AKICILJ - Protein Bars

[sraun]

I'm looking for a protein bar that meets the following spec:

150-225 Total Calories
<= 20 grams net carbs
>= 10 grams protein
< 30% calories from fat, preferably < 20%

Preferably NOT peanut butter flavored. I'll look at something that is peanut butter + chocolate.

My quick math said 20 g carbs, 10 g protein, 5.5 g fat comes out at about 170 calories, so they should be doable.

My problem is that all the ones I found when I was looking yesterday were either 25+ g net carbs, or 40+% calories from fat. :-(

Comments

[fmsv.livejournal.com]

For clarification, which method of calculating net carbs are you using? Carbs - fiber, Carbs - fiber - sugar alcohols, Carbs - fiber - 1/2 sugar alcohols, or something different?

[sraun]

In practice, carbs - fiber. If I notice sugar alchohols, I'll subtract them too - but the only thing that I've bought that I noticed had them was candy.

[countrycousin.livejournal.com]

Can't help, haven't used them much, if at all. (I've used some bars, but I wasn't happy with any that I found.) On the grounds that when you'll use them you'll be hungry, I'd relax the carbs requirement before the fat requirement. If you eat reasonably slowly, not much should be converted to fat, whereas if it starts out as fat, there's not much you can do except add it to the inventory.

[pmat.livejournal.com]

Some flavors of Atkins bars come close to this. The chocolate chip granola are 220 cal, 80 cal from fat, 18 grams carb, 17 grams protein, for instance, and the oatmeal raisin breakfast bars are 140 cals, 45 from fat, 15 gm crab, 11 gm protein. Some of the South Beach bars are also fairly close to this.

If you're willing to just count "impact" carbs, the Optimum Nutrition protein bars are very low fat and low carb: the chocolate are 180 calories, 25 calories fat, 19 g carbs (18 of them sugar alcohol), and 20 g protein. Come to think of it, even if you count the sugar alcohol that's within your spec.

www.netrition.net carries a large number of protein bars and provides the nutritional info for all of them on their website. (I've also found them to be cheaper than most sites and very fast, but even if you don't want to order from them their site is useful.)

[gomeza.livejournal.com]

The Zone Perfect bars come close, but don't quite meet your net carbs requirement. We've looked at LOTS of protein bars, and I don't think any of them would meet your requirements. Although some we stopped buying because they taste horrible.

[(Anonymous)]

Alton Brown has a good recipe for one if you want to make them yourself (search "protien bars" on foodnetwork.com). They are yummy ... they involve peanut butter, but it is not the main flavor. You'd have to do the math or watch the episode the recipe came from to get the nutritional info.

I will check when I get back to work...

[colliemommie.livejournal.com]

Finally a case where working in fitness hell will do someone some good!

(I think the Power Crunch bars might work, in which case you're in luck because they are fabulously yummy as well. But we have about ten brands in stock, so I'll do some homework.)