Product Review: Parillo Hi-Protein Pancake & Muffin Mix and Parillo Protei
As a general rule, I prefer to only discuss products that I really like and therefore endorse. I guess part of me always feels that just because I don’t like something this doesn’t mean that someone else won’t like it, right? Also, I am a good girl. I always do what my mom taught me and she taught me that good girls keep their mouths shut if they don’t have anything nice to say. LOL! From time to time though I have experiences that remind me that I also have a duty to share information concerning those products that I try and which I don’t like. Today is one of those occasions. Recently, I paid a good amount of money and bought several products that were just awful so much so that I threw out what I baked and I threw out the mixes as well. Both were products of Parillo Performance. I paid $20 for a container of the pancake & muffin mix and $35 for a container of the protein frosting mix. Both were super sweet - sickeningly sweet - they are sweetened with a mix of three sugar substitutes (why, I don’t understand) erythritol (a sugar alcohol), sucralose, and stevia. I bought the banana flavored muffin mix and attempted to make a batch of 12 mini-muffins. The mix had an odd bumpy texture to it when I added water and MCT oil as specified on the bottle. The next problem I encountered was trying to figure out when the muffins were done. The muffins didn’t brown like regular muffins would. When I finally decided (by sticking a cake tester into one) that the muffins were cooked, I set them aside to cool and turned toward making the vanilla frosting. I prepared half the recipe given on the side of the frosting mix bottle and that was enough for who know how many million muffins! The frosting also had an odd texture to it and was a bit off-white. When I finally sat down to eat a mini-muffin, the muffin had a very odd spongy texture to it that was really objectionable. The taste was absolutely awful - the muffin itself was sickeningly sweet and honestly you didn’t need any icing on the thing! The icing really didn’t taste like vanilla. All I could taste was sugar - sickening sweetness. I spit it out and threw the rest away - now this is saying something for me as I love everything sweet. Consider yourselves warned: do not buy this vile stuff!!
