How to Pick the Right Protein Bar

A run to the grocery store is usually supposed to be fast, but more often than not, you get distracted. Either by exploring the colourful display of food options or by stopping to read the ingredients, usually to figure out just how much more effort you’ll have to put into your workout after eating it. Even something as simple as a protein bar has dozens of varieties to choose from.

Since the start of this millennium, the protein bar market has exploded. Now there are several brands to choose from, each having their own range of flavours and unique combinations of ingredients. To pick the right one is getting more and more difficult.

The most important feature, when shopping for a protein bar, is the composition of nutrients present in the protein bar. An ideal protein bar should have a high portion of protein coupled with an appropriate amount of carbohydrates and healthy fats. It’s no fun to eat bland food items, especially if you have to do it every day for weeks in a row. To balance the tasteless flavour of the nutrients, protein bar companies started adding flavour to it using natural sugars like berries and almonds along with some artificial sugar to get just the right taste. Alas! With every bit of taste that the sugars added, they also increased the chances of weight gain and other side effects – contrary to the purpose of a protein bar. Lucky for us, this was rectified soon enough and nowadays, you can find sugar free protein bars in the market that have all the added benefits of taste without the consequences of the sugar.

Even from all the nutrients present in a protein bar, the protein serving size differs on a person-to-person basis. For those who just need to get through the day, 10g of protein per bar is best but for those who have an active fitness lifestyle, 30g of protein per bar is the recommended serving size. This is one of the principal factors when searching for a workout protein bar.

Lastly, if you’re an avid protein bar consumer, then you must be buying protein bars on a regular basis. As such, you have to ensure that the price of the bar is well within your budget without compromising on the quality of the protein bar!