Quinoa has escaped the grain bowl and landed inside candy. Honestly, a strong career move.
UNREAL’s Dark Chocolate Crispy Quinoa Gems combine organic quinoa crisps, dark chocolate, and a colorful candy shell. Beetroot juice and spirulina extract provide the color. It’s a familiar chocolate-counter experience with a few ingredient choices that make you turn the bag around. Meet the Quinoa Gems.
That’s the broader idea behind UNREAL, a chocolate snack company making peanut butter cups, coconut bars, chocolate-covered nuts, and other recognizable treats. We haven’t tasted them ourselves yet. What caught our attention is how the formulas give shoppers something specific to consider beyond bright packaging.
The coconut bar deserves a closer look
UNREAL’s Dark Chocolate Coconut Bars have three main components: organic coconut, organic cassava syrup, and dark chocolate. The chocolate itself contains chocolate liquor, cane sugar, cocoa butter, and vanilla, so “three ingredients” is shorthand for a slightly longer actual list.
Coconut supplies the filling, cassava syrup sweetens it, and dark chocolate provides the coating. One small, 15-gram bar contains 70 calories and 3 grams of sugar, all added. It also contains 4.5 grams of saturated fat, or 23% of the Daily Value. That’s useful context: the sugar number tells only part of the nutrition story. Coconut bar ingredients and nutrition.
For someone who wants a small chocolate-and-coconut treat, that individually wrapped format could fit neatly beside an afternoon coffee. No elaborate snack preparation required.
Familiar candy, different details
The Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups use organic peanuts and peanut flour, alongside dark chocolate, cane sugar, palm oil, agave inulin, and sunflower lecithin. Each 15-gram cup contains 80 calories and 5 grams of added sugar. UNREAL labels these cups certified vegan and gluten-free. Peanut butter cup details.
Across its lineup, UNREAL says it avoids artificial sweeteners and sugar alcohols. That gives shoppers who prefer conventional sweeteners another option, although it doesn’t make the candy sugar-free. UNREAL’s formulation approach.
And the quinoa? It brings crunch, but don’t mistake the Gems for a protein snack. Their 30-gram serving provides 2 grams of protein and 15 grams of added sugar. The interesting detail is the texture ingredient, not a nutritional transformation. Gems nutrition.
Check the wrapper, then pick your treat
Vegan doesn’t mean allergy-safe. The peanut butter cups contain peanuts, and all three products discussed here disclose shared equipment with milk chocolate. Check the specific package if allergies affect your choice.
UNREAL lists retailers including Target, Whole Foods Market, Costco, and Walmart, with local selection varying. Its store locator can help narrow the search.
Our first pick would be the Quinoa Gems. We’re curious what that crunch brings to movie night. Quinoa has already had enough working lunches.