Bars, Nutrition, and Cost

[Greg Mihalik]

Kevin,
Over in "Rank the Bars" you asked why ProBars aren't a favorite. I can tell you why they're
not My favorite –

The first ingredient is sugar. The bars are ~45% fat. They cost $1/ounce.

PowerBar's Harvest line, for instance, has Oats first, Fat is ~18%, and cost is ~$0.50/oz.

Complex carbs are easily digested "on the run" versus fats. In half a ProBar you get about 100 calories of carbs and 80 of fat. Hiking at 300 calories per hour (and sometime a Lot more) you are operating in "deficit mode".

RTFM should be RTFL – Read The Friken' Lable ;-)

YMMV

[Cayenne Redmonk]

If 20 grams of a serving is fat, and the serving is 80 grams, then 40% fat is an over estimate of the fat content.
Its only 40% of calories from fat, slightly different than 40% fat.

[Greg Mihalik]

In Calories from the top of the label –

170/370 = 45%
160/370 = 43%

…or at least that's what my calculator shows.

edit: corrected Total Calories values

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