Cadbury Boost

I remember the good old days when you used to be able to get Boost's in 3 different varieties - if I remember rightly it was Biscuit, Coconut and Peanut. Coconut was always my absolute favourite, but then Cadbury made the decision to narrow the Boost range down to just one. Joy of joys, it was my least favourite of the bunch and what we have today - the Biscuit Boost.

First of all - let's not be fooled here. Cadbury decided to tag it with the line "Charged with glucose". In simple terms, a massive third of your recommended sugar allowance! But that's okay - Cadbury certainly wouldn't be the first to take something like that and make it sound like the chocolate equivalent of an energy drink.

What we have is basically a caramel "tube", with a biscuity filling and a thick milk chocolate coating. Taking this bit at a time; milk chocolate coating? Well, Cadbury chocolate is as it always is - distinctive, smooth and very sweet. Caramel? Soft chewy texture (with a bit of leakage on mine) and tastes pretty much like the softer Caramel in the Cadbury Dairy Milk with Caramel, or whatever they're calling it now. I can't keep up. Anyway - sweet, sticky. Fairly average really.

The filling is where I become a bit unstuck (and not a caramelly way!). It has the biscuity bits in, yes, which give it a nice bit of crunch. I like them. However, they are suspended in some "stuff" that I can't quite place. It is soft sort of truffley texture with a rather insipid taste. A bit like instant drinking chocolate. They don't even describe it on the wrapper. And quite frankly, when I looked at the ingredients (which I don't do that often) to try and get a hint of what it might be, there was so much crap in there, I almost regretted eating the bar.

Almost. But it was okay for a one off. I won't be running out to get another one any time soon. Unless of course they bring back the coconut version, in which case I will have to build a new "cupboard of love" . . .

(what I did find interesting was that on doing a search for "Boost" on Cadbury's home page, not one result came back. Not one!!!!)

HOW NAUGHTY IS IT?
Calories: 315
Fat: 17.8g
( per bar)

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