Review New Millennium Bar & NRG-5 Emergency Ration Bar
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Taste test, nutrition and shelf life review of two emergency food rations, the NRG-5 bars by Katadyn and New Millennium bars by SOS Food Labs.
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NEW MILLENNIUM BARS SPECS
calories per serving, 1 bar: 410
flavors: many... vanilla, coconut, lemon, raspberry, orange, blueberry, tropical fruit, apricot
shelf life, unopened: 5 years
packaging: Mylar vacuum-packed and BPA-free
total fat: 20 g
saturated fat: 11 g
cholesterol: 0 mg
sodium: 15 mg
total carbohydrates: 54 g
dietary fiber: 1 g
sugars: 31 g
protein: 5 g
vitamin A: 0
vitamin C: 19 mg
calcium: 30 mg
iron: 0.6 mg
NRG-5 BARS SPECS
calories per serving, 1 bar: 260
flavors: a sort of chaulky flavor
shelf life, unopened: 20 years
packaging: vacuum-sealed in aluminum composite foil
total fat: 13 g
saturated fat: 12 g
cholesterol: 0 mg
sodium: 0 mg
total carbohydrates: 28 g
dietary fiber: 2 g
sugars: 9 g
protein: 8 g
vitamin A: 216 mcg
vitamin C: 22 mg
calcium: 230 mg
iron: 4 mg
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Oh, my goodness. Thank you for your honesty! 😂 I'm still laughing. The 2nd product and your, '... I could eat this .. but I don't want to' and the telling facial expressions... Oh, my. Priceless. Ha! Thank you! And I will absolutely try the first energy bars. Thanks to you and to your cameraman/editor too.
You're welcome. It would have been a hard reaction to hide. I probably would have exploded. 😄 Thank you for watching and the kind words!
Chris the look on your face says it all about the NRG bars. I would suggest Datrex Ration Bars. They are approved by the United States Coast Guard. They are also designed to be palatable without water. They used to come as standard with American Red Cross emergency kits. Not sure of their status now.
And it's Coop to the rescue... Thank you for mentioning Datrex Ration Bars. I will try those next. So far, I really like the New Millennium bars for an emergency food ration to keep in the car and bag. I'm looking forward to trying the Datrex!
Thank you for the review. We buy the ERbar’s. They last 5 years and when I tried one they were not bad. Like a short bread cookie. They don’t induce thirst either. Maybe review those too?
Thanks for sharing! The shortbread taste sounds good.
I'm eating the new millennium vanilla bar while watching (i just feel like tasting it too).
This is so cool, and special too! Thanks for taste testing in videoland real time. You made my day.
NRG-5 is meant as a true large-scale emergency food for day one aid. The logic is that it has no ingredients that might offend culturally or allergically, and it is fit for starving and infant bodies (that cannot handle many of the ingredients present in other emergency meals). These rations will be logistically easy to provide in large quantities to large, starving populations for a cost effective solution, and the 20 year shelf life means its the best bang for buck to be prepared as a government or NGO. If you are in the back country of Bangladesh and major floods cut off entire cities from the rest of the world... expect these to be included in the day 1 airdrops from the red cross and similar organisations.
In short; Cheap, ready to go anywhere anytime, inoffensive, logistically easy, fit to feed anyone and prevent mass starvation until evacuations can be completed or other, more complex aid schemes can come online. That said, I've read about how they're often used in practice when such emergencies happen and I can tell you it is apparently very good as a porridge with added dried fruits, warm spices like cinnamon and nutmeg or some butter or duck fat... and of course good old salt and pepper.
Now compare to millennium bars... a frankly luxury prepper/hiker item with (relatively speaking) short shelf life (5 years maximum) and high cost per calorie at 145 calories per dollar compared to about 230 calories per dollar on the NRG-5. If the distaster does not happen, you are likely eating the millennium bars every 4 years or so. This means that to be prepped for emergency on millennium bars you are looking at a 29 calories per dollar investment over the same 20 year shelf life of the NRG-5, meaning you are looking at 8 times the cost.
I'd say, these are related but incomparable items. One is truly meant as a cost effective way to prevent starvation, the other as a luxury snack for hikers and preppers. Both have their use case and target audience. Any government would be nuts not to pick NRG-5, but if you are a prepper with plenty of cashflow... the millennium bars will definitely rescue both your body and your morale a lot more.
If you have any NRG-5 left, I'd be very curious to see you try the porridge both plain version and with any form of extra flavouring like some cinnamon and/or dried fruits.
@pieterpuk7684 This is so eloquently written. I would love to try the NRG-5 with cinnamon and dried fruit. Some others have also mentioned ways to make the NRG-5 more palatable. I sometimes like to compare two distantly related items. It can make their true purpose, or best application of each, more obvious. That said, especially if trying an item for the first time, I'm sometimes surprised by it. That was the case with the NRG-5. In hindsight, I see my review didn't do it justice. Thank you so much for your incredibly thoughtful comments. I think a new, proper NRG-5 review is in order.
Thank you for sharing madam
You're welcome. My pleasure. 😊
This is the best review video ive ever seen! I died when you tried the NRG 5 😂
Eating the NRG-5 straight out of the package is kind of impossible for me. 🤣
Katadyn states that the bars are "ready-to-eat, no heating or boiling required." I just can't. One thing I overlooked prior to making the video, is that Katadyn also notes that water can be added to the bars to eat them... "By crushing the compressed bars and adding water, you can prepare a nutritious mash or an energy drink, depending on how much water you add." That might make for an interesting, short, revisit video. I'll be sure to have LOTS of water on hand next time.
I was wondering if you'd ever tried any of the Mary Jane's Farm food options. They have some interesting looking choices. Thanks!
Hello, Mary. I hadn't heard of them before. They look and sound good. Definitely worth a try.
I really like the New Millennium bars
I can see why. They are so good.