 Welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. I have a super special Video for you guys today. We are going to talk all things protein bars, and I'm telling you all things protein bars I spent weeks hours and hours doing the research for this video Going to my local health food store to see what types of protein bars are out there on the market Some of these bars are gonna be very familiar to you and some of these are going to be new finds Maybe things that you haven't seen in your local grocery store and some that are kind of customized to your natural food or your health food store But I wanted to get a variety of protein bars for this video I took a look at several things when putting this together number one I looked at the ingredients in the protein bars I also looked at the smart points in the protein bar and I also looked at the price Because I wanted to share a good comparison of these different protein bars with you So what this video is going to basically entail is I'm gonna share with you dozens of protein bar options We're gonna talk about good options for protein bars Good meaning ingredient wise and smart point wise and we're also gonna talk about those Maybe not so good options for protein bars based on ingredients and smart points and then at the end We are going to do a taste test of some protein bars about five that I've never tried before That fall in the good option category whether that be ingredients smart points or both So if you are here for it If you have a little bit of time on your hands and you want to know all things protein bars stay tuned So let's jump in to today's video we have a lot a lot of protein bars to go over So I'm gonna start with number one and that is the no cow bar So this is a protein bar that is dairy-free now this bar falls as a it's okay bar There are four ingredients present in the no cow bar that I generally don't like to see those four ingredients are Peanut oil Natural flavors your rithritol, which is a sugar alcohol and palm oil None of those ingredients are super desirable and really in any food So I would give the no cow bar on a scale of one to ten I'll do my best to rate all of the bars ten being absolutely phenomenal and one being absolutely avoidable I would put the no cow bar kind of right in the middle at five on the scale the smart points of the no Cow bar are four to five if you're looking for a dairy-free bar This is an option for you But there are a lot of other better dairy-free options out there number two are the Bobo's bars And I have seen these at my local coffee shops. I've honestly never had them now these bars are pretty good There are two ingredients in the Bobo's bars that aren't my favorite and those two ingredients are canola oil Which isn't expel repressed and natural flavor now these bars are seven smart points So they are a little bit higher in the smart point range But I would rate these on the one to ten scale at about a seven because the ingredients are pretty good with the exception of those two But they are a little bit high in smart points. Next are the primal kitchen bars You guys know I love my primal kitchen mayo my primal kitchen dressings It's such a fantastic brand and they outdid themselves on their protein bar just like a lot of their other products So the primal kitchen protein bars, they only have one ingredient that I don't love and that is natural flavor Now natural flavor is basically artificial flavor So if they just use like an extract or real fruits, that would be even better But overall the primal kitchen bars rate about an eight out of ten on the scale now These bars are going to cost you five to seven smart points So not too bad just depending on the flavor whether they are five or seven point next are the quest bars And I know that these are extremely popular in the WW community But I hate to break it to you these definitely don't fall on the high end of the scale So the quest bars the reason that they're not some of my top bars are their ingredients They contain ingredients such as urethritol, which is that sugar alcohol natural flavor But they also contain sucralose, which is a chemically processed sugar So they have a sugar alcohol and sucralose. So they're kind of double dipping in the sugar alcohol I know that as heavy amounts of urethritol do cause a lot of stomach and digestion issues for people and quest Urethritol count is pretty high So I would rate quest probably a four out of ten as far as good ingredients go on the scale Now they are pretty low in smart points. They range for about four to five smart points So you're going to find a common trend in the protein bar world if they contain a lot of artificial sweeteners Sugar alcohols or just not good for you sugar alternatives They're going to generally be lower in smart points because smart point values are based on sugar That's one of the components that go into Making a smart point value so bars that use real natural whole sugar are gonna always cost you a little more in smart points So just keep that in mind as we go through the bars next up is the rise bar I have never seen this before I found this at my local health food store and I was pretty excited about this bar It has pretty darn good ingredients So the rise bar gets a nine out of