Speaker 1: Are you a fan of snack bars for a quick
Speaker 1: energy hit on the go. In recent years, there has
Speaker 1: been a growing number of nut based snack bars available,
Speaker 1: which can be a cost effective and convenient way to
Speaker 1: get your daily serve of nuts. But are all nutbars
Speaker 1: healthy or are they just a source of added sugar.
Speaker 1: On today's episode of The Nutrition Couch Product Review, we
Speaker 1: take a closer look at some of the popular nutbars
Speaker 1: found in supermarkets and share our thoughts on the best
Speaker 1: options nutritionally. Hi, I'm Susie Burrell and I'm Leon Wood
Speaker 1: and as two of us jay Is leading dieticians who
Speaker 1: specialize in evidence based nutrition, we bring you the Nutrition
Speaker 1: Couch Product Review, a weekly chat on everything that you
Speaker 1: can find in supermarkets. Nellyanne, I know that you are
Speaker 1: very tall, very active, You've got a small baby, and
Speaker 1: I know that you do snack. I think the first
Speaker 1: time we met each other and I was visiting your
Speaker 1: home to record, you are like, oh my god, I'm
Speaker 1: so hungry. I need to eat, And I thought, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I wish I had the metabolism of you're
Speaker 1: much younger person. But you know it is true than
Speaker 1: to find healthy snacks, there's a huge number of snack
Speaker 1: bars in supermarket. I have been a fan of nut
Speaker 1: bars a long time in my career because I find
Speaker 1: that it is a really good way for people to
Speaker 1: keep their portion of nuts control. Because of course we
Speaker 1: love our clients to have a serve of nuts a day.
Speaker 1: It's important for heart health and good evidence around that.
Speaker 1: But of course nuts are one of those foods that
Speaker 1: are really easy to overeat. Where do you sit on nutbars?
Speaker 1: Are you? Are there something that you are using with
Speaker 1: your clients.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love them. I regularly myself eat nutbars and
Speaker 2: I use them for my clients as well, obviously pending
Speaker 2: things like allergies.
Speaker 1: And also it is.
Speaker 2: Hard because they're not a good snack for you know,
Speaker 2: our kids as well, because a lot of schools are
Speaker 2: nut free due to allergies. But I think for adults
Speaker 2: they're actually a wonderful snack, and even for the kids
Speaker 2: on weekends. I'm a big fan of nut bars, but
Speaker 2: you know, some are masking as like a healthier alternative,
Speaker 2: or some just have the protein nutbar label slapped onto
Speaker 2: the packet. So I do think obviously any sort of
Speaker 2: form of packaged food is going to have a bit
Speaker 2: of added sugars. That's absolutely okay. It's not something you
Speaker 2: can get around. I think just for the convenience and
Speaker 2: the you know, it's already pre poor, it's a really
Speaker 2: tasty snack.
Speaker 1: I really do like them.
Speaker 2: I'm a fan. I do recommend them for a lot
Speaker 2: of my clients as well. But I think finding the
Speaker 2: right brand with the right ingredients is really really big.
Speaker 2: And I think for Susie I myself like, I don't
Speaker 2: have the time to make them. I'm not, you know,
Speaker 2: if I was going to cook something, I'd rather cook
Speaker 2: up them, you know, really nourishing dinner than spend my
Speaker 2: time making my own homemade nut bars. Of course, you
Speaker 2: can do that if you've got the time and you
Speaker 2: want to do that, that's great. But I think for
Speaker 2: a lot of us who are busy, were on the run,
Speaker 2: finding a few good brands in the supermarket is absolutely
Speaker 2: probably a lifesaver for a lot of us.
Speaker 1: It is, And there's quite a range of varieties and costs.
Speaker 1: So I've chosen three different types today to try and
Speaker 1: sort of cover the most common ones out there. So
Speaker 1: the first one I want to talk about, Leanne is
Speaker 1: the tasty brand. Now, this is a New Zealand brand.
Speaker 1: It's not Australian. They've got a really wide range. The
Speaker 1: ones I've chosen is the Chop peanut nut bar. This
Speaker 1: I've got a value pack here at fifteen, but normally
Speaker 1: they are five dollars for twelve, so they're pretty good
Speaker 1: from a cost perspective. If I look at the ingredients,
Speaker 1: it's forty seven percent peanuts. The next ingredient is more dextro,
Speaker 1: which is a form of sugar, and then you've got
Speaker 1: twelve percent milk chocolate, which is sugar, vegetable oil, milk,
Speaker 1: solid's cocoa powder, and then it runs down the list.
