SPECIAL FEATURES:
Email
Simple organic energy bars
These three yummy food bars are made with a handful of healthy organic ingredients you can recognize.
Tue, Feb 24 2009 at 4:57 PM
Related Topics:
When it comes to energy bars, I think less is more, in my opinion. Eat a regular Power Bar, for example, and you’ll be ingesting evaporated cane juice syrup, corn syrup, maltitol syrup, and lots of other sugary syrupy stuff along with a bunch more ingredients you won’t recognize or be able to pronounce.
That’s why I tend to go for the bars with just a handful of organic ingredients. With these, I know the exact healthy ingredients that are going into my body. And IMHO, these simple bars just taste better too. They’re not so candy bar sweet, and they don’t have that weird synthetic taste. Here are my three favorite food bars:
Raw Revolution. Green with Music included one of these bars in its shwag bags — and I loved mine. These organic live food bars come in eight flavors that are sweetened with agave nectar, not sugar, making them tasty without being too sweet.Though I’m not a big fan of spirulina, I loved the Spirulina & Cashew bar, which is made with just six ingredients: cashew, dates, agave nectar, almonds, spirulina and sprouted flax.
Lara Bar. These raw, unprocesed bars are probably my favorite brand of organic bars. Each bar — ranging in flavors from Key Lime Pie to Cocoa Mole — contains a serving of fruit. In fact, the fruit ingredients pretty much provide all the natural sweetness for these yummy bars.Lara Bar also uses fair trade cocoa for its chocolate-flavored bars — including its line of Jocalat bars, which have the same healthy goodness of Lara bars, but with more fair trade chocolatey emphasis.
Clif Nectar bars. I don’t like all Clif bars since they seem to pack more soy protein than I can handle — though Clif bars, in general, seem to be a good substitute for the less eco Power Bars. But I do love the newish Clif Nectar bars.All four flavors of this Nectar line are made with five or fewer ingredients, and each bar contains two servings of fruit! Pick from Cherry Pomegranate, Dark Chocolate Walnut, Cranberry Apricot Almond and Lemon Vanilla Cashew.
Have another tasty simple bar to recommend? Share your favorites in the comments.
Images: Courtesy rawrev.com, Lara Bar, and Clif Bar
The opinions expressed by MNN Bloggers and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not reflect the opinions of MNN.com. While we have reviewed their content to make sure it complies with our Terms and Conditions, MNN is not responsible for the accuracy of any of their information.
You might also like:
Sign in with one of these accounts to add your comment.
EDITORS' PICKS
Advertisement
TODAY'S MOST POPULAR ON
- Watch: Sir David Attenborough deals with a band of cannibals the British way
- 15 famous people who mysteriously disappeared
- 10 uses for Parmesan cheese rinds
- 7 surprising things Pope Francis has done in his first 100 days
- Too beautiful to be real? 16 surreal landscapes found on Earth
- 13 natural remedies for the ant invasion
- Student science experiment finds plants won't grow near Wi-Fi router
- 8 hair care treatments you can make yourself
- 9 habits that may do more harm than good
- The 9 nastiest things in your supermarket
From our sponsor
NEWSLETTER
Advertisement
My kids love the Clif organic Zbars. They come in flavors they like and are a good hold over snack on busy days when we are late for a meal. To find something organic that both my kids will eat without complaining is always good.
These are the ingredients from the chocolate chip ones, their favorite flavor.
Ingredients: Organic Chocolate Chips (Organic Evaporated Cane Juice, Organic Unsweetened Chocolate, Organic Cocoa Butter, Soy Lecithin, Natural Flavors),