Note: Facts and ingredients listed are based on Cookie Dough flavour. Other flavors' may vary.

About two years ago, Biotest ventured into the food-bar business with peanut butter and lemon-flavored Grow! protein bars.

The Grow! bar was full of extremely high quality protein — protein that wasn't supplied largely by collagen. The Grow! bar was also unique in that it didn't contain a whole lot of glycerin. Furthermore, the bar didn't practice any labeling hijinks; it didn't try to convince people that glycerin wasn't really a carb. On a scale of 1 to 10, its flavor rated about a 7.

While the Grow! bar took advantage of every high-tech food-manufacturing tool in existence, we couldn't compete with the Detour and U-Turn bars that were introduced about the same time. While the latter two bars used low-quality proteins and excessive amounts of sugars and other undesirable ingredients, they tasted like Snickers bars.

What the public really wanted was simply a candy bar in the guise of a protein, or "health" bar.

What a disaster. So we retreated to lick our wounds.

We've spent the last two years researching, innovating, revising and tinkering with a new bar. The goal was to build a bar that was high-tech and exceptionally delicious.

Biotest's new high quality bar is now here. The Metabolic Drive Bar comes in two delicious flavours, Cookie Dough and Rocky Road.