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ESN Designer Bar

A juicy bar with a subtle vanilla note and a tropical finish—pleasantly sweet without being overpowering. Top macros for a bar.

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All 25 flavors ranked

Sorted by Suppligator score; ties are decided by the community rating.

  1. Rank 1

    Dark Chocolate Salted Almond

    Suppligator score 9.75 out of 10

    An intense, pleasantly sweet-and-bitter balanced, crisp yet melt-in-your-mouth shell made of full-bodied dark chocolate; It contains small, crunchy, salted, and toasted almond pieces that …

  2. Rank 1

    Dark Cookie

    Suppligator score 9.75 out of 10

    Crispy yet melt-in-your-mouth, full-flavored milk chocolate, with dark, crunchy cookie pieces throughout, encased in a outer shell.; Underneath is a soft, slightly chewy texture …

  3. Rank 1

    White Chocolate Pistachio

    Suppligator score 9.75 out of 10

    Outer shell of slightly crisp, mild and delicately sweet white chocolate, studded with small crunchy salted pistachio pieces that give the chocolate a gently …

  4. Rank 4

    Maple Walnut

    Suppligator score 9.50 out of 10

    An outer shell made of rich milk chocolate, studded with many small pieces of walnut that appear to be gently roasted; The mixture is …

  5. Rank 5

    Dark Cookie White Choc

    Suppligator score 9.50 out of 10

    Melt-in-the-mouth, moderately crisp, rather sweet white chocolate with small crunchy dark, slightly bittersweet biscuit pieces as the outer shell.; The largest yet mildest part …

  6. Rank 5

    Hazelnut Nougat

    Suppligator score 9.50 out of 10

    A combination of a melt-in-your-mouth, crunchy milk chocolate coating studded with small, crunchy roasted hazelnut pieces.; The flavor focuses on a soft, slightly fudgy, …

  7. Rank 5

    Lebkuchen

    Suppligator score 9.50 out of 10

    Pleasantly sweet-bitter balanced, slightly crisp, melt-in-the-mouth shell of full-bodied dark-cocoa dark chocolate.; Set within it are small crunchy roasted almond pieces that bring a …

  8. Rank 5

    Peanut Butter Pretzel

    Suppligator score 9.50 out of 10

    Crisp, full-bodied milk chocolate with many small, slightly crunchy salted-pretzel pieces embedded in it as the outer shell.; The mass beneath is almost melt-in-the-mouth …

  9. Rank 5

    Speculoos

    Suppligator score 9.50 out of 10

    A rich milk chocolate shell enclosing pieces of caramel cookie, reminiscent of well-known Biscoff-style coffee cookies; The mixture has a soft texture and offers …

  10. Rank 5

    Spekulatius

    Suppligator score 9.50 out of 10

    Shell of full-bodied milk chocolate with cinnamon-spiced biscuit pieces embedded in it, reminiscent of classic Speculoos.; The mass is soft, almost melting on the …

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  1. Rank 11

    Cinnamon Cereal

    Suppligator score 9.25 out of 10

    Crisp, melt-in-the-mouth shell of creamy white chocolate with small cinnamon-cereal pieces as a first, slightly sweet flavour note.; The main component is a doughy, …

  2. Rank 11

    Dark Chocolate Mocha

    Suppligator score 9.25 out of 10

    Dark, full-bodied, aromatic, crisp chocolate as an outer shell, studded with plenty of crunchy—not melt-in-your-mouth—cacao nibs; The protein mass is soft, requires a bit …

  3. Rank 11

    Strawberry White Chocolate

    Suppligator score 9.25 out of 10

    Crisp white-chocolate coating studded with many small freeze-dried, slightly sweet-tart strawberry fruit pieces.; The mass beneath tastes pleasantly milky / subtly creamy-yoghurty and is …

  4. Rank 11

    Tropical Vanilla

    Suppligator score 9.25 out of 10

  5. Rank 11

    White Chocolate Raspberry

    Suppligator score 9.25 out of 10

    White chocolate with crunchy pink biscuit pieces; Milky-creamy, soft mass; Fruity raspberry-cream core with a sweet-tart profile

  6. Rank 16

    Almond Coconut

    Suppligator score 9.00 out of 10

    A soft, moderately firm-to-the-bite mass with a milky, slightly vanilla coconut flavour and a sweet-nutty almond note makes up the largest part.; Contains a …

