Saturday, January 15, 2011

New & Improved products and Clearance options

I can no longer say while doing my P90X (or Insanity) "heck that is why I do the Workouts, for the Recovery Drink". So I am still not over the total disappointment in the "New & Improved" Results and Recovery Drink. After using it for 4-years and seeing only minor flavor changes and liking it through each one, this is a change that is much hard to swallow. Curious what others out there thought.

If you're looking for the old R&R Drink and bars they are on clearance at 35% off on the bars and around 44% off on the Drink. Just sign in to the Team beachbody account and Click on "SHOP", and look for the CLEARANCE section on the left.

My review of the Changed products:
The new drink has an acidic edge that tastes like you're drinking a Vitamin C pill. And while I know it does not have any artificial sweeteners the aftertaste is like it does.

A Discussion of some of the changes can be found on the Team Beachbody Message boards:
New and Improved Results and Recovery Drink

And here (First 5 posts in thread are from 2009 Change)
Did P90X Recovery Drink formula change?

While I was not happy with the P90X Results & Recovery Drink changes, I would generally give "2 thumbs up" on the P90X® Peak Performance Bars. Soy protein Crisps seem to be contained in all the bars now. All the bars seem to have lost the Brown Rice Syrup, which is replaced with polyglycitol syrup. Most of the bars dropped about 10 Calories, but were also reduced in Sugars from mid 20's to mid-teens. Isomalto-oligosaccharides (prebiotic fiber) was added to the bars.
(Note: Last I checked the links to the flavor labels did not open with the Firefox Browser)

Cafe Mocha
- was a bit more coffee strong, which may be good for some.
Chocolate Peanut Butter - got the addition of Peanut Flour, which may be what gives it a more "peanutty" taste as opposed to Almond/vanilla before.
Wildberry Yogurt - happy about this change. I had always thought they were a bit too sweet before, they are getting better.
Chocolate Fudge - Similar to previous, maybe a bit softer and smoother.

All in all looks like our family is still going to use "New & Improved" P90X protein bars. As for the R&R drink ... still hoping for a NEW "New & Improved".

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