Speaker 1: There's sort of eleven percent dried fruit in that as
Speaker 1: well sultanas and dates glucose. So when I take a
Speaker 1: glance at the ingredient list, there is several forms of
Speaker 1: added sugar here, like I'm counting molded dexter and sugar itself.
Speaker 1: I'd count dried fruit as a sugar blue coase, sultana's dates,
Speaker 1: brown sugar, So it's not looking amazing when we look
Speaker 1: at that. It's a thirty five gram bar so per serve,
Speaker 1: it's got less than two hundred calories, which is quite
Speaker 1: low for a nut based snack. We should also say,
Speaker 1: of course, peanuts are a legume actually not technically a
Speaker 1: nut for anyone before you DMUs seven forty five kilo jules,
Speaker 1: so five grams of protein, which is a reasonably good amount.
Speaker 1: You know, if I was giving a recommendation for a
Speaker 1: snack bar, I would say to my clients a minimum
Speaker 1: of five grams of protein, and I'd probably push to ten.
Speaker 1: Eleven point six grams are fat. It does have a
Speaker 1: relatively high amount of saturated fat at six point eight percent,
Speaker 1: and it is a high fat product. It should also
Speaker 1: be noted that any nutbar will be high in fat
Speaker 1: because nuts are a rich source of fat. It then
Speaker 1: comes down to the type of fat, and we're aiming
Speaker 1: for more good fat than bad fat. This is relatively
Speaker 1: high and saturated fat, and that will be being bumped
Speaker 1: up by the chocolate coat. It is pretty high in
Speaker 1: sugar this one. So it's twenty five percent sugars and
Speaker 1: that's not really surprising when I've listed all the different types.
Speaker 1: It's eight point eight grams per serve, and probably if
Speaker 1: I was giving a recommendation, i'd aim for less than
Speaker 1: five grams of sugar on a nutbar because you can
Speaker 1: easily find that it hasn't got a huge amount of
Speaker 1: dietary fiber. You know, one point nine grams for one
Speaker 1: bar is relatively low. You know, you'd really try and
Speaker 1: get up to three for a stack bar. It's quite
Speaker 1: low in sodium. Now, Leanne It's not my favorite number,
Speaker 1: but it is one that I do use, particularly with teenagers.
Speaker 1: And the reason I use it is I find if
Speaker 1: they're a little bit anti nuts and healthier snacks, the
Speaker 1: chocolate does get them over the line. And these bars
Speaker 1: do taste really good and not surprising with that much sugar.
Speaker 1: So it's also pretty affordable for families because of course,
Speaker 1: when it comes to snack bars, they can get really expensive,
Speaker 1: particularly with nuts, and if you're feeding a teenage boy
Speaker 1: with high calorie requirements, I'd much rather they have this
Speaker 1: than playing biscuits or potato chips or musley bars that
Speaker 1: aren't giving them any protein. So I'm kind of in
Speaker 1: the middle with it. It's not something that I recommend
Speaker 1: to families or help people wanting to lose weight or
Speaker 1: my own clients generally, but I do use it sometimes
Speaker 1: with teenage boys because it's tasty, it's better than a
Speaker 1: lot of package snacks out there, and they'll eat it
Speaker 1: because of the chocolate. So I kind of am in
Speaker 1: the middle with it. But no, it's not something on
Speaker 1: my grocery list each ignor something that I'm giving to
Speaker 1: my own clients.
Speaker 2: And I don't think it's just for teenage boys. I
Speaker 2: think teenage girls. I think growing active teenagers. Absolutely, this
Speaker 2: is a really good, cost effective product for sedentary adults. No,
Speaker 2: you need to be finding it a different Oppertiti. It's
Speaker 2: probably too high in sugar and far too low on
Speaker 2: dietary fiber. I'm really disappointed with this all about a
Speaker 2: fiber in that I would really like to see that
Speaker 2: up over.
Speaker 1: I think a.
Speaker 2: Minimum of three grams of fire before a snack would
Speaker 2: really be my idea. So I think for growing active
Speaker 2: teenais is absolutely a great snack choice. As you said,
Speaker 2: it's pretty tasty, which helps get them most of the line,
Speaker 2: and that's a really wonderful source of nutrition. We've got
Speaker 2: some really good quality of research saying that we should
Speaker 2: all adults and teenagers should be having a serve of
Speaker 2: nuts each day.