  7. Rank 16

    Golden Caramel

    Suppligator score 9.00 out of 10

    Outer shell of fairly thick, crisp yet melt-in-the-mouth light caramel chocolate, run through with slightly crunchy, subtly vanilla-flavoured biscuit pieces.; The largest but also …

  8. Rank 16

    Strawberry Yoghurt

    Suppligator score 9.00 out of 10

    Slightly crisp, sweet milk-chocolate coating studded with many (freeze-dried), rather slightly tart strawberry fruit pieces as an inviting first impression.; The largest yet rather …

  9. Rank 19

    Caramel Latte

    Suppligator score 8.50 out of 10

    An outer shell made of slightly sweet milk chocolate, studded with a few small cookie pieces with a hint of cinnamon and caramel; The …

  10. Rank 19

    Dark Chocolate Raspberry

    Suppligator score 8.50 out of 10

    Intense dark chocolate with cocoa nibs; Fudgy mass with a brownie character; Fruit core rather weak and slightly artificial

  11. Rank 19

    Fudge Brownie

    Suppligator score 8.50 out of 10

    An outer shell made of slightly crisp, somewhat sweet milk chocolate with small, crunchy cocoa nibs.; A soft, slightly chewy dough with a moderate …

  12. Rank 19

    Lemon Cheesecake

    Suppligator score 8.50 out of 10

    Moderately crisp white-chocolate coating studded with light, sweet-buttery biscuit pieces.; The mass beneath is pleasantly milky, slightly creamy and with an almost imperceptible yoghurty …

  13. Rank 23

    Cookie Dough

    Suppligator score 8.25 out of 10

    Outer shell of slightly crisp, melt-in-the-mouth milk chocolate, studded with many crunchy, rather bitter-aromatic cocoa biscuit pieces.; The largest and very mild part is …

  14. Rank 24

    Hazelnut Caramel

    Suppligator score 8.00 out of 10

    Outer shell of slightly crisp, rather thin but aromatically tasty milk chocolate, studded with many small roasted hazelnut pieces.; The rather fudgy-soft protein mass …

  15. Rank 24

    Peanut Caramel

    Suppligator score 8.00 out of 10

    Slightly crisp, finely melting milk-chocolate coating with a few peanut pieces.; Inside, a soft, slightly doughy mass with a gentle peanut aroma meets an …

The ESN Designer Bar is a 45-gram protein bar with up to 15 grams of protein and no added sugar—and in our taste test, it earned a Suppligator score of 9.75 out of 10, making it our highest-rated protein bar to date.

What sets the Designer Bar apart

ESN builds the bar around a soft cream center wrapped in a protein dough and finished with a chocolate coating and a crunchy topping. The protein comes from milk protein (which has a high biological value, so the bar is not vegan), while the sweetness comes from maltitol and sucralose instead of added sugar—which keeps each 45 g bar at roughly 191 kcal while still delivering up to 15 g of protein.

Flavors we’ve tasted

We rate each flavor individually rather than scoring the product as a whole. Topping our tasting list are White Chocolate Pistachio, Dark Chocolate Salted Almond, and Dark Cookie (all 9.75), with Peanut Butter Pretzel, Spekulatius, and Lebkuchen close behind. Select a flavor above to view its detailed tasting notes and the community rating.

Nutrition at a Glance

Per 100 g, the Designer Bar provides 424 kcal, 32 g protein, 23 g fat (11 g saturated fat), 33 g carbohydrates (4.4 g sugars, 28 g polyols), 2.9 g fiber, and 0.44 g salt. The Nutrition tab shows the full breakdown per serving for a 45 g bar.

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Nutrition per 100 g per serving (60 g)
Energy 1,510 kJ / 360 kcal 906 kJ / 216 kcal
Fat 15 g 9 g
of which saturates 9 g 5.4 g
Carbohydrate 30 g 18 g
of which sugars 2.5 g 1.5 g
Fiber 8 g 4.8 g
Protein 33 g 19.8 g
Salt 0.6 g 0.4 g

Values may vary slightly by flavor.

Click a flavor for our detailed Suppligator review.

– Outer shell of slightly crisp, mild and delicately sweet white chocolate, studded with small crunchy salted pistachio pieces that give the chocolate a gently nutty note and a tasty contrast.
– The largest part is a soft, fudgy mass with a buttery, gently bittersweet pistachio aroma that creates a harmonious fusion of shell and core and their textures.
– The intense, liquid-creamy core of moderately sweet, authentic pistachio cream is the aromatic highlight and delivers a praline-like moment of indulgence.
– In terms of overall sweetness it is as balanced as the Dark Cookie bar; despite the white chocolate it is noticeably less sweet than the Cinnamon Cereal bar.
– Tastes like a softer, doughier version of the Feine Welt pistachio cream combined with a touch of white chocolate.
– All in all an absolutely harmonious composition and a delicious taste experience with addictive potential.