ten on the scale and I'll tell you why there are three Only three ingredients in these bars and those three ingredients are almonds honey and whey protein Now of course the almonds and honey are gonna vary based on the flavor But three whole food ingredients and the protein powder is pretty good ingredients as well So I'm gonna give the rise a nine out of ten now the rise bars are going to cost you about eight to nine Smart points why you ask because they use honey and we are penalized for sugar and there is a lot of sugar in honey So these are going to cost you more in smart points But as far as ingredients go these are top-notch next are the dang bars dang those bars I know a lot of you have heard of those. I've seen these kind of in the WW community These bars have a couple of ingredients that I don't love and those ingredients are natural flavors Aka artificial flavors and sunflower oil and it looks like they actually have natural flavors twice So I would imagine that there are two different types of natural slash artificial flavors in these bars now Also, these bars are pretty point heavy. They're going to cost you about seven smart points for a bar So I'm going to put these pretty far down on this scale at about a three out of ten Based on the ingredients and the smart point value again There are so many lower point better ingredient options out there I probably wouldn't be picking up a lot of these dang bars Next is a bar that a lot of us have eaten throughout the years We see these all over the world and these are the cliff bars your basic cliff bar now These for me are an absolute no-go for two reasons one of them is the ingredients and the second one is the smart points So the cliff bar contains two ingredients that I absolutely do not love number one is cliff bars have soybeans in them Soybeans are always GMO if they don't state that they're organic and non-GMO the cliff bar does not state either of those things So they're gonna be heavily sprayed with glyphosate or roundup and they're also going to be GMO So I would stay away from that and secondly it does have rice syrup in there now You're gonna find rice syrup in a lot of protein bars. It's just a fancy name for sugar So it basically has the same effect on your body is sugar So brown rice syrup isn't or rice syrup isn't absolutely ideal now in my opinion It's better than fake sugar and sugar alcohol But it is still going to spike your blood sugar and have the same effect as regular sugar would be and the worst part about the Cliff bars besides the ingredients is they're going to cost you ten smart points No way so these are one out of ten on the scale Next are the picky bars and I've never seen these either and I found these out again my local health food store And I thought these looked really intriguing. I'm thinking picky bar picky eater picky ingredients So when I flipped it over there were a couple of ingredients I didn't love and that was safflower oil, which was not Expeller pressed and again brown rice syrup you're gonna see that a lot in these bars Unfortunately now again, I'd rather have brown rice syrup than sugar alcohol But the safflower oil not being a stellar press is going to be GMO So I would avoid that type of oil really at all and especially in a protein bar They could simply use like an avocado oil or a coconut oil and it's just a much cleaner healthier oil Their smart points are six to eight So they're a little bit point heavy as well for a couple of questionable ingredients So I would put these about a six out of ten on the scale next up is another popular bar and so many of you Reached out and asked me if this bar was clean and that is the our X bar So when we think about the RX bar as a lot of you did myself included We think of this being a pretty clean bar Unfortunately, the RX bar has natural flavors aka artificial flavors. So it's not an actual clean protein bar However, it's cleaner than a lot of the other bars out there But the RX bar is going to cost you seven smart points So I don't know if the point value is necessarily worth it However, if you're going to in a pinch grab a protein bar The RX bar is a pretty decent option rating about a seven out of ten on the scale Next up is a bar made from a very popular protein powder brand called organ organics They make a protein bar as well now what this bar has going for it is a pretty good smart point value What this bar doesn't have going for it is ingredients in the organ organic protein bars You are going to find tapioca syrup, which is really just sugar your riffra tall Which is a sugar alcohol. So they're double dipping in sugar and natural aka artificial flavors So it has three ingredients that I don't absolutely love what I do love though Is the smart point value ranges from four to five so pretty good on the scale for smart points Just a few three pretty not so great ingredients So I would rate this a five out of ten the next bar I've actually shared several times on my channel because I purchased it off of the protein-wise website And this is the oat mega bar. These bars are really really good I've had several of the flavors and I really do like them, but the ingredients my friends Oh, I was a little bit disappointed in the oat mega bar. You're going to find ingredients