{"id":3851,"date":"2010-08-19T17:35:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T03:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=3851"},"modified":"2010-08-19T17:35:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T03:35:26","slug":"gu-chomps-energy-chews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/08\/19\/gu-chomps-energy-chews\/","title":{"rendered":"GU Chomps Energy Chews"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GU_Chomps_packaging\"<\/a>\"GU_Chomps_block\"<\/a>Similar to Clif Shot Bloks<\/a>, these gummy energy blocks from the makers of GU gel are a convenient medium between energy gels and full-blown energy bars. The size and consistency are similar to the Clif Shot Bloks, but they seem to be a little less sweet. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen three flavors – blueberry\/pomegranate, strawberry, and cranberry\/apple. The strawberry and cranberry\/apple have caffeine, but the blueberry\/pomegranate does not (boo!). The packaging is like the original Clif packaging, where once opened, there is no built-in way to reclose the bag or otherwise keep the unused portion from escaping. If you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t eat the whole 60-gram package at once, stash a rubber band to hold the package shut, or tear a hole just small enough to force a single block through and hope for the best. The caloric value is listed as 180 calories for the entire 8-block package, with 100mg of sodium total: The similar Clif product is 200 calories for 6-blocks with 140mg of sodium (for the non-sodium enriched flavors). It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pretty clear that the GU product was designed to be a direct competitor to the Clif one. On a recent trail ride, I passed around a package of the blueberry\/pomegranate flavor, and everyone in the ride group was positive about them.\u00c2\u00a0 Last year, Root did a review on these also – click here<\/a> for his review.<\/p>\n

Made in The USA<\/p>\n

About $2.00 USD retail<\/p>\n

Recommended<\/p>\n

Three out of four carbo-monkeys<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Similar to Clif Shot Bloks, these gummy energy blocks from the makers of GU gel are a convenient medium between energy gels and full-blown energy bars. The size and consistency are similar to the Clif Shot Bloks, but they seem to be a little less sweet. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen three flavors – blueberry\/pomegranate, strawberry, and cranberry\/apple. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5,8,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-107","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}