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MuleBar ReFuel
Mule Bar’s unique selling point is the use of entirely natural and, where possible, Fair Trade-sourced ingredients

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Reviewed: 3 February 2010 by David Arthur

Following its range of energy bars released some years ago, Mule Bar followed up with the launch last year of two recovery bars, which go by the name of ReFuel.

The crucial thing for a recovery product to be successful is to be tasty and easily digestible. Oh, it needs to offer the ...  Continue reading

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What Team did you race for last year Dave>

Posted: 17/02/2010 19:57

Yes, and???

Posted: 18/02/2010 10:47

my point is how can the review be unbiased.

Posted: 21/02/2010 19:34

do you think it's biased?

Posted: 21/02/2010 21:54

Can you eat them whilst bombing round Crystal Palace?

Posted: 21/02/2010 21:59

Well, Rich; do you think the report is biased? I don't or it would not have been published.

Posted: 22/02/2010 12:25

Rich Land wrote (see)
my point is how can the review be unbiased.

Errr... did you read the right article?  I can't see any bias in DA' s review at all, and I've now read it several times as a result of your comments, Rich.

Posted: 22/02/2010 14:00

My point is that DA rode for the team last year. It would be a bit like asking a Pro how is your bike, do you like it.

RH, I'll slope off and read another site. The review would have more substance having been written by someone who has not had recent connections with the product. But as Editor if your happy that's great as you are responsible for the overall content.

Posted: 24/02/2010 19:39

I've not read the article, Rich, but you do have a point.

Posted: 24/02/2010 22:05

As nice as it is being compared to a pro, they usually get paid to ride for teams, and thus are reasonably expected to talk favourably about the products they ride. I was never paid, there was no contract, it was purely an amateur outfit (as any look at the results will prove). And if it makes any difference, I no longer ride for Team Mule Bar. I haven't since the beginning of the year. This review was written just 20 days ago...

Posted: 24/02/2010 23:23

And Chipster, have a read of the article, then see if you still think Rich has a point...

Posted: 24/02/2010 23:24

I've read it now.

Posted: 24/02/2010 23:50

Rich Land wrote (see)

My point is that DA rode for the team last year. It would be a bit like asking a Pro how is your bike, do you like it.

RH, I'll slope off and read another site. The review would have more substance having been written by someone who has not had recent connections with the product. But as Editor if your happy that's great as you are responsible for the overall content.


Fine.

You have produced nothing to back up your insinuation that DA wrote a biased review other than the blanket assertion that he must have been biased when he wrote it. Your complaint would carry more substance if you could back it up with evidence.

The substance of the review is that the product in question tastes nice and is quite expensive. How might it have more, given that we reviewers must accept as accurate the nutritional information given?

Posted: 25/02/2010 09:11

If DA scoffed these for a whole season then he is more likely to give an accurate review than if he only had tried a one off sample.

Would the same argument ,(not from me I must add) , apply to any products Richard or DA write about, particularly if Magicalia are paid to test and write about the product? The point I am making is that if Rich's point is valid then some may point the finger and say they will be biased in their reviews. Well I know what I mean!

I sense a bit of 'history' somewhere.......??

Posted: 25/02/2010 09:28

Thing is, Bally, we aren't paid by any outside supplier to test stuff. Anything sent in for testing gets tested in as objective a manner as we can contrive. Naturally we have favourite items in any category but in my case at least that is because, having tried them, I like them and, if I give a favourable write-up, it is because the product has favourably impressed me.

"History"? None that I am aware of. Rich L has written stuff for RCUK himself in the past

Posted: 25/02/2010 18:17

You have to admit Richard it is the way people perceive the type of industry you operate in you sell advertising to people who would like you to review stuff favourably. You need them as much as they need you not saying its right or wrong its the way of the world and I get where Rich is coming from but thats life and as much as you deny any bias Rich just says what people may be thinking. Its down to people having so much information available to them through the internet and there have been plenty of films, TV programmes and other media which have shown magazine editors giving extremely favourable feedback to people who pay to advertise with them. After spending a summer eating it you may have developed a taste for it so therefore some bias. Politicians would get strung up in the tabloids if they had been given free meals from a catering company only for them to get major school contract or something. Thats where the type of game your in compared to Politicians and the like differ and like I say thats the way of the world. Like it or not your reviews however honest and genuine will always be viewed by a fair percentage of people as having been written with some bias toward your advertisers, sponsors or the like. Thats what I think Rich may have been trying to get at I may be wrong however.

Posted: 25/02/2010 19:04

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Agreeable flavours, Fairtrade ingredients
 
Some might find flavours divisive
  • Price: £1.89
  • Year: from 2010

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