such as brown rice syrup again Sunflower oil, which is not expel repressed and again natural flavors So three ingredients that I don't love dang it oat mega bar now are these ingredients absolutely god-awful No, but they're definitely not Ingredients I would naturally reach for and the Omega bars are generally about six smart points of peace So I put these kind of right in the middle at five out of ten Let's revisit the cliff bar for a minute and talk about the cliff Z bar Which is the cliff bar that is designed for kids So it is going to be a little bit more point friendly because it's a kid-sized bar But again, it has those terrible cliff bar ingredients. You're going to find cane sugar So actual worst of the worst sugar and natural flavors in the kids bars. I don't know about you I don't have kids, but I imagine if I did I wouldn't want to pump any more sugar into them than absolutely necessary So unfortunately the ingredients make the cliff kid or Z bar a no-go for me Now the points are definitely better than the 10 of the traditional clip bar. These bars are half the point So they're about five smart points But because of the ingredients I would put these as about a five out of ten on the scale next step is the Luna bar This is another question a lot of you have asked is this a good choice for a clean protein bar? You would think but not so fast my friend. So the Luna bar has some ingredients. I don't love brown rice syrup It also has palm oil, which is not it's Bella press cane sugar and natural artificial flavor So for ingredients, I would probably stay away from the Luna bar. They don't taste the best now They're good in my opinion to me They don't taste the best but the ingredients are just not ingredients that I think that you should put into your body and the Smart points aren't so hot either a Luna bar is going to cost you six to seven smart points They're pretty small and with four not so great ingredients. I would give these a three out of ten Let's take another quick visit back down the cliff bar road cliff bar also makes a cliff Protein bar which is different than the traditional cliff bar in the cliff Z bar for kids Now these protein bars claim to be great ingredients and good for you But when you flip over these bars, they contain ingredients like tapioca syrup, which is sugar cane syrup palm oil and natural flavors So again double dipping the sugar, which makes them sweet and delicious I can only imagine but these are also 10 smart points like their traditional cliff bar So I would rate these probably a one out of ten on the scale because of the ingredients and the smart point value I would say overall for me. I would probably just stay away from the cliff bars in general next is a bar called the new go Organic bar. I found this at my local health food store. The packaging looked super appealing when I flipped it over I took a look at the ingredients and this bar contains again tapioca syrup natural flavors and cane sugar So kind of a double dip in the sugars again pretty high in sugar and sugars I don't love to see and then they swoop in some natural slash artificial flavors as well And these bars are a little bit point-heavy these bars range from seven to eight smart points I have notes by the way seven to eight smart points apiece So I'm gonna give these a two out of ten for the ingredients and the fact that they are pretty point-heavy Next is the pro bar now This is another bar I've never seen before that I found at my local health food store and again It claims to be a good protein bar actually more like a meal replacement bar But when I flipped the bar over I found ingredients that I don't love and a lot of them I found tapioca syrup a gave syrup which really spikes your blood sugar cane sugar palm oil and natural flavor So we have three yes three sugars in one protein bar No way and these protein bars range from seven to ten smart points And you want to know why it's all the sugar that they put into these bars So I would absolutely stay away from this this would be a one out of ten for me next is the epic bar So we've all seen the epic kind of meat bars kind of like a beef jerky in the form of a bar Those are delicious and have great ingredients But epic also makes a protein bar and I was so excited to see this and these bars are amazing They have excellent ingredients literally you guys perfect perfect Ingredients and they range from about four to six smart points depending on the bar So not only do they have stellar ingredients? They have amazing smart point values and we're gonna taste test one of these new epic protein bars at the end of this video So I'm gonna give epic a ten out of ten and stay tuned for the taste test There's also another new go bar out on the market. That's called the new go slim So this is a smaller thinner bar kind of like the think thin which we'll get to that a little bit later But this bar has less smart points, but unfortunately it still had a couple of questionable ingredients So in the new go slim I found cane sugar and natural or artificial flavors These are only five smart points though because they're a thinner smaller version But for five points, I don't love that it has sugar and natural flavors So I would give these a five out of ten now the next bar is