This brand is amazing! No product of them has disappointed me! These make no exception! Great taste, awesome ingredients, good price! I recommend this brand to anyone who wants a healthier choice for chocolate, fruits and nuts. Love it!

Blackberries are my favourite berry, so I was pleased that the flavour comes through in this bar. It was not too sweet, but the addition of dark chocolate makes it feel like a treat. I will definitely recommend this to friends and I intend to purchase this snack bar again!

I received this product for free as part of the ChickAdvisor Product Review Club.

I was a lucky Chick to get this wonderful bar from ChickAdvisors Review Club. I really liked how the bar had an assortment of nuts and seeds, not just peanuts. The chocolate was great quality, not the usual granola bar waxy kind. I love blackberries and combined with the cranberry they added a nice sweetness to it and made me feel like I was eating an even healthier granola bar. The taste was good but I would of liked if it was a little bit softer. It was my favourite of the 3 sent to me and I would buy this product again if it was on sale for sure. Even though it is a premium bar it still seems a little pricey for my budget.

This bar had a great balance of sweet and bitter. The balance of the dark chocolate and the berries was perfect. I like that the bars are gluten free and non-GMO.

The first thing that you (and your husband, lol) notice when you open the wrapper is the scent. The Fruit and Nut bar smells like Brookside chocolate we've come to know and love. There's a good amount chocolate, and it tastes good. Texture-wise, the bar itself is chewy with a generous amount of crunchy nuts. The bar is also pretty filling for it's size. I loved that it is GMO-free and a great source of fibre. It's just not super healthy because it contains about 13g of sugar. Some of that is from the fruit so take note.
I received this as part of the Product Review Club in exchange for an honest review.

This bar was the perfect balance between sweet and tart, the dark chocolate with the tartness of the cranberries and blackberries was delicious. However I did find this a bit too nutty for my liking.

I received the Brookside Dark Chocolate Fruit & Nut Bars from the Product Review Club.

These initial comments are relevant to all 3 flavours and flavour specific comments are below.
My first impression was that they looked amazing. I really liked the transparent packaging. The Visual appeal of the bars is strong with quality ingredients being prominently displayed.

The portion size is good although $2.00 a bar is a too high in my opinion.

They use lots of buzzwords like Gluten Free, High Fibre, Source of Antioxidant, All Natural Flavours etc. based on the marketing and packaging of the bars, I believed that I was getting a really healthy, wholesome bar that I could feel good about eating.

After tasting the bars and reading the ingredient list I'm not so sure that's true. Look closely at the ingredients and you will find that almost 50% of the bars main ingredients are or include high sugar components. (The ingredients are more or less the same for each of the 3 flavours)

(Ingredient #2) Dark Chocolate (sugar; Chocolate; Cocoa Butter; Milk Fat; Cocoa Processed With Alkali; Soy Lecithin; Milk; Salt; Vanilla)
Sweetened Blueberries (blueberries; Sugar)
High Maltose Corn Syrup
Sweetened Cranberries (CRANBERRIES; Sugar; Grape Juice Concentrate; Blueberry Juice Concentrate; Sunflower Oil)
Invert Sugar
Sugar

I think its important to be fully aware of the true nature of a product rather than the presented nature of a product. If you are buying this bar because you think its a super healthy alternative to some of the other popular snack options you may be mistaken.

The Cranberry Blackberry flavour was OK. As with the pomegranate and acai the blackberry is present as “flavour only”. I find the intensity of the sweetness to be hard to get past and it takes away from the highlights of the bar. love the whole almonds and the pumpkin seeds, I love the texture and the crunch of the bars, and I love the visual appeal of the product. I wish the fruit was not soaked in sugar and I wish that high maltose corn syrup was not used as the binding agent. The dark chocolate is the second listed ingredient on the bars and its flavour is completely lost among the rest of the sweetness.

I was given the opportunity to test the Brookside Dark Chocolate Fruit and Nut Bar Cranberry with Blackberry. This would not be the first flavour combo I would reach for but the flavour is amazing and I am now converted. I enjoyed the chewy texture and it satisfied me for the late afternoon snack time

This was my least favorite of the three flavours but i still liked it. Cranberry flavor made it quite bitter. Might have been better with a milk chocolate but since dark chocolate is also bitter i found the taste to be not as pleasant as the others.

I was given all three bars by Chick Advisor and I was delighted that they all tasted great! Out of the three flavours the cranberry with blackberry was the least flavourful for me. But it still had great flavour, it just wasn't as distinguished as the others. I love a chewy, semi crunchy snack, and this was perfect for my taste buds. I had a hard time savouring the flavour as they were all so yummy. Chocolate/nuts and fruit ... you can't go wrong! They are all a must try! Thanks Chick Advisor!