“The taste of the plenny shake vanilla was not as nice as expected. Couldn’t drink the whole thing. Second time it tasted better, added more water to it. But flavour is personal of course. Easy to use tho. The twennybar vanilla tasted much better than the shake, but not great. Didn’t have that healthy feeling to it. But kept me satisfied for an hour or two.”
“I've used a few different powdered foods but Jimmy Joy is the one I regularly come back to. The main appeal is the price - it's significantly cheaper than all the others on the market, while still ticking all the right boxes (such as high protein). The other big advantage over its competitors is the consistency: it's very smooth and dissolves nicely into an easy-to-drink shake. Some other brands, like Huel, are very very thick and often form lumps of undissolved powder no matter how much you shake them. That's never an issue with Jimmy Joy.
There is a downside, though - the flavours are really, really sweet. They use a sweetener called Sucralose, which gives it a very sweet flavour and a bit of a cloying, sickly aftertaste. I don't have a sweet tooth so I really dislike this. Unfortunately it kind of limits my flavour options: vanilla makes me feel sick, I hate the taste of bananas and mangoes, and the cocoa powder in the chocolate upsets my stomach...leaving me with only strawberry. For this reason I'm not going to make JJ my only powdered food source, but will continue to get some others for variety. I'll try out the neutral to see how that compares, but it's frustrating that it's only available in vegan.
I absolutely despise JJ's marketing, their childish dudebro image, and the obnoxious Innocent Smoothie-style copy. They're trying to make something routine and clinical - reducing your nutritional needs to some sludge made in a lab - seem fun and cool and hip, when it clearly isn't. But for the reasons described above (price and consistency), I still grudgingly buy the stuff no matter how much more Huel or Rosa Labs' image appeals to me and strikes me as more appropriate. Ultimately I can get the same nutrition from any manufacturer, but only JJ is easy on my wallet too.
The Twennybars are good too - unlike many other bars on the market they have a decent amount of calories and a decent price (nearly twice as many calories as Queal bars yet still cheaper than them). They're still too expensive to make a fixture of my diet like the shake, though: 10 euros 'per day' (i.e. 2000 calories) rather than 6 or less for the shake. The bars are not too sweet - quite pleasant actually.”
“I love those bars, I tried few other brands but it is nothing compared to the Joylent bars (jimmy joy now), as they are not simply a snack but a real can be a real meal (ex if you take 2 of them).
My fav are the chocolate ones !”
“I always have a box of chocolate twenny bars in my drawer in the office, I usually eat 1 or 2 a day. I could never eat 5 of them in one day but that's ok, I see it more as a snack and not as a full replacement for normal meals.”
“I definitely like the twennybar: not too small, not too big, low in sugar, nice consistency. A bit pricey though but all in all it's worth it for me.”
“Cheap, quick to make, healthy. Somewhat tasty. Only downsides: missing savoury flavours, twennybars are so expensive that normal food would be more convenient.”
