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Speaker 1: Are you someone that loves a good protein ball or

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Speaker 1: a snack ball? Do you make your own? Maybe you

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Speaker 1: buy them from the supermarket. Now, snackballs can be a

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Speaker 1: quick and convenient source of nutrition, but we probably need

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Speaker 1: to be weary as some are far better than others.

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Speaker 1: On today's episode of The Nutrition Couch, we take a

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Speaker 1: closer look at three popular snack balls in Aussie's supermarkets. Hi,

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Speaker 1: I'm Leanne Wood and I'm Sizy Burrow and a still

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Speaker 1: of austrais leading dieticians who specialize in evidence based nutrition.

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Speaker 1: We bring you the Nutrition Couch product with you a

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Speaker 1: weekly chat on new products and old favorites that you

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Speaker 1: can find at the supermarket. So I would say, Suzie

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Speaker 1: that I'm overall not a big snackball person. I don't

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Speaker 1: find them feeling, but on a car trip or if

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Speaker 1: I'm traveling on a plane, I will absolutely load up

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Speaker 1: on them. Is your family a snackball type of family?

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Speaker 1: Do you have them on the car trips on the

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Speaker 2: I think what you said in the beginning really sums

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Speaker 2: it up for me. Their energy balls, and that's a

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Speaker 2: great way to describe them. I am not a big

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Speaker 2: fan of them. Myself, I don't love dried fruit, and

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Speaker 2: often they do have a dried fruit base, and as such,

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Speaker 2: I've never really given them to my boys, but as

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Speaker 2: a sports dietician, I did use them frequently as a

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Speaker 2: quick energy food on the go. Certainly I use them

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Speaker 2: to make my lunchboxes on Instagram look pretty because they

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Speaker 2: can be quite nice and round. But no, and definitely

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Speaker 2: online when we post recipes for them, they do really well.

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Speaker 2: But no, do I buy them. No, And I'm not

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Speaker 2: a big fan and I but I've got some clients

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Speaker 2: to like them and I as we know, there's been

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Speaker 2: an increasing number in supermarkets, which is why we thought

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Speaker 2: we would cover them today. But yeah, take what you will.

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Speaker 2: If the dieticians aren't buying them, it's probably a little

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Speaker 2: bit of a reason to take notice of starting point.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely so the first one I've got I always loved

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Speaker 1: to include a little health halo for a sushi. And

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Speaker 1: the first one is the Tasty brand, So it's available

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Speaker 1: at Woolas only, and it's the Tasty Fruit and Veggie

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Speaker 1: whole food balls with mango and carrot. So you would

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Speaker 1: take one look at the front of packaging and go great,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to grab that work it in the jolley

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Speaker 1: and the kids are set. So they're now added sugar,

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Speaker 1: they're gluten free, and they're vegan. But let's take a

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Speaker 1: closer look at the ingredient list. So the first ingredient

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Speaker 1: is apple pure concentrate at seventy seven percent, So already

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Speaker 1: we know that that's going to be a high proportion

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Speaker 1: of sugar because the concentrate has more sugar than if

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Speaker 1: it was like you munching into a whole apple. Second

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Speaker 1: ingredient in some flower seed butter. So we've got some nice,

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Speaker 1: healthy fats, followed by coconut, two percent dried carrot. For

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Speaker 1: something that's marketed as a fruit and veggie ball, I'm

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Speaker 1: very disappointed that there's only two percent dried carrot. There's

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Speaker 1: freeze dried manga a one percent and a hint of

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Speaker 1: natural flavor. So, considering these are called mango and coconut

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Speaker 1: one percent mango. If that's not a health halo, Susie,

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Speaker 1: I honestly don't know what is. Absolutely so I'm a

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Speaker 1: little disappointed. Just based on the ingredient list, these are

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Speaker 1: three dollars fifty for sixty grams, so I think there's

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Speaker 1: about six balls in there, so there's sort of you know,

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Speaker 1: fifty cents of ball or something. So they're not relatively inexpensive,

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Speaker 1: but they're not something that's too high end either. So

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Speaker 1: looking at the nutrition information panel, so we've got perse

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Speaker 1: serving five hundred kilo dules in terms of energy, one

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Speaker 1: point two grams of protein, so you right, they're not

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Speaker 1: protein balls. That absolutely energy balls. Three point nine grams

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Speaker 1: in our coconut. We have nineteen point six grams of carbohydrate,

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Speaker 1: with twelve point seven grams being sugars, one point two

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Speaker 1: grams of fiber, and very minimal sodium six milligrams. So

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Speaker 1: nutritionally they are absolutely energy balls. The bulk of the

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Speaker 1: calories is coming from carbohydrates and sugar. Yes, the sugar

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Speaker 1: it's heavily you know, it's a lot of fruit sugar.

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Speaker 1: So these are something that you would use for a

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Speaker 1: quick energy hit. These for me wouldn't be a substantial

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Speaker 1: give me more. So, pairing these with maybe something like

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Speaker 1: and the sugar might be a good option. But I

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Speaker 1: think for the majority of people, these aren't I don't know, Suzy,

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Speaker 2: Really well, first of all, I think that the numbers

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Speaker 2: are wrong because it says six serves per pack, but

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Speaker 2: that it's only sixty grams the entire bag. So I

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Speaker 2: think that they're a serve must be three balls. They

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Speaker 2: must weigh ten grams each, so because it's only sixty

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Speaker 2: gram that bag, so there'd only be two balls and

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Speaker 2: if they were thirty grams each, So that's any inaccuracy

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Speaker 2: on them, Like, oh, you're right, yeah, six servings per pack, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you're right, yeah, So I think it must be three

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Speaker 2: the ball, So that's sort of just over one hundred calories,

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Speaker 2: so you know, a country calories snack's quite light. But

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Speaker 2: I love a snack to have protein. So if you

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Speaker 2: know twelve grams of concentrated sugars, it's you know.