Speaker 1: All right, now, the next one we're going to take
Speaker 1: a look at. And I should also say they're not
Speaker 1: gluten free that brand the best of my knowledge, so
Speaker 1: that's also relevant for a lot of our listeners. But
Speaker 1: the next one that you've sent me through this morning,
Speaker 1: because I was quite keen to or we are quite
Speaker 1: keen to look at AUDI products a little bit more. Now,
Speaker 1: the tricky thing with Audi is they don't list all
Speaker 1: their nutrition oils online. So that's feedback for AUDI definitely.
Speaker 1: If you want us to include more of your products,
Speaker 1: you've got to put more of the nutrition information on
Speaker 1: your website because it's quite tricky to find that. Liam
Speaker 1: was like you to have this, which was great. So
Speaker 1: this is the Hillcrest Gourmet protein Bars. Now I haven't
Speaker 1: checked who makes these, but I would think it's either
Speaker 1: nice and natural or tasty, probably making these for AUDI,
Speaker 1: but I can check that. Now, this is their gourmet
Speaker 1: protein bars with dark chocolate and cranberry. It's got ten
Speaker 1: grams of protein per serve and it is also gluten free.
Speaker 1: So straight away a couple of standout things there for
Speaker 1: people looking for high protein snacks or particularly gluten free,
Speaker 1: because there are a limited number of those products in
Speaker 1: the supermarket. Now I might need to help a little
Speaker 1: bit here because I've got the nutritionals. It's very small
Speaker 1: and my eyes are not great. So this is a
Speaker 1: forty gram bar. Do you want to read it? For
Speaker 1: making dark? You can't see very well if you got
Speaker 1: in front of you.
Speaker 2: So what we did was Jos actually picked these up
Speaker 2: at Aldi. I was just having a wizz through. I
Speaker 2: was looking at some of the high protein yogas. Then
Speaker 2: I didn't even read the back of the nutritional packet.
Speaker 2: I just picked these up for David and he said,
Speaker 2: from my taste perspective, He's like, yeah, they're super tasty,
Speaker 2: like get them again. And then when I looked at
Speaker 2: the nutritional I was I was like, I don't really know.
Speaker 2: It's got a two starhus rating on the front of
Speaker 2: pack And the ones that I picked up Susie with
Speaker 2: a dark chocolate and cranberry bars, so you know, obviously
Speaker 2: pretty tasty. Dark chocolate and cranberry is a great combination.
Speaker 2: So there's five bars. I don't actually have the exact cost.
Speaker 2: I think from memory they were there were three dollars
Speaker 2: something Susie still less than a dollar per bar. I think,
Speaker 2: you know, quite affordable for most families, so sort of
Speaker 2: sitting in that middle price point. And then when you
Speaker 2: look at one bar, which is forty grams, we've got
Speaker 2: around eight hundred kilodels, so about one hundred and ninety calories,
Speaker 2: so very similar to it from an energy density perspective
Speaker 2: to the last bar that we talked about, a bigger
Speaker 2: amount of protein. We've got ten point five grams per bar,
Speaker 2: no detectable gluten, so suitable for ours CELIAX. We've got
Speaker 2: nine point seven grams of fat, with three of that
Speaker 2: being saturated fat, so higher saturated fat than the bar
Speaker 2: that we previously talked about. We've got fifteen grams of
Speaker 2: carbohydrates per serving, so around one serve of carb per bar,
Speaker 2: with eight point two grams of sugar, so there's still
Speaker 2: a little bit higher in terms of added sugar, two
Speaker 2: point two grams of dietary fiber honestly still susie a
Speaker 2: little bit lower than what I would really like at
Speaker 2: a snack bar. And eighty four milligrams of sodium, which
Speaker 2: is very low. So the thing that really struck me
Speaker 2: here once I did turn over the packet when I
Speaker 2: got home, hence why I gave them to David and
Speaker 2: didn't eat them myself. There's a very very large ingredient
Speaker 2: list like this is perhaps one of the largest ingredient
Speaker 2: lists I've seen. So we've got roasted peanuts thirty percent.
Speaker 2: We've got glucose syrup which is a form of sugar.
Speaker 2: We've got high protein compound dark chocolate which is twelve percent.
Speaker 2: We've got soy protein nuggets fourteen percent. So that's how
Speaker 2: they get the added protein into that bar. So this
Speaker 2: is why this vir is quite high in protein. It's
Speaker 2: not just the nuts. They add this soy protein nuggets
Speaker 2: in there as well. Then we've got sweetened dried cranberries,
Speaker 2: not just standard dried cranberries. They've added the sugar free,
Speaker 2: the sugar free sweetened ones, so four point five percent cranberries.