going to be a little bit controversial So it depends on how you look at dried frozen fruit on your WW journey I do not count dried or frozen fruit because I don't overeat that I stick to one serving whether I'm having fresh Dried or frozen so the next bar is called the that's it bar and literally that's it You guys it's made of fruit and it's pressed to form a bar So for me, I would probably count these as zero smart points I would make sure that I drink a lot of water with these bars to kind of rehydrate the pressed fruit But there's no added sugar. So again, I would probably count these as zero But if you are following WW these would be five smart points apiece, but you guys perfect ingredients 10 out of 10 It's literally just fruit. So however, you choose to count dried blended fruit You would count these bars either as zero points or five points, but ten out of ten Next up are my beloved built bars. I know you guys were waiting for this one to come up So with the built bar, you guys know, I love these my beloved built bars I know you guys have been waiting for the built bar So I try to follow a clean approach to WW as you know, try to follow about the 90-10 rule 90% clean whole food 10% foods that I love built bar falls into the foods that I love category But I wanted to share that with you today Because as far as points go built bar number one lowest smart point You're gonna find of a protein bar and in my opinion really the best tasting protein bar that I've had But we have some questionable ingredients in the built bar. We have natural flavors Eurythritol and we also have malatol now malatol and Eurythritol are sugar alcohols that I don't love I do not like sugar alcohols. The Eurythritol luckily is a very very small amount less than what's in a traditional sugar packet So I'm not as opposed to that but again, I'm not a hundred percent sold on the ingredients I'm a hundred percent sold on the taste and the smart points the points are three to four for a bar and they literally taste like a Candy bar, so I keep built bar in my rotation But if I were to rate built bar based on these ingredients It would fall in the middle at about a five out of ten But ten percent the foods that I love built bar falls right into that ten percent another very popular bar in the WW community and one that you can find at Costco is the pure protein bar now I used to eat these all the time like all the time before I discovered built bar This was kind of my go-to bar because these are about only five smart points So they're really really low in smart points, but the ingredients are why these are really low So these bars have malatol palm oil natural flavor and sucralose so lots of not good ingredients I don't love that there's sucralose. I really try to stay away from that So these again are five points, so they're good on the smart points, but not so good on the ingredients So I would put these at about a four out of ten also at Costco You can find the Kirkland or the Costco brand of protein bar. This is another thing I see a lot in the WW community because of these smart points There are some ingredients in these Costco bars I don't love and those ingredients are urethra tall and natural flavor now These have a little higher dose of urethra tall which makes me love them a little bit less But these bars also are pretty good in smart points. They're about five smart points apiece So I would give these about a five out of ten Also for me, I don't care for the taste and texture. These are a lot texture-wise like the quest bar So if you don't like the texture of the quest bars You probably won't like the texture of the Costco or the Kirkland brand protein bars also at Costco You can find the Robert Irvine fit crunch bars. I've actually never had these now I have been told that these are really really delicious, but you guys the ingredients I was super disappointed when I flipped over and looked at the ingredients So the ingredients in these bars are palm oil sugar Malatal Sorbetal and corn syrup so they have so many sugar and sugar alternatives. It's crazy to me That's probably again why they taste so good. They are loaded with sugar alcohols loaded with fake sugar I absolutely would stay away from these for me These are a one out of ten just based on all of the fake sugar and sugar alcohols that are in these and they're about six Smart points apiece next is the zone bar. Do you guys remember the zone diet? Is that still a thing? Like do people still follow the zone diet? I hope that if they do they're not eating these bars because the zone bars Have a lot of bad ingredients malatal palm oil natural flavors sugar and sucralose and in fact They have natural flavors twice, so I don't know what to they're using natural is artificial to me But they have a laundry list of ingredients So one out of ten on the scale and a zone bar is going to cost you about six smart points So in my opinion not worth it. What about the og the power bar the good old power bar? Nope the power bar contains cane juice, which is basically cane sugar Multodextrin and natural flavor, so it has real sugar fake sugar and artificial flavors And again, I can't get past the texture of the power bar It's very reminiscent of the Costco and the quest bar. It's that same kind