Myprotein Protein Cookies Review - Chocolate Mint Flavour
Myprotein MyBar cookies are a high protein snack which come in four delicious flavours suitable for any hour of the day
The Myprotein healthy snack range
If you're looking for a snack to graze on throughout the day or a healthy evening dessert, Myprotein sell a wide selection of high quality products packed full of protein such as beef jerky, biltong and protein bars. One of their most successful product lines is the MP MAX MyBar range. This range includes protein cookies sold in four delicious flavours. These flavours are White Chocolate Almond, Chocolate Orange, Double Chocolate and the brand new Chocolate Mint. Retailing at £16.49 for a box of 12, each cookie is 75g in weight with bulk discounts available depending on how many boxes you buy. Myprotein sent us one of their new Chocolate Mint protein cookies to review so keep reading for our verdict.
Myprotein Protein Cookie Nutritional Information
The Myprotein cookie contains a huge 37.5g of protein per cookie. In comparison, a scoop of whey will usually provide around 22-26g and a protein bar will tend to provide under 30g. Each cookie is baked using a combination of simple and complex carbohydrates. It is the ideal snack for those of you who might work in an office and start to feel hungry mid afternoon in the long break until you can go home and make your dinner. Alternatively for those of you looking to get regular feeds in throughout the day, the Myprotein cookie can ensure you keep your protein levels topped up at regular intervals. It is also a good snack to consume post workout because the carbohydrates and sugar will help replenish your body and fuel recovery.
Cookies of similar size which you can buy from supermarkets are very tempting for those of us with a sweet tooth because they are very moreish but also very bad for you. They are packed full of bad sugars, bad fats and e-numbers. Whilst the Myprotein cookie also contains sugar and flavourings as they are needed to create the flavours and dough, the amount of sugar is far less than a cookie you would buy elsewhere and the protein content is far superior. This is why a box of 12 is priced at £16.49. It might seem expensive but you get what you pay far (i.e. plenty of protein per serving).
I was looking at the nutritional ingredients of a cookie from Millie's Cookies to compare and noticed that a Classic Double Chocolate cookie from there contains just 2.3g of protein compared with Myprotein's 37.5g! It contains 21.9g of carbs compared with Myprotein's 19.55g. Millie's cookie contains 11.8g sugar compared with Myprotein's 7.32g and Myprotein's does not contain all the monosaturated and polyunsaturated fats like Millie's Cookies offering.
Chocolate Mint Cookie Review
I read some of the reviews on Myprotein.com before eating the Chocolate Mint cookie which Myprotein sent for review. They were all extremely positive and the product currently has a 5/5 star overall rating for taste and effectiveness.
As expected from 75g, the cookie is a decent size and each one comes in its own individual wrapper so perfect to store for as long as you wish, especially as each cookie has a long use by date. What I really want to emphasise is the taste. Often with high protein snacks such as protein bars they tend to be quite chewy and dry. The Myprotein cookie to my surprise was nothing of the sort. It was soft, easy to digest and tasted fantastic. There was a very strong chocolate mint sensation and I didn't need a cup of coffee or tea alongside it to digest it thoroughly. If you didn't know it had 37g of protein in you would easily mistake it for a regular cookie.
