What fitness endeavor hasn’t eventually come across the rice cake? It is simple, low calorie, crunchy and tasty. Its most subtle and perhaps most important point of appeal for the fitness minded is that there is a lot of it to munch on for so few calories. In other words it is high on the, “best bang for your buck,” scale of snack satisfaction. Enter Quaker’s Chocolate Rice Cakes. Like many products, they look chocolatey and boast chocolate pieces in them (each cake is 60 calories, with 1g protein, 1g fat and 12g carbs). Quaker does it differently and their execution is spot on. The chocolate flavor is just right for the rice cake, but the real finesse is from the chocolate pieces. They are not merely the random flat broken pieces or chunks that you see in many other snacks. They are small peppercorn-sized pebbles that have just the right toothy bite and burst of sweetness. They are sometimes alone and sometimes clustered, giving variety to each encounter. Their distribution and amount on the cake is good too – never just on one side or otherwise absent. Our family is constantly fighting over them and we can’t seem to keep enough in the pantry. Well done Quaker!