Suppligator 9.75 / 10 Suppligator Rating – What's the community saying?

– An intense, pleasantly sweet-and-bitter balanced, crisp yet melt-in-your-mouth shell made of full-bodied dark chocolate
– It contains small, crunchy, salted, and toasted almond pieces that add a subtle nutty, slightly salty-toasty flavor without being too overpowering
– The soft, very fudgy doughy mixture is the mildest component, with subtle notes of dark cocoa and a slightly bitter, chocolatey, cookie-like flavor.
– A soft, creamy center made of rich, sweet-and-bitter cocoa cream at times dominates almost entirely, and then lingers deliciously on the tongue, primarily with the flavor of dark chocolate
– The flavor is reminiscent of a combination of "Lindt Les Grandes Feinherb Salted Almond" chocolate and "DM Organic Dark Chocolate Spread."
– All in all, a very delicious combination—less sweet than previous Designer Bars—of rich, full-bodied dark chocolate, mild to very intense cocoa flavors, and subtly salty notes that are consistently present

Suppligator 9.75 / 10 Suppligator Rating – What's the community saying?

– Crispy yet melt-in-your-mouth, full-flavored milk chocolate, with dark, crunchy cookie pieces throughout, encased in a outer shell.
– Underneath is a soft, slightly chewy texture with a moderately dark chocolate-cookie flavor and a fudgy center.
– The core offers an intense, sweet with a hint of bitterness, authentic flavor reminiscent of liquid dark cookies.
– All in all, a very successful, aromatic blend that is strongly reminiscent of Milka Oreo chocolate, though more intense, since it does not contain milk cream.
– An absolute standout bar with absolutely no "protein" connotations.

Suppligator 9.75 / 10 Suppligator Rating – What's the community saying?

– Crisp, full-bodied milk chocolate with many small, slightly crunchy salted-pretzel pieces embedded in it as the outer shell.
– The mass beneath is almost melt-in-the-mouth soft and fudgy, but not chewy, with a tasty, gently milky-vanilla-peanut aroma, without being dull, bitter or overly sweet – a perfect transition to the intense core.
– In the core, buttery peanut meets tender, sweet-warm caramel, joined by a hint of salty touch, picking up the sweet-and-salty feel of shell and mass once again.
– Overall an absolutely coherent, harmoniously sweet-salty, buttery and full-bodied taste experience with a contrast-rich, balanced play of nuances.
– The components recall Chocolove Filled Salted Peanut Butter with an extra caramel touch and a slightly different distribution of aromas.
– Highly recommended for lovers of special creations with various sweet-salty accents in confectionery style.

Suppligator 9.5 / 10 Suppligator Rating – What's the community saying?

– Shell of full-bodied milk chocolate with cinnamon-spiced biscuit pieces embedded in it, reminiscent of classic Speculoos.
– The mass is soft, almost melting on the tongue, and brings buttery-doughy, gently caramel-light-chocolatey and minimally cinnamon-wintry aromatised notes.
– The core holds an intense, nougat-like cinnamon cream and blends aromatically perfectly with the spiced part of the shell and the gentle dough notes of the mass.
– The aftertaste leaves a flavour reminiscent of Speculoos biscuit dough, wrapped in a gently Christmassy flair.

Suppligator 9.5 / 10 Suppligator Rating – What's the community saying?

– Pleasantly sweet-bitter balanced, slightly crisp, melt-in-the-mouth shell of full-bodied dark-cocoa dark chocolate.
– Set within it are small crunchy roasted almond pieces that bring a gently nutty, caramel-roasted aroma but rather fade into the background overall.
– The soft, doughy mass is the largest yet mildest part, with gentle cocoa and nut notes.
– A liquid core of intensely sweet, slightly artificial-tasting apricot cream dominates at times and, towards the end, blends with the aroma of the dark chocolate.

Suppligator 9.5 / 10 Suppligator Rating – What's the community saying?

– Melt-in-the-mouth, moderately crisp, rather sweet white chocolate with small crunchy dark, slightly bittersweet biscuit pieces as the outer shell.
– The largest yet mildest part is a dark-cocoa, soft and slightly fudgy protein mass that also holds gentle dark-biscuit notes.
– Intense, sweet vanilla combined with a milk-cream touch meet in the aromatic, creamy soft core and round off the taste experience.