Speaker 2: Also got three percent soy protein isolate, currants, per peeters,
Speaker 2: peanut paste, maltodextrin, inulin, vegetable oil, almonds, cashew, cinnamon, and
Speaker 2: a few sort of emulsifiers. And on the very bottom
Speaker 2: of the label Susy it does say contains sustainable palm oil. Now,
Speaker 2: I couldn't care less if it's sustainable or not. We're
Speaker 2: not big fans of palm oil on this podcast, are
Speaker 2: we Susy Regardless of it's sustainable.
Speaker 1: No, we are not at all, And you know, I
Speaker 1: tend to agree with you. It's at retailing it. I
Speaker 1: think they're about, like you said, three ninety eight four
Speaker 1: dollars for this brand. It's really a cost affordable option.
Speaker 1: But I certainly wouldn't be eating it myself, or it
Speaker 1: wouldn't be my go to nutbar of choice. I think
Speaker 1: it has a place, you know, I think for people
Speaker 1: looking for convenient, cost effective, protein rich options. Again for
Speaker 1: active people on a budget. You know, someone who's done
Speaker 1: a workout in the morning and wants a quick recovery
Speaker 1: or afternoon at a good price point. Keep in mind
Speaker 1: that some protein bars, as we've talked about before, up
Speaker 1: to five dollars a serve. You know, here you're looking
Speaker 1: at you know, less than a dollar. So it's got
Speaker 1: a place for me. But it's not my go to, No,
Speaker 1: definitely not, but it's you know, it's still better, I
Speaker 1: feel than a played music bar with no protein in it.
Speaker 1: But it's sort of as I said, if I was
Speaker 1: racing it out of ten, i'd give it, you know,
Speaker 1: a six out of ten as a reference point because
Speaker 1: of that really flooded ingredient list and a lot of
Speaker 1: added sugars. So yeah, they're interesting products, and I do
Speaker 1: encourage manufacturers to clean them up because they can abs
Speaker 1: still lighten those sugar loads. Definitely. They plug in as
Speaker 1: many relatively cheap ingredients at those price points. But if
Speaker 1: there's consumer push to cut it back, certainly, I think
Speaker 1: over time we'll see more and more options than a
Speaker 1: lower in sugar as we progress through. So yeah, it's
Speaker 1: sort of a middle ground product.
Speaker 2: Yeah, active people, it's not a bad option, is it
Speaker 2: Around two hundred calories ten grams of protein. It's a
Speaker 2: convenient option for active people. But it's not something I'd
Speaker 2: be recommending as a daily standard for most people because
Speaker 2: there is it's not exactly the cleanest ingredient lists that
Speaker 2: we've seen. There are a lot better, I think products
Speaker 2: on the market, but it is, you know, it's an
Speaker 2: affordable option for a lot of family, so I think
Speaker 2: it is good to include products like these. And David
Speaker 2: did say they're super tasty, so I mean it's probably
Speaker 2: something that he want me to buy. He can have
Speaker 2: them a couple of times a week. I think it's fine.
Speaker 2: But he does eat plain nuts as well, so you know,
Speaker 2: getting the nutrients in that way.
Speaker 1: Well, for example, it's going to be better if you
Speaker 1: like something sweet after dinner, it's going to be one
Speaker 1: hundred times better than two rows of chocolate if you're
Speaker 1: getting the hit of chocolate on a calorie control from
Speaker 1: some like that, rather than going to the vending machine
Speaker 1: and ordering a Snickers or a mass bar. You know,
Speaker 1: if you're swapping it strategically, it's certainly a better option
Speaker 1: from that perspective too. So that's another way to think
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I'll just add one further point. It's just peanuts,
Speaker 2: Like we really do want that variety of nuts. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: that's really looking for a nut bar with like peanuts
Speaker 2: and almonds and cashews and pistachios versus just peanuts. Because
Speaker 2: if you just says susy, there are a legum and
Speaker 2: the bulk of the research are and other types of nuts,
Speaker 2: not peanuts. So I would really if you're looking for
Speaker 2: a health conscious choice, I'd be picking a product which
Speaker 2: is a variety of nuts in they're not just peanuts
Speaker 2: as the added nuts.
