carob bar

4.8

A sweet snack made from carob powder that people eat like chocolate

noun
/ˈkɛrəb bɑr/

: barrita de algarrobo

When I was a child, carob bars were promoted as a substitute for chocolate.

Examples

Many people choose a carob bar instead of chocolate because it is lower in fat.
At the health store, I found a delicious carob bar made with organic ingredients.
She enjoyed a carob bar with her tea, claiming it tasted just like chocolate.

Synonyms

candy bar

vscarob bar

71 1.0

A sweet made of chocolate or sugar that you eat as a snack

focuses on a cocoa substitute product rather than varied sweet fillings

chocolate bar

vscarob bar

25 1.0

A solid sweet made from cocoa, shaped like a bar to eat as a snack

is made from a sweet pod powder used instead of cacao

Hershey bar

vscarob bar

4 1.4

A rectangular milk chocolate bar made by the Hershey company

is made from a sweet pod powder used instead of cocoa

peanut bar

vscarob bar

2.5

A sweet snack made from peanuts and syrup, shaped like a bar

is based on pod powder used as a chocolate substitute not on nuts

Surface Forms

carob bar singular

carob bars plural

Morphology

carob + bar

The meaning 'a bar-shaped confection made with carob' is directly and compositionally derived from 'carob' (the ingredient) + 'bar' (a solid confection). This follows a common compound pattern (e.g. 'chocolate bar') and is readily inferable by a B1 learner who knows both constituents.

Etymology

Carob bar comes from a simple image: a sweet bar made from carob, the brown pod of a tree that people often used instead of chocolate. So today carob bar means 'a bar-shaped sweet made with carob'.