Mars
Mars is a well known company around the world, and I'm pretty sure almost everybody you ask in the UK will have heard of at least five Mars Products. The Mars Headquarters remain in Virginia USA, however the products are sold world wide.
The most famous Mars product, is namely the Mars Bar, however there are many other delicious and well known confectionary items produced by Mars, such as Twix, Malteasers, Skittles and the classic Topic bar.
Recently, in April 2008, Mars inc. bought the worlds largest chewing gum company, Wm. Wrigley Junior, and now there sales are expected to go up by $27 billion, and are due to take over Cadburys Schweppes as the worlds largest confectioner.

The British branch of Mars, is named Mars Limited. Many of the products in the UK, are also around in the USA, however Mars Limited does produce some products only in the UK such as Malteasers. Mars products such as Starburst, Skittles and Twix were first introduced in the UK, but later moved in to the USA.

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The bar itself was fairly large. The main colour of the packaging was a deep brown, not very interesitng but somehow the minimalism worked. To the right handside of the packaging sat on the brown colour, was the image of peanuts dancing about the wrapper. Very delicious looking, I moved onto scanning the rest of the package. Sat on front of the deep brown background, was the word SNICKERS in large, blue, block capital letters. The blue writing was mounted on a clean white background, which was handy, because if it hadn't have been there, the writing would have been very hard too read. The white background was then bordered with a block red margain which again meant it stood out well. The wrapper had an unusal texture, almost papery, yet a definite plastic feel too it too. The edges were "spikey", as with most chocolate bars, which meant ripping it open to enjoy was easy enough to do.

After purchasing my Snickers bar, I was very excited to tuck in. However as it was raining outside I decided to wait untill I got home to enjoy my snack properly without having to fight with the rain and wind, and I would have found it incredibly hard to carry two bags, and an umberella while tucking in. So as soon as I got in, I plonked myself down on the sofa, and unpeeled the wrapper. I pulled the whole bar out at first just to take a little look at the product in question. It looked quite scrumptious. The bar was a deep brown, milk chocolatey colour. The bar was very thick with smooth milk chocolate on the sides and bottom, however the top of the bar had a kind of rippled effect to it. I was quite curious as to what the rippled effect was, perhaps it was bits of peanut layered under the milk chocolate.
As soon as I had removed the Snickers bar from the packet, I was hit with a deliciously mouth watering smell. It smelled strongly of chocolate, however it wasn't overly creamy, more of a sweet cocoa smell. Although I prefer creamy chocolate, I didn't let this put me off, and so I took a bite...

Pictures of Mars Snickers

The bar itself

I wasn't expecting great things from the nutrition information in snickers, and I was almost dreading looking at the values of the calories and fat contained inside. The back of the wrapper tells us the information in a small table. I say small table, and this is probably an under exxaggeration, it is tiny. However I managed to squint my eyes (And give myself a headache in the process ), and my nightmares did infact come true. The table told me that each Snickers bar contains a whopping 280 calories and a huge 14g of fat. The bar also contains 5g of saturated fats, and a rather worrying 4g of fibre. I say my nightmares came true, however I wasn't actually expecting anythign better from the chocolate bar. Some smaller, less tasty chocolate bars contain around the same calories and so if you look at this way, its not too bad.

Eating my Snickers at around 4pm was the best time for me. Around two hours before dinner, and this meant I had enough time to get my appetite back for tea. I wouldn't recommend eating this when your not hugnry, and just for the sake of it , as it will probably leave you feeling fairly sick, and you will without a doubt regret it afterwards. As the calories are sky high, I wouldn't recommend having this chocolate bar on a daily basis as it may eventually lead to weight gain, but enjoying something like this once in a while shouldn't do you any harm.

Aswell as regular Snickers, Mars also produces various other mars products. The Snickers bar itself comes in different varieties such as Kingsize, Snickers-Duo, Snickers Mini and Snickers Funsize. These can be found mostly in Supermarkets and in some small corner shops however not all will sell them. Snickers Kingsize/Due usually sell singley at around 80p, and bags of mini's and funsizes usually around £2.99. The funsize Snickers are usually found inside multi packs of other mini Mars products such as Starbursts and Snickers.

There are also various ice products based around Snickers, these include the Snickers Ice Cream bars and the Cone. The cone does prove quite hard to find, but I have seen it in the pound store on one occasion. The Snickers ice cream bars usually come in multipacks in supermarkets however some ice cream shops and larger newsagents will sell them in the freezer section.
Many supermarkets now sell other confectionary items based around Snickers, such as the Snickers Flapjack, Snickers birthday cakes. Tiny snickers are also sold in the Mars favourite; 'Celebrations'.

• Sound- n/a
• Appearence- minimalist, attractive wrapper, chunky, milk chocolate brown bar
• Scent- milk chocolate, slight nutty aroma
• Texture- crunchy peanuts, soft chewy nougat, smooth milk chocolate, smooth, runny caramel
• Taste- deliciously sweet and creamy milk chocolate, sweet caramel, caramelised peanuts, delicious nougut mix between milky way and mars bar!