of texture The power bars are about five to seven smart points So not terrible on the smart points, but terrible on the ingredients making them about a four out of ten No, I don't have an oldie where I live But I know that a lot of you have Aldi's and Aldi has a health food brand Or so they deem a health food brand called fit and active everything from yogurt cheese all the things Well, they even have a fit and active protein bar. So I dug into that protein bar a little bit. Oh my goodness You guys how incredibly disappointing in ingredients that a health brand of a grocery store has So let's go over these ingredients in these fit and active protein bars So these have malatol palm oil natural flavor sucralose and dun dun dun Kereginan no way No, how kereginan is an inflammatory and these are loaded with fake sugar one out of ten and they're five to seven smart points So not interested another kind of og bar that I didn't even know was still around are the Gatorade bars Do you guys have you do you guys eat those? Do you remember those the Gatorade brand of bars? So these are shown all over commercials are used to be with athletes and great recovery after a workout You guys the ingredients in these bars are some of the worst in the Gatorade bars There is cane cane syrup palm oil vegetable oil corn syrup sugar natural and artificial flavors vegetable oil and caramel coloring and and and just a huge less Absolutely the worst ingredients of all the bars that I looked at Zero out of ten if I could give them a zero out of ten and the smart points are not good They're eight to ten smart points eight to ten smart points for oil and sugar another bar I see all over the ww community are the fiber one protein bars. I heard that these are delicious I've not tried these they just don't fall in line with what I eat But I've heard that these are absolutely delicious, but you guys a cautionary measure The ingredients the ingredients in these fiber one protein bars Are going to be ingredients such as sugar palm oil mouth to toe soybean oil Fruit toast, which is sugar canola oil dextrose natural and artificial flavor So could the list again get any longer between the fiber one protein bars and Gatorade? We've got about 99 ingredients and 99 ingredients that aren't good for you. So I would stay away from these I know that they taste delicious, but honestly if you're going to go with a delicious tasting bar You're honestly better off with a built bar over the fiber one protein bars And these bars range from about five to six smart points So they have a lot worse ingredients and they're higher in smart points than the built bar And you guys say they taste delicious But again if you're going for taste and smart points and ingredients the built bar is honestly a better option Your beloved premier protein the protein shake that so many of you love on ww Did you know that premier also has a protein bar now? You guys know that I don't drink the premier protein shakes because I don't like the ingredient list It's a huge list of ingredients the protein bars in my opinion have that huge list of ingredients And those ingredients are things such as sugar palm oil natural and artificial flavors and sucralose So they've got real sugar fake sugar artificial flavors really similar to what's in the premier protein So again, I don't know that I would reach for these bars And they are really high in point six to eight smart points So I would give these about a two out of ten as far as ingredients and smart points go Next up is one of my favorite granola brands and this is the purely elizabeth I'm going to be taste testing this bar at the end as well But she also makes a granola bar or a bar Now these bars are pretty good in the purely elizabeth bars. You're going to find Really good ingredients. They're made with coconut oil And they're also made with coconut sugar So stellar stellar ingredients best in class as far as ingredients 10 out of 10 Now these bars are pretty darn good in smart points as well They range between five and eight smart points depending on if you pick the granola based bar or the actual protein based bar I'm going to taste test the granola bar, but you guys ingredients These are absolutely a 10 out of 10. I mentioned earlier to think thin bars So let's dig into the think thin a little bit And let's first talk about the ingredients because think thin is another popular Protein bar that I see in the weight loss or w w community Now the ingredients in the think thin that I don't love are ingredients such as maltitol Which is terrible for your stomach canola oil and they also use natural flavor So again, whenever an oil that isn't expelor pressed or isn't avocado or extra virgin olive oil You want to stay away from that their gmo. They're made with gmo crop Just not good for you heavily heavily sprayed with pesticide So the think thin bars in my opinion are out The only thing they have going for them is their smart point value and they are about six smart points apiece So not bad, but again, you can have other bars for half of that smart points with a little bit better ingredients So I give the think thin a five out of 10. Next up are the go raw bars I've actually talked about the go raw brand a few times and most of the go raw products I