounced, authentic peanut butter to the sweetness and the slight chewiness of the bar itself. At the same time, zero chocolate flavor, of course, as this is without any chocolate!
3. Lemon White Chocolate Crunch
The Lemon White Chocolate Crunch bar is the stiffest, thickest of them all. It’s almost tough to eat and requires a bit of force to bite through its chunkiness. There are bits of white crispie bits which help a little, but man, the overall bar’s texture is quite a resounding “tough and hard chewy.” Taste-wise, it’s a lightly creamy, not punchy sugary lemon. The bar itself isn’t overly sweet; it’s sweet enough and has an authentic lemony taste with a hint of white chocolate. If the lemon were a little punchier, that would be a plus!
4. Cookie Dough Crunch
Upon first glance, Cookie Dough Crunch has the largest chocolate chip pieces and the most embedded pieces and bits of them all. This means that when biting in, you need to be careful as it starts to break apart as the integrity consists a lot of just that despite still having some of the mildly chewy and moist dense texture of the bar as a whole. These chocolate chips and white crispies do help, though, to balance the chewiness, but again, it falls apart so easily! Flavor-wise, it comes across to me as a mild to moderately chocolate-chip bar, kind of a generic-tasting, plain protein bar at that, where the chocolate flavor takes the forefront. I would have liked to have gotten more of a cookie-dough taste instead of chocolate chip, if anything.
5. Peanut Butter Chocolate Crunch
The Peanut Butter Chocolate Crunch bar has white crunchy pieces as well as chocolate chips embedded throughout. Notably, the chocolate pieces are small. When I bit in, I noticed this is a little more gritty and less chewy than several others on this list overall. Parts of it seemed to snap and come off when I bit in–it didn’t feel as moist, and instead was drier and thinner feeling. It has a reasonably sweet, mostly generic peanut taste with a hint of chocolate. Essentially, both the peanut and the chocolate, while present, aren’t very pronounced, leading to a more boring bar than it should be. Overall, this needs more chocolate flavoring and a little more sweetness to improve it; otherwise, just go for the Peanut Butter Crunch flavor without the chocolate.