They probably are. Whole food is best. But in the car, on road, or on a crazy day at office quest/one bars help me sometimes. Some of the flavors are amazing. Most of the bars out there, especially a few years back, are total carbage. These have decent macros/ingredients.
If I can find an excuse to eat an almond joy that has 21g protein, 7g of fat and 1g sugar, I'm down haha!
x2 I mean I personally only would grab one in extreme hurry or whenever i had one it it was like a cheat snack though its not really. They certainly have their place as u said in busy schedules.
When I hear about protein bars, and then read a label like this, what you have in your hand is a glorified candy bar. Not at all a valid source of nutrition, and the fiber looks to be the only non-offensive ingredient. Its loaded with sugar, cheap oils, sucralose, and multiple other gastric distress causing ingredients.
When seeking an on the go or convenient item, a protein shake would be better, real fruit and nuts, hard-boiled eggs, cans of tuna with a pop-top... there are so many better options and ways to not be lazy about your food. Bars arent real food, they are "product" with a catchy label, selling hope
Back in the day indeed a protein bar use to be a glorified candy bar but a bar like this is not really imo. I use to have Met-rx bar back in the day and they were loaded with suagr etc.
You say its loaded with sugar. I am afraid I am going to disagree with you on that one. Its only got 5g sugar, thats hardly 'loaded with sugar'. Only 210 cals overall. only 7 gram fats.25 gm total carbs out of that 12 is fibre.
Issue is I have to work with what I got given here when it comes to my Mrs.
I have roadworks with sorting my wife nutrition. I troubleshoot and do the best I can..
My wife is a vegetarian so any kind of meat is
NOT an option sadly.
I got her eating eggs and she stuck to it (Thank God!). Minnnie 'The Beast' Mouse have 2 whole eggs a day Max and she thinks she is proper badass when it comes to nutrition like Gaspari prepping for competition back in the day lol
She can not drink protein shakes in water or milk. Find it too disgusting lol No matter what flavour or brand I get. If I make her a smoothie with some fruit and put unflavoured ONLY whey iso so it does NOT taste like a protein drink then she is fine. so I make her from time to time but she do not want one daily either.
She cant not put protein in cereal or oats and mix and eat. Find it disgusting :banghead::banghead:
She has a high level job in finance as a management accountant very stressful at times and so busy. she is in board meetings and presentation from 9 am till 1 sometimes with a 20 min lunch break.
so for snacks option is ...
option 1 :- graba a Mars OR SNICKERS Bar from the vending machine
option 2 :-- eat a combat protein bar
so option 2 it is.
Her protein sources I have got for her are fat free cheese, quark cheese, high protein bagel, protein smoothie, nuts yes she loves nuts so no problem there, eggs, high protein bread and lentils and chickpeas, kidney beans etc, protein bars.
She trains with me 4 times a week. works very hard. does cardio. no problem. she is not lazy or anything. she will burst her balls in gym whatever I ask her to do. she is not fat either. she looks fine. obviously wants to improve body composition.
The problem I see is she is a normal human being who have taste buds & sweet tooth haha not one of us machines who see everything as carbs , protein , fats and eat around the clock same thing over and over and over again. no problem. Even with protein bars she has to like the taste. I bought Quest bars she thought they were disgusting so I had to finish them off lol. She ate one and goodbye. Tried some other she rarely liked any. She only liked combat crunch bars. I felt i hit a jackpot so I am more then happy for her to have a combar bar over a mars or snikers bar anytime anyday.
Many thanks for all your input. I really appreciate it.