Choose a speculoos-flavoured bar if you want a clearly defined portion for your afternoon snack, but check whether you’re buying a single bar or a multipack. If you’re after classic speculoos biscuits or chocolate, you could consider biscuits or a chocolate bar, but you’ll need to decide how much to have yourself. Compare the nutrition information per 100 g, then consider how much you’ll actually eat. If you have allergies, always check the current label.
Whether you’re at work, out and about or at home, you may want to grab a single snack without having to divide up a large pack. Jumbo lists the Holie’s Crunchy Bar Almond Speculoos as six 20 g bars. It’s a multipack, not a single bar sold loose.
If sugars, saturated fat, fibre or protein influence your choice, the nutrition table is more useful than the front of the pack. The Netherlands Nutrition Centre advises comparing similar products per 100 g.
A crunchy biscuit, a cereal bar and a chocolate bar are different kinds of snack. Lotus Biscoff offers chocolate biscuits in a multipack, among other products, while Jumbo also lists a 180 g Lotus Biscoff milk chocolate bar.
First decide whether you want a bar, a biscuit or a piece of chocolate, and how much you want to eat at once. Then check the pack size and, for similar products, compare the nutrition information.
| What to consider | What to check | Who it matters to |
|---|---|---|
| Clearly defined portion | Number of pieces, weight per piece and whether they’re individually wrapped. | If I want to take one snack with me, I don’t want to divide up a large bar or a pack of biscuits myself. Around 36% of consumers give portion size the highest priority. |
| Nutrition information | Compare similar products per 100 g, then look at the portion you’ve chosen. | If you’re mainly watching sugars, saturated fat, fibre or protein, you’ll want to know what your portion contains. This is the top priority for around 29% of consumers. |
| Flavour and product format | Check whether it’s a cereal bar, speculoos biscuit or chocolate bar, and which ingredients give it its flavour. | I’d rather choose a crunchy speculoos flavour or chocolate, even if I have to portion it myself. This flavour preference matters most to around 21% of consumers. |
| Packaging and where you shop | Check the current pack size and the range at the shop you’re buying from. | If I want to pick up my snack at my usual shop, the pack on offer needs to suit my plans. Around 14% of consumers put this practical consideration first. |
Jumbo lists the Holie’s Crunchy Bar Almond Speculoos as six 20 g bars. Lotus Biscoff sells chocolate biscuits in packs of 7 × 3 and a 180 g milk chocolate bar. The number of portions in a pack doesn’t tell you whether a single bar is sold separately.
Check the number of pieces, the weight per piece and whether individual wrappers are important to you.
Highlighting one nutrient doesn’t give you the full picture of what’s in a product. The Netherlands Nutrition Centre recommends checking the ingredients and nutrition table too.
Compare similar products per 100 g, then check the nutrition information for the amount you plan to eat.
The Holie’s Crunchy Bar reviewed here contains spelt, wheat and almonds, among other ingredients. The ingredients in a cereal bar, biscuit and chocolate bar aren’t interchangeable, and online product information can change.
Check the ingredients list and allergen information on the packaging every time you buy.
Jumbo lists the Holie’s Crunchy Bar Almond Speculoos as a cereal bar in a pack of six 20 g bars.
Lotus Biscoff offers chocolate-covered speculoos biscuits, among other products; Jumbo also lists a 180 g milk chocolate bar filled with speculoos.
Albert Heijn lists almond speculoos bars and filled speculoos biscuits in packs of two.
Jumbo lists Bakkers Speculaas in a 600 g pack.
These two Holie’s Chewy Bars are for anyone looking for an almond speculoos-flavoured bar rather than a classic speculoos biscuit. The packs differ considerably in the number of bars, so bear this in mind if you mainly want to take one snack with you.
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For anyone looking for a speculoos-flavoured bar as an afternoon snack. This is a cereal bar, not a classic speculoos biscuit.
The pack contains three 35 g bars. Check the wrappers if you want to take each bar with you individually, and read the current label if you have allergies.
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For anyone looking for speculoos-flavoured bars for several snack breaks, rather than a single bar to eat straight away.
The bundle contains eleven packs of three bars. Check the weight per bar and the wrappers if you need a portion you can take with you individually; read the current label if you have allergies.
No. The name doesn’t tell you how much sugar, saturated fat, fibre or protein the bar contains. Read the nutrition table and consider how much you actually plan to eat.
First decide which product format and portion you’re looking for: these snacks aren’t interchangeable. Then compare similar products per 100 g, as the Netherlands Nutrition Centre recommends, and check the weight of your chosen portion.
Check the allergen information on the packaging of the exact variety you’re buying. The Holie’s Crunchy Bar reviewed here contains spelt, wheat and almonds, among other ingredients; the Lotus Biscoff milk chocolate bar listed by Jumbo contains milk, soya and wheat. Don’t assume these ingredients lists apply to other varieties without checking.