Suppligator 9.5 / 10 Suppligator Rating – What's the community saying?

– A combination of a melt-in-your-mouth, crunchy milk chocolate coating studded with small, crunchy roasted hazelnut pieces.
– The flavor focuses on a soft, slightly fudgy, cake-like texture and a creamy, liquid center.
– The outer layer has a mild cocoa-nutty flavor, while the center—with its sweet aroma reminiscent of "nut nougat cream"—is the absolute highlight.

Suppligator 9.5 / 10 Suppligator Rating – What's the community saying?

– A rich milk chocolate shell enclosing pieces of caramel cookie, reminiscent of well-known Biscoff-style coffee cookies
– The mixture has a soft texture and offers buttery, doughy notes with subtle hints of caramel and a hint of vanilla, though these flavors generally remain in the background
– The center contains a rich caramel cookie cream with a very subtle hint of cinnamon and a toasty note, which harmonizes perfectly with the flavors of the shell and the filling.
– Compared to the 2025 Spekulatius Bar, this one features Speculoos (caramel cookies) instead of Spekulatius—both in the cookie selection and the filling; it’s significantly less cinnamon-y, but a bit more doughy, with a clearer caramel focus.
– All in all, a very successful sweet-treat-style bar that lives up to its name—highly recommended for lovers of caramel and cookie (dough).

Suppligator 9.5 / 10 Suppligator Rating – What's the community saying?

– An outer shell made of rich milk chocolate, studded with many small pieces of walnut that appear to be gently roasted
– The mixture is soft, almost melting in the mouth, and has a mild but very pleasant vanilla-like, slightly doughy flavor.
– In its richly contrasting, intense, and smooth core, a sweet, slightly tart, malty maple syrup note unfolds with a subtle, faint hint of brown sugar.
– Compared to the flavor of Zerup’s More Barista of the same name, this one has a slightly lower walnut content; it has a slightly woody, tart undertone and a milder, honey-like note, yet it’s still rather sweet and “darker.”
– All in all, a creation that lives up to its name—a very successful blend with harmoniously shifting notes of sweetness, maltiness, mildness, tartness, delicacy, and nuttiness
– Recommended for fans of the combination of maple syrup, walnuts, and chocolate in this fall-themed “Healthy Snack” version

Suppligator 9.5 / 10 Suppligator Rating – What's the community saying?

– Crisp white-chocolate coating studded with many small freeze-dried, slightly sweet-tart strawberry fruit pieces.
– The mass beneath tastes pleasantly milky / subtly creamy-yoghurty and is moderately firm to the bite.
– The intense core, contrasting with shell and mass, picks up the fruity part of the shell again with a delicately pink, sweet strawberry cream.

Suppligator 9.25 / 10 Suppligator Rating – What's the community saying?

– Crisp, melt-in-the-mouth shell of creamy white chocolate with small cinnamon-cereal pieces as a first, slightly sweet flavour note.
– The main component is a doughy, fudgy mass with buttery, cinnamon-spiced and vanilla aromas reminiscent of cinnamon stars.
– The liquid core, as the most intense component, offers a sweet flavour explosion with likewise cinnamon notes and a hint of light nougat cream that linger deliciously on the tongue.

Suppligator 9.25 / 10 Suppligator Rating – What's the community saying?

– White chocolate with crunchy pink biscuit pieces
– Milky-creamy, soft mass
– Fruity raspberry-cream core with a sweet-tart profile

Suppligator 9.25 / 10 Suppligator Rating – What's the community saying?

– Dark, full-bodied, aromatic, crisp chocolate as an outer shell, studded with plenty of crunchy—not melt-in-your-mouth—cacao nibs
– The protein mass is soft, requires a bit of chewing without being chewy, and melts in the mouth after a short time, revealing gentle, mild notes of cocoa and a hint of coffee.
– A distinctly noticeable, slightly tart coffee note picks up on that aroma once again in the creamy center and intensifies it
– All the flavors—ranging from dark chocolate to mild to tart, with notes of cocoa and coffee—blend together almost perfectly.
– All in all, a very well-done, caffeinated Barista Bar with a "Genussmoment" vibe

Suppligator 9.25 / 10 Suppligator Rating – What's the community saying?
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ESN Designer Bar – Tropical Vanilla, cut open
Suppligator 9.25 / 10 Suppligator Rating – What's the community saying?