haven't loved so I decided to pick up one of these bars to taste test with you guys So these are the go raw protein bars now these bars pretty darn good The only ingredient I don't love is natural flavors, but they don't have any weird sugars or sugar alcohol So overall these are actually a good choice of a protein bar the smart points on these are going to be Two to four smart points. So they're very very low In fact, one of the lowest in smart point value of the protein bars that I've shared with you I just don't know about the taste So we're going to taste test best one at the end of the video as well But 10 out of 10 for ingredients and smart point. Next is the kind bar. This is another question that I've gotten Is this a clean bar? I have also noticed when I watch flave city bobby perish on flave city on youtube Check him out. He's amazing that he actually gets that question too. What about kind bars? kind bars are not a clean bar And they're not a bobby approved bar if you watch flave city and the reason for that is going to be the Ingredients in a kind bar. They're not just your nuts and seeds my friends You're going to find ingredients in a kind bar such as palm oil Sugar and natural flavor. So definitely not in my opinion a great option for a go to protein bar You have a lot better options that we'll talk about here in a little bit of these nut based bars and kind bars Cost seven to eight smart points. So they're very very high in smart points So based on ingredients and smart points, I put these about a three out of ten next is the go macro bar Now these bars I have had these these are really really good and the only ingredient in these that I don't love is brown rice syrup Now again, it could be worse. It could be sugar alcohols or cane sugar But I'm still not a huge fan of brown rice syrup because it's still sugar But the other thing about the go macro bars that I don't love are the smart points They're actually eight to ten smart points But I would give them a nine out of ten on the scale based on the fact that they only have one questionable Ingredient and they actually taste really really good if you're willing to spend the smart point Next is the laura bar now Let me just tell you the laura bar is the cleanest of the cleaner one of the cleanest bars that you can buy Hands down. It's literally like dates fruit and nuts. That's it But ingredients 10 out of 10 smart points. They are a little bit high They range from eight to nine smart points. So they are a little bit high in points But if you want just a high quality good option for a bar Hands down, you should always go for the laura bar 10 out of 10 What about bob's red mill bob's red mill flowers and notes and all the things that bob puts out on the market Well, bob also has a protein bar now his protein bar is okay The ingredients I don't love are going to be simple a couple of ingredients tapioca syrup and natural flavors Those are the two ingredients in the bob's red mill bar that I don't absolutely love Now I've also tried this bar. It's really really delicious But it is seven smart points. So it doesn't have the best ingredients a couple questionable ones and it also is seven points So because of that, I would put this kind of right in the middle at about a five out of ten Next up are the garden of life bars. Now. This is another company that puts out a protein powder Called the garden of life organic protein powder. Now these bars Really a great option. I'm going to be taste testing this at the end as well So in the garden of life bar the only ingredient that is not the best is that there's cane sugar But that's actually in the chocolate which is pretty standard in most bars coated in chocolate All of the other ingredients are absolutely amazing. Now the smart points value for these bars are going to be five Which is also freaking amazing. So not only do you have best in class ingredients You will have a five smart point bar highly highly recommend this bar if you can get this in your area 10 out of 10 I am going to taste test this. So let's see if the taste matches up to the ingredients in the smart point Now this is a bar that I found at my local health food store. I've never seen this before This is the betty lou's fruit bar. So this reminds me of a fig newton And I was excited to see this because I love fig newtons. I do not love the ingredients in fig newtons So I was hoping that miss betty lou would give us a little bit better ingredients But in these bars, I found ingredients such as natural flavors brown rice syrup and safflower oil. That was not expeller press. So No go betty lou not a bar that I would reach for and they are about eight smart points for the Traditional size bar if you get the bigger bar, they have like a jumbo one. It's about 15 points So I'm going to go two out of 10 based on the ingredients and the smart points Sorry, betty another bar I found next to betty lou where the zing bars and I had never seen these before They had quite a few flavors of these at my natural food store. So I would imagine this you're going to find at a health food store So the zing bar the ingredients in there that I don't love are going to be sugar Tapioca syrup and brown rice syrup. So did you hear that three three different sugars in the zing