Speaker 1: Actually, that is probably the main message of this conversation
Speaker 1: in general that I haven't mentioned enough. Absolutely, when you're
Speaker 1: looking for nut bars, you are less peanut more other nuts,
Speaker 1: because when it comes to those health provading benefits, they're
Speaker 1: much higher from things like your almonds, your walnuts, your
Speaker 1: hazel nuts, but are also more expensive nuts, which is
Speaker 1: why manufacturers, when they're trying to get a price point
Speaker 1: that's lower, will for peanut because it's cheaper make it,
Speaker 1: but nutritionally one hundred percent, you're better to spend on
Speaker 1: the other mix of nuts and have a quick scan
Speaker 1: and look for sort of you know, a higher proportion
Speaker 1: of almond or peanut lowered down. That's a really, really
Speaker 1: good point. I should have made that in the beginning land,
Speaker 1: which leads us to our final nut bar we wanted
Speaker 1: to look at. Now. This is from the Carmen's range
Speaker 1: we've chosen just around in one I just went Carmen's
Speaker 1: Almond hazel nut Vanilla. There's a lot of different varieties
Speaker 1: out there. Straight away, I'm liking it simply because there's
Speaker 1: sixty two percent nut, and that goes peanut, m and
Speaker 1: hazel nuts, so you're getting over a quarter of the
Speaker 1: nut bases from a nut other than a peanut. It
Speaker 1: does have peanuts in it, though, because as I said,
Speaker 1: to keep the price point down, they will need to
Speaker 1: mix that, but also to get the flavor of the
Speaker 1: actual bar, because of course peanuts give you that creamy
Speaker 1: taste which is important in the mouth when you're having
Speaker 1: a nut bar. So these retail for five a pack
Speaker 1: of five for six dollars, so it does start to
Speaker 1: go higher price point. They are gluten free, which is
Speaker 1: a great bonus for many clients, and also they really
Speaker 1: mark it on low. So these have got less than
Speaker 1: four grams of sugar per serve, which is incredibly low.
Speaker 1: Less than five grams, oh sorry, less than for my
Speaker 1: eyes are so bad, less than five grams per serve,
Speaker 1: so they've really worked hard to get a formulation that
Speaker 1: is lower. So it's just under that two hundred calories
Speaker 1: per serve, six point six grams of protein, twelve point
Speaker 1: eight grams of total fat, and just one point four saturated,
Speaker 1: so slightly higher and saturated fat at a percentage point.
Speaker 1: But nuts are hard to get down because they do
Speaker 1: have all of the fat types in there. So overall,
Speaker 1: very positive fat ratios in this product. Nine point four
Speaker 1: grams of carb per serve, so relatively low in carbohydrate
Speaker 1: for a snack bar, and less four point six grams
Speaker 1: of sugars Perserve Dietary five is outstanding three point seven grams,
Speaker 1: so that far higher than the other more processed bars
Speaker 1: we've seen. And I take a closer look at the
Speaker 1: ingredient list. They are getting some sugar from glucose, but
Speaker 1: there's also eight percent per peters, which are a really
Speaker 1: rich source of long chain fats, the Amiga three fat,
Speaker 1: so that's a really strong addition nutritionally, six percent honey,
Speaker 1: brown rice syrup, puff cilium cinnamon. They're getting the fiber
Speaker 1: from the cilium natural vanilla flavor. So a very clean list.
Speaker 1: It does have some added sugar because you're going from
Speaker 1: you've got to have the bar stick with something, you know.
Speaker 1: I think people are like, it's got sugar, Well, of
Speaker 1: course it does. It's a bar. What do you think
Speaker 1: it's going to stick with. You can't put egg in there,
Speaker 1: It's not going to taste very good. So when we
Speaker 1: get back to basic food, if you've got some chopped nuts,
Speaker 1: you've got to stick it with something. So there is
Speaker 1: going to always be some added sugar in a bar.
Speaker 1: But compared to say an apple, not that I'm comparing
Speaker 1: a processed food to an apple, but you're going to
Speaker 1: get twenty grams of natural sugars in an apple, So
Speaker 1: four point six in the grand scheme of things, as
Speaker 1: a snack food that's also offering protein and good fat,
Speaker 1: is is no cause for concern. And you know, land
Speaker 1: these would be one of my favorite types of nut
Speaker 1: bars out there because they're pretty clean, they taste good,
Speaker 1: they've got a high proportion of a range of nuts,
Speaker 1: they're high in fiber, they're pretty high in protein, and
Speaker 1: everyone likes them.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: They really work hard at Commons to create flavor profiles
Speaker 1: that are appealing and they've got their formulations down pa.