– Slightly crisp, sweet milk-chocolate coating studded with many (freeze-dried), rather slightly tart strawberry fruit pieces as an inviting first impression.
– The largest yet rather mild-milky part is the familiar fudgy mass, which carries yoghurty, minimally creamy notes.

Suppligator 9 / 10 Suppligator Rating – What's the community saying?

– Outer shell of fairly thick, crisp yet melt-in-the-mouth light caramel chocolate, run through with slightly crunchy, subtly vanilla-flavoured biscuit pieces.
– The largest but also mildest part is a gently creamy, caramel-milky protein mass of soft, slightly fudgy consistency.
– The flavour highlight is the inner, creamy-liquid core with an intense, sweet caramel note.

Suppligator 9 / 10 Suppligator Rating – What's the community saying?

– A soft, moderately firm-to-the-bite mass with a milky, slightly vanilla coconut flavour and a sweet-nutty almond note makes up the largest part.
– Contains a core of smooth, sweet cream with an intense almond and coconut flavour.
– Coated in a white, soft-melting chocolate layer with small, barely tasteable almond pieces as a crunchy counterpart.

Suppligator 9 / 10 Suppligator Rating – What's the community saying?

– Moderately crisp white-chocolate coating studded with light, sweet-buttery biscuit pieces.
– The mass beneath is pleasantly milky, slightly creamy and with an almost imperceptible yoghurty nuance, while having a soft consistency.
– The liquid, slightly viscous core provides intense contrast with a yellowish, slightly translucent shimmering lemon cream.

Suppligator 8.5 / 10 Suppligator Rating – What's the community saying?

– An outer shell made of slightly crisp, somewhat sweet milk chocolate with small, crunchy cocoa nibs.
– A soft, slightly chewy dough with a moderate dark cocoa flavor as its main component.
– An almost liquid, creamy center that stands out as an aromatic highlight with a sweet "chocolate spread" flavor.

Suppligator 8.5 / 10 Suppligator Rating – What's the community saying?

– Intense dark chocolate with cocoa nibs
– Fudgy mass with a brownie character
– Fruit core rather weak and slightly artificial

Suppligator 8.5 / 10 Suppligator Rating – What's the community saying?

– An outer shell made of slightly sweet milk chocolate, studded with a few small cookie pieces with a hint of cinnamon and caramel
– The inner layer is soft with a slight chewiness; it melts in your mouth after a short time and, with its gentle, doughy, caramel-like flavor and very subtle hint of coffee, creates a perfect blend between the coating and the center.
– The latter is creamy and slightly viscous, and rounds out the flavor experience with a subtly creamy, vanilla-like coffee note that also has a slight caramel-like quality; this note does not stand out excessively in terms of intensity, but rather blends harmoniously with the other flavors.
– A successful light counterpart to the “Dark Chocolate Mocha Barista Bar,” with a noticeably milder coffee flavor, slightly fewer nuances, and a minimally dry, bitter aftertaste on the tongue
– Recommended for anyone looking for a lighter, caffeinated snack option

Suppligator 8.5 / 10 Suppligator Rating – What's the community saying?

– Outer shell of slightly crisp, melt-in-the-mouth milk chocolate, studded with many crunchy, rather bitter-aromatic cocoa biscuit pieces.
– The largest and very mild part is a doughy protein mass with a gently buttery touch and subtle vanilla/caramel nuances.
– The inner core holds an intense, sweet-sugary, velvety vanilla cream as the flavour highlight.

Suppligator 8.25 / 10 Suppligator Rating – What's the community saying?

– Outer shell of slightly crisp, rather thin but aromatically tasty milk chocolate, studded with many small roasted hazelnut pieces.
– The rather fudgy-soft protein mass comes across as quite mild-milky, subtly sweet, but overall not very aromatic.
– The most intense part is the inner core of very sweet, almost liquid caramel paste with, unfortunately, a somewhat artificial aftertaste.

Suppligator 8 / 10 Suppligator Rating – What's the community saying?

– Slightly crisp, finely melting milk-chocolate coating with a few peanut pieces.
– Inside, a soft, slightly doughy mass with a gentle peanut aroma meets an intense, sweet caramel cream in the core.
– In the aftertaste, unfortunately, a slightly artificial sweetness lingers, with the caramel flavour mainly dominating.

Suppligator 8 / 10 Suppligator Rating – What's the community saying?
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