bar? Why so much sugar and that makes the zing bar really point heavy as well They're going to cost you seven to eight smart points No way and you know what if they just took out Half of that sugar it would really reduce the smart points and make it a much better option for a bar So I'm going to give the zing bar three out of 10 based on sugar and smart points Now this is another bar that I was pretty excited to find it kind of goes hand in hand with the laura bar And I found this at my health food store. This is called the raw Ma so r a w like raw and then ma bar this bar perfect Absolutely perfect ingredients very very reminiscent to the laura bar as far as ingredients goes Just your nuts your seeds your fruit But unfortunately because of these ingredients similar to the laura bar. These are going to be seven to eight smart points But if you are looking for a good for you real food Whole food as good as it can get 10 out of 10 bar the laura bar or the rama hands down You just got to suck up the seven to eight smart points Next is the foodie bar foodie with one o and this is another bar that I'd never seen before until I found it at my health food store But foodie friends, you guys have some ingredients I don't like and in your bar. I found brown rice syrup palm oil and peanut oil So we are double dipping in the oils So this is going to elevate the smart points plus neither of these oils are healthy fats Neither of them are expel repressed and are oils that you should try to avoid So the foodie bars range six to eight smart points So between the double dose of oils the natural flavors the smart points three out of ten Next up is the think protein bar. So we talked about the think thin bar So now let's talk about the think protein based bar Just like the thin bar don't love the ingredients in the think protein bar You're going to find melt at all which sets your stomach Natural flavors and sunflower oil that is not expel repressed. So just like the think thin bar I would steer clear of the think protein bars and the smart points on these bars are six smart points So I'm going to go two out of ten based on smart point value in those ingredients Next up is the core bar when I saw this bar. I thought this one's going to be a good one. Nope The core bar has xylitol, which is a terrible fake sugar regular sugar and caramel coloring Why why put caramel coloring in there? The only reason anybody puts caramel color in anything is to give it a brown color. Why Why just not give us it in its raw color for my friend? So this bar is absolutely out and it's 10 smart points You heard me right 10 one out of 10 I also spotted a meal replacement bar. So this was a big gigantic bar called the pro Live bar now I knew this being a meal replacement bar that it was going to be really high in smart points But what I didn't know was some of the ingredients so in the pro live bar It has brown rice syrup. So it only has one ingredient. I don't love I love it better than cane sugar or sugar alcohol But you guys the smart points wait for it 15 to 17 smart points Per bar now I don't think unless you are in desperate measures that you should be eating 15 to 17 points in a bar Because you can have a lot of food and healthy real food for 15 to 17 smart points So I'm going to go one out of 10 even though it only has one questionable ingredients though smart points Next up is the g2 g bar and this is another one I've never heard of I found this at my local health food store and this bar ingredient wise has brown rice syrup again But also has sugar. So it's double dipping again in the sweeteners Which makes them six to eight smart points apiece. That's a lot for a little bar So this is probably not a bar that I would purchase and based on the double dip of sugar and the smart points I would give it a four out of 10 and lastly I ventured over to my refrigerated section and found two bars that I wanted to share with you The first bar. I'm going to taste test at the end. I'm really excited. This is the I think it's pronounced Oh, hi or oh, he it's oh hi bar you guys the ingredients Oh Fabulous in this bar you find this in the refrigerated section of your natural grocer store literally Perfect ingredients. I want to taste test it because I want to know if the taste lives up to the ingredients These bars are six to eight smart points So they're a little bit high in points and because of that without tasting it I would give it about a nine out of ten because the ingredients are amazing So stay tuned in just a minute for that taste test And the last bar that I want to talk about is another bar that I see all over the health weight loss WWE community and that is the perfect bar. This is also found in the refrigerated section So the perfect bar is not 100 perfect. The perfect bar contains sunflower oil Which is not expelor pressed so an oil that I try to avoid other than that the ingredients are decent But where it really like gut punches you is in the smart points the perfect bar is going to cost you 11 Yes, 11 smart points So based on the smart points and the fact that it has that oil in there I would rate this probably a 6 out of 10 I know that perfect bar also makes a kid size bar, but if it still has the sunflower oil That's not expelor pressed It still