US vs UK Snickers | Food Wars

from calorie counter portion sizes we wanted to find out all the differences between snickers in the uk and the us this is food wars in the us our snickers come in seven sizes the smallest one is something called bites which i could not get my hands on i looked on amazon they're way too expensive i don't know why either if i had snickers bites they'd be in share size bags which is about 80.2 grams and a grab and go bites bag which is 133.2 grams the next size up from that are these the minis look at this little guy next size from that is the fun size the halloween candy size then from there we have the 100 calorie bar next size up from that is of course the standard snickers bar next size up is the share size of the two bars and the biggest size this one the slice and share this is one pound or roughly 453.6 grams in the uk snickers bars come in a range of sizes now candy bar sizes are a controversial topic in the uk because it's well known that they've been shrinking in recent years due to that there may be some slight discrepancies between the sizes depending on where you get your candy bars but we've tried to be as comprehensive as possible we'll start on this side with the smallest one we can get which is a 20 gram 99 calorie snickers bar from there we move up to a snack size bar which is 35.5 grams then we have a couple of forms of single bars the first one being this one which comes in a multi-pack and is 41.7 grams next up is what we think is the standard single bar which is this one which is 48 grams recently in the uk they've introduced these creamy peanut butter bars these are little bite-sized pieces and each one is 18.25 grams these come as a portion of three like this bar here or as a bag of ten the largest snickers in the uk is this one the snickers duo now this contains two 41.7 gram bars leaving the total at 83.4 grams [Music] a u.s snickers bar has the following milk chocolate which is made up of sugar cocoa butter chocolate skim milk lactose milk fat soy lecithin and artificial flavors peanuts corn syrup sugar palm oil skim milk lactose salt egg whites and artificial flavors in the uk a snickers bar contains the following sugar peanuts glucose syrup skimmed milk powder cocoa butter cocoa mass sunflower oil palm fat lactose and protein from whey from milk whey powder from milk milk fat emulsifier soy lecithin salt coconut oil egg white powder natural vanilla extract milk protein milk chocolate contains milk solids 14 minimum and milk chocolate contains vegetable fat in addition to cocoa butter according to uk rules a product must contain no less than 25 cocoa solids to be considered milk chocolate and in the u.s the rule is our milk chocolate must contain no less than 10 of chocolate liqueur which is a roughly equal mix of cocoa salads and cocoa butter also it's worth pointing out for snickers specifically you'll notice our version contains corn syrup whereas the uk snickers has glucose syrup what's the difference well corn syrup can be a type of glucose syrup but not all glucose syrups are made from corn liquid glucose can be derived from lots of different fruits and vegetables like grapes apricots cranberries jackfruits etc according to the usda and on name alone i'm going to go ahead and assume that corn syrup is only made from corn i realized that you're probably not eating snickers to be healthy but research has shown that many of the detrimental effects associated with added sugars are due to fructose rather than glucose [Music] now people in the uk really turn their noses up at us chocolate our chocolate just tends to be way richer and smoother and whenever i've had american chocolate in the past i'm always left with like a weird vomity aftertaste from it and i'm not entirely sure why one potential reason for the difference is the uk chocolate tends to have a higher fat and cocoa content it has been a while since my last u.s chocolate experience i picked some hershey's up from an american store i'm gonna try it and see if it's the same this has like a weird glossiness to it that i don't fully trust what have i got on this the texture's bad this is like grainy definitely not as smooth as a uk chocolate bar that i'm used to i'm not getting quite so much of the vomit aftertaste as i seem to remember which is good i guess i'm taking uk chocolate anyway i'm afraid so i was thinking there's a hair in here i chew i've never compared the two so i'm going to break off a piece of the uk and the us i mean just by virtue of like the distribution of stuff it looks different doesn't it i don't know what uk vomit tastes like but my vomit doesn't taste like that and now for the first time that i'm aware of i'm going to try a uk snickers the chocolate is way smoother way creamier way more flavorful and i don't know how this is possible but i g the the peanuts are way nicer that's what i notice of that bite and i have more peanuts or the peanuts are more pronounced like it's not even close man that was great i thought it was going to be like yeah no that is like a stark difference to say the least that is a stark difference and way better wow [Music] in the u.s a snickers bar this one specifically has 250 calories 12 grams of fat 4.5 grams of saturated fat 125 milligrams of sodium 32 grams of carbs 28 grams of sugar and 4 grams of protein something