Julian Bakery ProGranola Peanut Butter

I recently encountered JulianBakery ProGranola, a delightful breakfast food, at my fitness club's smoothie bar. I usually get my granola from Trader Joe's. Even though I enjoy TJ's granola, it did not score as high on the Yuka scale for healthiness, nor did I feel full. I want only the best for my health. I also want to lose weight, so I shouldn't snack too much because I feel hungry all the time. What I like most is that Julian Bakery ProGranola Cereal is the first granola that has made me feel satiated in a long time. After eating this cereal, I have no cravings and don't even think about snacking anytime soon. It is tasty and affordable. This is my new breakfast :-)

I cannot say enough good things about this tasty, crunchy granola. A bonus is that is it sweetened with monk fruit rather than cane sugar, honey, corn syrup, etc., or even stevia. While the health concerns surrounding the former are well known, stevia has been touted as a natural, low calorie, low carbohydrate natural sweetener substitute for sugar, all of which is true. Although the verdict is still out, some studies indicate that long-term use of stevia can lead to weight gain in some individuals. Apparently, this is attributable to the fact that given stevia’s sweetness, the body expects it to be sugar, which it is not. In order to resolve this confusion, the body breaks down and stores stevia as fat. Thus far, I have not seen any studies indicating this issue with monk fruit although I am not certain why this is the case given the seeming similarity between stevia and monk fruit. That said, the one caveat of this granola, which may not, however, be a cause for concern for some customers, is that only about 2/3rd or 3/4th of the bag is composed of actual peanut clusters. The remaining portion is composed of free-floating peanuts, lots of sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, and cluster crumbs. However, you may not notice this until you reach the bottom 3rd or 4th of the bag. My preference would be for the entire bag to be composed of clusters. However, that might require a level of microlevel quality control that would be too time-consuming.

This flavor tasted like peanut butter and was crunchy. It will be great in yogurt! I will purchase this flavor again!

3 stars for the taste, 1 star for low-carb, 1 star for improved packaging. I like the vanilla cinnamon flavor but don't like the vanilla cluster. But the vanilla cinnamon comes in a bag that does not want to be opened and the cereal is in big chunks that are hard to break up. The vanilla cluster doesn't taste quite right, has an off flavor. This new peanut butter cluster flavor comes in a similar bag but it opens much easier. And the cereal seems to have a little more moisture which makes it easy to break up the chunks. Anyone who's been on a low-carb diet for long may appreciate a peanut butter flavored cereal that only has 2g net carbs.

It’s delicious I love it with milk or plain as a snack. Eat it almost daily

I got my 3 bags a couple days ago. I've eaten this granola alone, and mixed in with yogurt, also topped oatmeal with it. My 1st reaction to the taste is same as another reviewer stated - where is the peanut butter? I see it listed 3rd in the ingredients, but I don't taste it and I don't even taste the cinnamon he complained about. And I had a similar reaction to another reviewer - about an hour after eating it, my stomach started gurgling and the rest of the evening I was really gassy, which is atypical for me. I love KIND granola - the pb & the almond butter. I like the clusters. This is not like that. It's like it was baked on a cookie sheet - flattened - and then broken into pieces when cooled. I am wishing I could have purchased just 1 bag. Because I have 3, & because I don't doubt that it is a beneficial food, I am going to tweak it. I will toss it in a bowl with warmed, thinned peanut butter, or will melt pb chips, spread them over the granola laid out in a shallow pan. The addition of a few calories doesn't bother me because it is so low cal. I need more flavor. The gassiness - well I guess I could try taking Beano like 1 reviewer did. I'm sure I won't buy this again.

I am a weird one, I don't like wet cereal, I eat all cereal dry, this I eat the larger pieces as a trail mix thingy and the bottom of the bag gets like crumbs, so I add it to my yogurt, but I love it, the ingredeitns are good in my humble opinion, I look for soy free, erythritol free, low sat fat, low cholesterol...I also like low carb and high protein...thanks Julian Bakery for leaving the recipe the same too ;-)

True story...laying in bed scrolling on my phone and it’s 11:15 pm. I am on Amazon and see that my peanut butter granola has been delivered. I had checked the mailbox when I got home so that meant it was in the door! Excellent, because I was willing to get out of bed and go to the door vs. going outside to claim my order. I had read a lot of good reviews about this product I so was excited to try it. I poured 1/2 cup into a bowl, added almond milk and a packet of Truvia. Delicious! One of the best bowls of “cereal” I have ever had. Completely worth the violation of not eating before you go to bed. I still crave sweets so the Truvia packet was perfect. It was very good plain as well. Will definitely be purchasing again. P.S. Other reviewers complained about bigger pieces. I thought the pieces were fine. The cluster broke up very easily with a spoon.