wouldn't be top notch or a bar that I would reach for even though the smart points would be Expedentially better. So that is it my friend. Whoo. That was a list of protein bars We went through a lot and I have a feeling again This is going to be a very long video But don't leave yet I'm going to taste test five of the protein bars that I shared with you right here on camera We're going to talk about the taste the texture the points and whether I would continue to recommend these bars Now these bars fell on the yes. These are good bars. Good ingredients. Good smart point list So i'm going to taste test them. So let's jump into that So we're going to start our taste test off with the bar that I raved about the ohai ohi bar We're going to try this. So this is the super green bar again This is the one that's found in the refrigerated section It has 270 calories really really good ingredients plant-based gluten-free grain-free non-gmo Let's try it. So i'm a little nervous I'm wondering if it's green It is It's great. Well, it's not green, but it has like a little bit of a green tinge to it. Can you guys see that? Looks really good. Go full of good stuff. Let's try it. Oh, wow This oh This is really Delicious I really taste the nuts the sweetness from the dates. Hmm. This is amazing. Oh my goodness Yum next up is the garden of life bar the other one I kind of raved about only five smart point This is the s'mores garden of life bar. It's organic non-gmo has 14 grams of fiber one gram of sugar And it's plant-based. So let's try this Let me show you what it looks like. Oh, that's awesome. Look at that So there's the bar itself so it has a chocolate base and kind of that like nutty caramel coating taste-wise It's a little gritty a little sandy the actual like bar part not the chocolate part but the bar part It's a little grainy a little sandy. I was trying to figure out what I could compare it to as far as like that another bar But I can't really think of a good comparison. I mean, it's good It doesn't really have a lot of aftertaste a very very small amount But I mean overall for the point value and the ingredients I it's it's pretty good I would probably repurchase this but I really love that oh oh high bar But I would probably repurchase this as well So next up is the go-raw bar So I told you guys I am not a huge fan of all the go-raw products that I've tried in the past But this one is the pumpkin seed bar. It just has five ingredients. I love that organic non-gmo vegan dairy-free nut-free soy-free So what is in this bar is sprouted pumpkin seeds sprouted flax seeds dates Raw agave nectar and salt. So that's it So hopefully this bar is better than some of the go-raw products that I've tried in the past because like I said, I haven't loved them So here's what the bar looks like. Look at that. It's tons and tons of nuts and seeds Here for that. So let's try this. This one is huge. This one's probably more points I had my husband pick these up for me since I can't really leave and I think he may have gotten the bigger one But regardless, we're we're looking at the ingredients Okay Way to go go-raw. This is actually pretty darn good Sweetness comes from the dates the nuts give it a nice crunch The only thing I don't love about it is the texture Not the texture, but it leaves kind of a Slimy film on your tongue and I don't know what that comes from. I mean, it's not terrible But that would be my one criticism But this is actually really good. So thumbs up on this one go-raw Next up is the epic bar. So this is the epic bar rise and grind And this one literally just has chicken egg yolks and apple And it has 13 grams of protein. So you can see it's a very like a meat bar So I'm excited to try this one. I really like the epic other meat bars that I've tried So here it goes. Um, it smells really good It's very dry. It's very salty And yeah, it reminds me of beef jerky a lot, but it's so dry and salty I just don't love it. I think I like some of the other epic products that I've had I don't love this and I know that these are kind of expensive. They're great in ingredients great in smartphones, but It's just not I don't love it Lastly, I'm going to try the purely Elizabeth chocolate and sea salt granola bar So these sound really really good three grams of protein six grams of sugar non-gmo gluten free vegan So let's pop one of these out and give this one a try My husband said that he had to buy a box of four that they didn't sell them individually So again, I think he may have gotten the wrong bar. I think I was more apt for the protein bar But that's okay. We're gonna try this. Um, this is what it looks like Looks really really good actually. So let's try it and see if we like it I do like their granola a lot and they generally have really really good ingredient So that's what it looks like. So it's a very granola-y chocolatey. I mean, it looks really really good Oh my goodness D Delicious. Mm So good Really great chocolate flavor Little hint of salt cinnamon. Um, yes, please if you're looking for a granola bar Absolutely absolutely pick up the purely Elizabeth. This is amazing. So that is it my friends for this protein bar Review video. Holy moly. Did we have a lot of protein bars? 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