Snack of the Week: Quest's got more protein chips that don't taste like health food
Except the peanut M&M candies. Those, they can keep.
Welcome back to FTW’s Beverage of the Week series. Here, we mostly chronicle and review beers, but happily expand that scope to any beverage that pairs well with sports. Yes, even cookie dough whiskey. Sometimes we do food, too.
When we last reviewed Quest’s protein snacks here, I came to a conclusion. Whey protein is gonna make pretty much anything taste like dairy; the challenge of turning it into a crushable snack is finding flavors that work with that.
It was a hit with loaded taco Dorito-esque chips. Less so with chili lime. And so in the last few months Quest has gone back to the drawing board with a new lineup of tortilla-style chips and sweets. Each single-serving bag of chips clocks in at around 140 calories and promises 19 to 20 grams of protein (the cheese crackers are less on both counts, at 130 calories and 10 grams). They’ll each cost you nearly $3 per 1.1-ounce bag, making them an expensive choice compared to its less filling brethren.
Let’s start with Quest’s new flavors, then wrap with the stuff I reviewed last year for comparison.