Speaker 1: And the other one that I'm a big fan of
Speaker 1: is the chok the coffee nut nutbar, because if you
Speaker 1: love caffeine and if you love a bit of dark chocolate,
Speaker 1: there's a nutbar with a drizzle on it, which is delicious.
Speaker 1: It's like having a coffee in the afternoon. So there's
Speaker 1: certainly some options you do pay a little bit more
Speaker 1: for the quality, but these are, you know, the bars
Speaker 1: that I will opt towards for clients who are looking
Speaker 1: for a nutbar. But I'll also say to clients, look,
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with having a handful of nuts. And
Speaker 1: a piece of fruit as an afternoon snack. Either. They're
Speaker 1: just options and if you are looking for a nup bar,
Speaker 1: certainly these are one of the best on the market
Speaker 1: in terms of ingredient lists and taste and profile.
Speaker 2: These are actually the ones that I eat on a
Speaker 2: very regular basis. SUSI the Commons the standard vanilla ut bar,
Speaker 2: because I've got a little bit IVS and my stomach
Speaker 2: is a bit funny. The reason why David and I
Speaker 2: eat different types of nutbars. He likes the high protein content.
Speaker 2: He's a little bit more energy dense because he's, you know,
Speaker 2: got more muscle mass, he's bigger than me. And also
Speaker 2: he can tolerate things like added fibers really really well.
Speaker 2: So I don't do well with a lot of brands
Speaker 2: to boost the fiber content up. We saw one of
Speaker 2: the ones the brand before Susie added Inland Come and added.
Speaker 2: I find celium is a lot more gentle and better
Speaker 2: tolerated on my gut and my ibs. I really can't
Speaker 2: tolerate chicory root at all, and Inland those two ones
Speaker 2: are big ones that companies add in to boost the
Speaker 2: overall fiber content. So I really struggle and I find
Speaker 2: a lot of the protein based bars either add inulin
Speaker 2: or chickery roots if you have a sensitive gut looking
Speaker 2: for bars without sort of inlin and chickery root, I
Speaker 2: think are a really good option for people with IBS.
Speaker 2: So you know, they're mostly scattered through the majority of
Speaker 2: our package sort of snack bar products. So I really
Speaker 2: do like the Carmen's range because from an IBS or
Speaker 2: an irritable our perspective, they are pretty good for most
Speaker 2: of my clients. So this is my one of choice.
Speaker 2: I like the dietary fibers higher. I like the sugars
Speaker 2: are higher, are lower, sorry, and I do like the
Speaker 2: mix of that nuts in there. It's not just all
Speaker 2: peanut based. But if you were just to read the
Speaker 2: ingredient list per se, you would think that it's a
Speaker 2: really high sugar product because you've got glucose, you've got honey,
Speaker 2: you've got brown rice syrup. You're like, well, that's three
Speaker 2: different types of sugar in the one bar. But what overall,
Speaker 2: looking at at all points, six grams is actually quite
Speaker 2: low for something like a nut bar. So this is
Speaker 2: definitely my favorite one. It is a higher price point,
Speaker 2: but I am someone who I would say, probably, you know,
Speaker 2: I can definitely talk from that privileged perspective. I can
Speaker 2: you know, afford this high price point, So this is
Speaker 2: something that I definitely choose to spend my money on
Speaker 2: a better quality product. But we understand that a lot
Speaker 2: of our families listening are on a budget, so we
Speaker 2: do hope that we've given you some different options in
Speaker 2: terms of some other more affordable bars as well. But
Speaker 2: if you do have, you know, a little bit of
Speaker 2: extra money to spend, this is probably definitely my pick
Speaker 2: of the three. Although it's not as high a protein
Speaker 2: as one of the other ones that we talked about,
Speaker 2: I think the general macro nutriment distribution is better better
Speaker 2: overall than the other two bars that we have talked about.
Speaker 1: True, And I will assay say to my clients listening,
Speaker 1: just because we say it's good doesn't mean you can
Speaker 1: have multiple ones per day. I'll talk to my clients
Speaker 1: about their nut bars and they'll say, you know, I
Speaker 1: was hungry, so I grabbed another Carmons bar And I'll
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, but they're quite high in calories still,
Speaker 1: So I have a general rule for the average person
Speaker 1: one nut based snack per day. So just because they're
Speaker 1: pretty good nutritionally, it doesn't give your license to eat
Speaker 1: the whole box, so just keep that in mind too.
Speaker 1: They are pretty tasty, they are right and well. That
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