Menchie’s Treats to Go Fruit Bars and Fro-yo Sandwiches Review

Fro-yo girl here. Menchie’s recently introduced five new frozen “Treats to Go.” These treats are available in the freezer section of participating Menchie’s locations. The fruit bars, which come in single flavor boxes with 6 bars per box, come in coconut, mango, and strawberry. Made with no artificial flavors, no artificial colors, and no high fructose corn syrup, the bars are gluten free and vegan. The frozen yogurt cookie sandwiches come in single flavor boxes with four sandwiches per box. There are two flavors, Vanilla Snow and Milk Chocolate. The Menchie’s that I visited was selling the fruit bars for $5.99/box and the fro-yo sandwiches for $6.49/box.

Each fruit bar is 1.75 fl oz. I tried the strawberry fruit bar. It was good – it tasted natural like sweetened strawberry puree. I could see some strawberry seeds. It was sweet and a little tangy. The bar was firm and icy. It melted slowly. One bar was 50 calories, with 11g total sugars and fat free.

Ingredients: Strawberries, water, sugar, corn syrup solids, natural flavors, citric acid, beet juice concentrate, stabilizer (guar gum, xanthan gum).

I like how the first ingredient was strawberries. With Popsicle bars, the first ingredient is water, then sugar. Even with Outshine strawberry bars, the first ingredient is water, then strawberries. Menchie’s fruit bars have more fruit.

I also purchased the Vanilla Snow fro-yo sandwiches. The fro-yo sandwich featured two chocolate chip cookies, about 3 inches in diameter, and a thick layer of vanilla froyo with a fudge swirl in the middle. The cookies were soft with crunchy chocolate chips. The vanilla frozen yogurt flavor was mild with a creamy, soft texture. The yogurt held its shape and was a little chewy. I could not taste yogurt and the flavor of the cookie was the dominant flavor. The softness reminded me of cookie dough. The fudge swirl made it more interesting and there wasn’t so much that it was overwhelming. I thought it was a good, sweet, decadent froyo sandwich. One sandwich is 4.2 oz and has 310 calories, 11g total fat, 48g total carbohydrate, and 35g total sugars.

Ingredients: Vanilla yogurt (pasteurized & cultured skim milk, sugar, cream, corn syrup, whey, non fat dry milk, stabilizer & emulsifier (microcrystalline cellulose, mono & diglycerides, cellulose gum, guar gum, carrageenan, pectin, standardized with maltodextrin), artificial flavor, chocolate chunk cookies (enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, chocolate chunks (sugar, unsweetened chocolate, cocoa butter, soy lecithin, vanilla extract), palm oil, sugar, butter, eggs, invert syrup, salt, natural flavor, whey, baking soda), fudge swirl (water, sugar, natural flavor, brown sugar, non fat dry milk, sunflower lecithin).

You know you love me. X0 X0, fro-yo girl.

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