King Whey Protein Crunch was one of the many entirely new supplements Ronnie Coleman Signature Series unveiled at this year’s FIBO Expo. The product is, of course, a protein bar, which is the brand’s first ever edible release. We recently got sent a sample of each of its two flavors, to bring you a pre-release King Whey Crunch review.
While we have got pre-release versions of Ronnie Coleman’s King Whey Crunch, we can’t, unfortunately, confirm all of the supplement’s details. The samples we received only give us the macros of the 57g protein bar in 20g of protein, 21g of carbohydrates with a gram of that fiber and 6g sugar, 10g of fat, and a total of 240 calories.
King Whey Crunch filling
Like most protein bars on the market, King Whey Crunch is broken down into a couple of layers. Around the outside of the protein bar is a solid flavor loaded coat, filled with chocolate crisps. Then in the middle is your typical doughy block, however, with King Whey Crunch the brand has managed to make it quite a soft, easy to eat center. The middle layer isn’t at all chewy, despite how much it looks like it is, and it goes over nicely when chewed with the rest of the bar.
Triple Chocolate overload
The first flavor for our King Whey Crunch review is Triple Chocolate, your typical chocolate loaded protein bar. Ronnie Coleman has packed this one with various chocolate flavors instead of it feeling like the one chocolate taste from start to finish. You get the solid outer layer, which is chocolate flavored and thicker than you’d expect.
You then have the mass amount of chocolate crisps, that add a new consistency to the mix, then the brownie like center to top it all off. The Triple Chocolate bar is a solid chocolate effort, that’ll likely go down well with most chocolate lovers. The bar does have quite a rich, sweet chocolate taste to it, so it is more for chocolate overload fans than general chocolate.
Peanut butter pockets
Peanut Butter is the other flavor we have for our King Whey Crunch review, that in our minds is the better of the two, despite favoring chocolate most of the time. The Peanut Butter King Whey Crunch blends together a solid balance of being not too strong and not too light. It has a smooth, peanut butter like taste to it, which stays consistent from start to finish.
When you bite into the protein bar it’s mostly a light peanut flavor that’s almost pushed aside by the crisps scattered across the top. As you bite in deeper though, the peanut butter center reinforces the title flavor. The center is also filled with pockets of concentrated peanut butter, driving home that smooth, consistent taste we were talking about.
King Whey Crunch overall
Ronnie Coleman’s Signature Series King Whey Protein Crunch is definitely a strong first entry into the protein bar category, which has become incredibly competitive over the past couple of years. It features a softness that makes it feel like a lot of the other well put together protein bars introduced over the past year or two.
If you’re a regular protein bar eater, it could be worth purchasing this one when it eventually becomes available depending on the type of bars you like. King Whey Crunch sort of falls between ProSupps MyBar and the likes of Muscletech’s Nitro-Tech Crunch and MusclePharm’s Combat Crunch. It has a softness and smoothness similar to MyBar, but a less intense flavor more like Nitro-Tech and Combat Crunch.