to note a few years ago the mars corporation did away with the king-sized candy bugs to cut portion sizes to 250 calories or below but this share size says it has two portions of 220 calories right please this is the serving size i don't know how many people are actually getting this to share but that pales in the comparison of hungry people who are getting exactly this one to eat okay that is a dirty trick it's not 220 calories it's 440 calories the share size give me a break in the uk a 48 gram stickers bar which comes in slightly bigger at 1.69 ounces nice contains the following 245 calories 13.4 grams of fat 4.6 grams of saturated fat 88 milligrams of sodium 26.1 grams of carbs of which 21.6 a sugar and 4.6 grams of protein the most calorific snickers you can get in the us is the snickers slice and share this is a one pound snickers bar for sharing yeah right and it's 2080 calories so i'm gonna quiz connor the cameraman right now on here it says 130 calories but it says per serving how many serving sizes do you think this is eight you think it's eight double it sixteen it's six they expect 16 people to split this what no maybe maybe four in the uk the most calorific snickers bar is the duo bar now one of these if you eat the whole thing will contain 426 calories [Music] here are all the snickers products you'll find in the uk that you won't find easily in the us here's all the snickers varieties native to the u.s you can't get really in the uk unless they have access to the internet they're native to here we'll start with this one which is actually a new product in the uk as well it's a 99 calorie snickers bar look at that teeny tiny snickers bar i mean i guess the point of these is if you're trying to diet or lose weight but i feel like having a small amount like this just makes me want even more so i would probably eat one of these and then go back and finish off the rest of the box which ends up being counter productive then we're onto this one which apparently you guys don't have in the us as well which is the snickers duo not a huge amount to say about this one it's just the classic snickers bar but obviously split into two smaller bars then run through this one which is the snickers crisp this is another new product which i have not tried before so i might dissect it to see what's going on inside oh it's like two little bits okay okay so it's like a snickers bar but instead of the nougat base you get some rice krispies that's worse than the classic snickers also how do you pronounce is it nougat nougat versus nougat sound off in the comments i was surprised to learn that you guys don't have fun size or bite size snickers maybe a good thing so we have the snickers two to go bar and they have the snickers duo bar feels like it's the same thing now they look at it right can we confirm that those are the same thing or that they're different peanut brownie [Music] no not not into that at all snickers almond also i couldn't get my hands on it but in the u.s you can also get a snickers almond butter and a snickers maple almond butter i don't know where those are but i really want those okay so i feel like it's so sick i'm gonna get so sick yeah if i had my choice i'd probably get one of these instead of a regular snickers i was able to get hold of a couple of the us exclusives i got hold of the crunchy peanut butter one and the peanut brownie one now i love any combination of peanut and chocolate so i want to try the crunchy peanut butter one to see how it compares to our creamy peanut butter one peanut and chocolate is just a goat combination [Music] i actually don't love that the texture on the peanut butter is a bit weird bit grainy let's try the creamy version in the uk to see if that's any better yeah okay this one's better the texture is better the caramel has a bit more firmness to it so you get a contrast between that and the peanut butter the peanut butter itself is less grainy and awful and also it's just like slightly less aggressively sweet than the us version so i think we win this round as i said i also got hold of the peanut brownie snickers bar so let's give this one a try it's not bad i think my feedback for this and also the crunch you want would be to have more whole peanuts in there because you know then you get the texture contrast you get flavor no one's going to complain with more filling i mean you have to be as curious as i am about this one big snickers okay this proves my point what about this makes it look like i mean it's not perforated it's not in different sections i want to point out this guy comes in squares right so they possess the technology to be able to break this up for sharing but they're they're expecting you to buy this and look it's just a giant snickers bar and technically you're supposed to share it but technically you can share any candy bar if you have a knife but this to me looks like there was no attempt once it's out of the package to imply that you should be sharing this i'm gonna be so sick tonight i'm so sick there's a bad deal

Channel: Food Insider

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Keywords: INSIDER, FOOD INSIDER, Food Wars, Snickers, US vs. UK, Food, Candy, Chocolate

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Length: 11min 31sec (691 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 18 2021