So. I am a Bzz Agent. I signed up with BzzAgent many years ago to give my opinion on new products, website, services, etc. I got a set of coupons to try out this new candy called UNREAL. I’m not a huge candy eater. It takes me quite a while to make it through a regular bag of M&M’s. But I was intrigued and wanted to try it out.

Unreal Candy Display at Walgreen's

UNREAL bills itself as “unjunked” candy. No HFCS, no GMOs, no artificial colors and flavors, no partially hydrogenated oils, and 40% less sugar.  Great idea, but how does it work in practice? Pretty well actually. I used a coupon and got a bag of UN 41, a plain M&M’s clone. As you may have noted from the picture above, they have peanut and plain M&M like candies, a Milky Way clone, and a peanut butter cup clone. The Walgreen’s I visited did not have the Milky Way and since I’m not a fan of peanuts, that left me with UN 41. I had no trouble redeeming the coupon, but I did have a problem figuring out which was which. Look at the picture of the display. It shows the blue bags having peanuts and the green without. This was wrong. So pay attention to what’s on the bag and not the pictures on the display.

Candy in hand, I headed home to try it. Not bad. The candy coating was actually sweeter than the chocolate inside. For a second I actually thought it was dark chocolate. It was pretty good. If I were a regular M&M eater, I would buy this instead. Why? They taste like Smarties. Smarties are also chocolate candies similar to M&M’s (larger) and sold in the UK. To get them imported would cost a ridiculous amount of money, so UN 41 is a nice alternative.

I appreciate what UNREAL is doing, but you’re still eating candy. I don’t get any warm fuzzies knowing that I’m not eating pure junk, but I do feel a little better. I wish UNREAL well and I hope their candy takes off. If I can find a place that has UN 54 (Milky Way) I’ll do a review of that later.

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