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Speaker 1: Some dried fruit.

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Speaker 2: For me to give that as a balanced snack, I

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Speaker 2: would have to add then protein in, So it would

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Speaker 2: more fash just thinking how I would potentially do it, Like,

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Speaker 2: it's a bit tricky to balance out as a snack,

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Speaker 2: isn't it.

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Speaker 1: I do it with a boiled egg maybe, but.

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Speaker 2: It's a bit odd. Two if you light round stuff,

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Speaker 2: oval shapes, Yeah, that's how I would do it. If

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Speaker 2: you love them. I would use two or three in

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Speaker 2: a serve in a mixed lunchbox. But you would as

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Speaker 2: a snack for morning or afternoon tea, you'd have to

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Speaker 2: add the protein back in, which, yeah, your best option

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Speaker 2: would be a boiled egg.

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Speaker 1: You're right, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: They're just not going to tie you over. There's no

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Speaker 2: substance there. I don't know if they taste good, but

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Speaker 2: it is misleading because they have got no veggies.

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Speaker 1: In them, and even the mango like there's one percent

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Speaker 1: mango like. It's mostly apple pure. Their market is mango

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Speaker 1: and coconut balls. It's seventy seven percent apple and one

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Speaker 1: wouldn't buy it on principle because they're misleading their consumers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm with you all the way. I think

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Speaker 2: but then you're teaming it with coconut. So yeah, I'm

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Speaker 2: with you one hundred percent. It wouldn't be my go to,

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Speaker 2: And I think they need to fix the label. So tasty.

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Speaker 2: If anyone's listening, your labeling's wrong.

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Speaker 1: All right. So the second product I have chosen is

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Speaker 1: more of what I would term a protein ball, So

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Speaker 1: it is the balance peanut energy protein ball. So this

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Speaker 1: one's gluten free, which is great for all of our

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Speaker 1: celiacs and vegan as well. No it's not. It's got

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Speaker 1: way protein and it's not vegan apologies, it does contain dairy.

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Speaker 2: They do have vegan ones, so bounce, I've got a

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Speaker 2: range of vegan balls, which is good to know.

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Speaker 1: So top ingredient is peanuts twenty nine percent, followed by

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Speaker 1: brown rice, starch, whey protein blend which adds to the

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Speaker 1: I imagine as a bit of a sweetener. It's got

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Speaker 1: sesame seeds, water, tapiocre starch, natural flavors, sea salt, some

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Speaker 1: mineral salt being calcium carbonate, and some sunflower Ethosin contains

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Speaker 1: sesame seds, peanuts and milk as our allergens, and his

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Speaker 1: eggs and made from eleven percent Austraian ingredients, so definitely

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Speaker 1: not a ossie home grown ingredient. Lists that look at

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Speaker 1: the serving size, it's forty nine gram, so one ball

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Speaker 1: in one packet is one serve. They are two dollars

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Speaker 1: at coals in three point fifty at wor worse at

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Speaker 1: trying to get these on sale if I were to

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Speaker 1: buy them, so per serve. Energy wise, they are eight

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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty kilodules, so what's that Roughly over two

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Speaker 1: hundred calories, so quite a good energy you know packs

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Speaker 1: of punch in terms of energy, So a good well

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Speaker 1: quite a high energy snack. Fourteen point three grams of protein,

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Speaker 1: which I think is wonderful in a snack. Eight point

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Speaker 1: eight grams are fat, with only one point five of

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Speaker 1: that being saturated, so a good fat profile. There seventeen

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Speaker 1: grams of carbohydrate, twelve point five coming from the sugars.

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Speaker 1: That's weird. The dietary fibers is one hundred and forty

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Speaker 1: four milligrams, so that's obviously incorrect.

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Speaker 2: It's one point five. I've just looked it up online.

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Speaker 2: It's one point five grams of dietary fiber. It's just

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Speaker 2: a misprint, i'd say, on the Willies or coal site.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so one point five grams of five Yeah,

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Speaker 1: seven billigrams of sodium, so not you know, nothing, not insignificant,

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Speaker 1: but still, you know, quite small in the grand scheme

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Speaker 1: carbohydrate and there's seventeen grams of carbohydrate. I think it's

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Speaker 1: a quick and easy thing. I'd probably i'd recommended this

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Speaker 1: need just a little quick snack in their handbag to

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Speaker 1: tie them over between meals. But it's not what I

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Speaker 1: I would recommend, but I don't mind it. I think

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Speaker 1: with maybe some veggie sticks to add a bit of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I like them too.

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Speaker 1: I like Bounce.

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Speaker 2: They do some great products, but you do have to

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Speaker 2: really take a close look at the labels. There's a

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Speaker 2: great difference in protein levels. It is a quite small product.

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Speaker 2: When you open it at two hundred and twenty cow,

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Speaker 2: they're only quite little, like I want to say, not

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Speaker 2: a massive you know what I mean. For the calorie density.

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Speaker 1: It's not the size of a golf ball, probably smaller.

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Speaker 2: I do use them and quite like them one night

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Speaker 2: because they're gluten free, and so when you're looking for

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Speaker 2: gluten free products that can be really useful, and that

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Speaker 2: load of protein at fourteen grams is really strong, I

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Speaker 2: should say that you're not going to get a peanut

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Speaker 2: based product with a lot of Australian peanuts. We just

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Speaker 2: don't grow that many peanuts here in Australia, so that's

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Speaker 2: not unexpected, you know. I use them in the air,

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Speaker 1: They're the Uncle Toby's Peanut and Strawberry oat balls. They

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