Nutrigrain Ginger Elevenses Eaten
New from Kelloggs that makes a decent trail snack and tastes yum, but is it good for you?
Posted: 25 July 2002
by Jon
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Kelloggs Nutrigrain Elevenses
Ginger
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Price: £1.60 for
six bars
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Weight: 46 grammes (including stuff
sac, 45 grammes without)
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Features: Wheat
and oatmeal bake bar with ginger, comes in packs of six,
bars individually wrapped, 1 bar gives 170 calories, 9
per-cent fat content, 66 per-cent carbohydrate, 5 per-cent
protein, 38 per-cent sugar, suitable for
vegetarians
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Tastes nice and the Queen eats them.
E numbers a go go.
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New from Kelloggs is the ginger version of their Nutrigrain Elevenses
bar. Much more moist and edible than the original, sawdust-packed
Nutrigrain and it's unpleasant sister, the yoghurt-filled thing, the
Elevenses quickly established itself in many rucksacs alongside the
venerable fig roll and awkward to carry malt loaf. 
The new ginger version takes the original and adds a ginger taste
to it. You can spot it by the lurid orange metallic wrapper. On the
plus side it's relatively affordable - fig rolls are still number one
for value and cheap walking nutrition though we reckon - comes in a
self-contained wrapper, is slightly chewy so doesn't mind being
squashed and has a moist, sweet taste with gingery overtones that's
reminiscent of Jamaica Ginger Cake.
The fat content is a little high at nine per-cent, but if you're
out on the hill that shouldn't worry you unduly, of more concern is
that 38 per-cent of it's sugar from invert sugar syrup, glucose
syrup, sugar and molasses which together probably offset the benefit
of the rolled oat content. We'd like to see more of the carbs coming
from fruit.
Also not entirely lovely is an array of e-numbers in the forms of
emulsifiers, colourings, preservatives and stabilisers. It means
they'll keep for ages but it's a shame something marketed as an
ostensibly healthy product contains so many additives. Still tastes
okay though, if a little on the sweet side for regular eating.
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Verdict: Tastes good and the
gingery tang offsets some of the sweetness that comes with
the 38 per-cent sugar and while nurtitionally it's not
perfect, it's arguably not as bad as, say, munching pure
sugar, aka Kendal Mint Cake, or chocy bars. A lot of
e-numbers, but if you don't give a stuff about those, this
is a tasty, practical trail snack and more or less squash
proof too since it just flattens under pressure with no
catastrophic failure.
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Performance
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Value
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Pushed for time:
By royal appointment, the ginger version of the
Nutrigrain Elevenses taste nice and moist and gingery but
have too much sugar and e-numbered additives to please the
really fussy. Taste nice though and make a welcome change
from fig rolls.
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