To give you an answer if protein bars are any good we thought we would nip to our local shop and buy up all the protein bars easily available and mark the on
- Taste
- Cost
- Macros
- Ingredient quality
Giving them an overall mark out of 10.
Lenny&Larry’s protein cookies:
Taste – Good flavour and variety of different flavours to choose from, really dry taste!
Cost - £2.49 really fast and effective for that quick protein gain to help hit daily RDI for protein and the size is bigger than a regular protein bar and won’t find an alternative for much cheaper! - worth the price I’d say.
Macros - The macros aren’t great. The protein could be higher in comparison to a regular protein bar which are 20g(+) in this case the cookie is only 16g and each cookie is 480kcal which is substantial especially when a lot of clients calorie targets are 1500 kcal daily or lower it’s practically a third of your eating for the day wasted on a cookie…
Ingredients - It is very processed and contains a lot of ingredients such as sweeteners, sugars and extracts just like most protein bars which in hindsight makes them quite a controversial topic when it comes to if we should be implementing them into our diets.
Overall 6/10 decent post workout bar but very high cals and fat & sugar content push’s the cals too high
20% fat 4% sat fat
68% carbs 20% sugar
16% protein
Sugars and carbs HIGH
Grenade protein bars:
Taste – Tastes like a chocolate bar!! not as dry as the cookie and a lot easier to eat.
Cost - £2.99 which makes them more expensive than the cookie.
Macros - The macros are better in this bar in comparison to the cookie the protein, energy and healthy fats are higher portions and the sugar is a lot lower (only 1g) and the calories in the bar are only 233kcal which is still a fair amount of calories to be consuming so quickly in such a little bar however it is less than half the calories than the cookie.
Ingredients - Okay… the ingredients in this bar are just all over the show.. soy products. Extracts, sugars, sweeteners, powders - just not real foods. Not really good for the human body to be consuming, again… good for helping hit our daily protein goals but the ingredients really are not that great.
Overall 7/10 too expensive
Fulfil protein bar: only 40 g bar!!
Taste – Tastes great like the Grenade bar, lots of flavours to choose from, not dry, nice and light on stomach.
Cost - £2.85 is the price so more expensive than the cookie but not as expensive as the grenade bar but is the smallest of the three so id say this is the most expensive bar per gram!!!.
Macros - Contains the least amount of calories at 149kcal per bar however the protein is lowest sitting at 14g which for the amount of product your getting is quite a high amount. Has a good amount of healthy fats and has nine different vitamins! Such as Vitamin E, C and B’s.
Ingredients - Just like the other bars this product does consist of sugars, sweeteners, extracts and flavourings however it doesn’t contain as many as the other bars and not in as much of a high concentrate as the other two. It does contain gluten, soy and nuts which is a lot more allergy prone than the other two bars.
Overall 7/10 taste great but super expensive for a 40g bar!!
36% protein
29% carbs
7% sat fat!
Myprotein oat bakes
Taste – Only 2 flavours to choose from, chocolate chip flavour nice not to chocolatey doesn’t leave you with an after taste like some others.
Cost - Working out at around £1 per bar when bought in bulk it’s definitely the most cost effective bar here.
Macros – with 250 cals and 34g carbs the sugars are relatively low 4g that’s about 5% of the bar. Protein is high at 18g the only thing if I’m being picky is the sat fats the bad guys is pretty high!! 4g is quite a lot.
Ingredients - Main ingredient oats, milk protein and sweetener, not as bad a some of the others that have loads and loads of crap ingredients.
Overall 9/10 best out of these x5 in our opinion, cost effective and macros not as bad others
Our winner is the Myprotein oat bake bar. Its the most cost effective bar, tastes great and it macros and ingredients list are the best out of a bad bunch. So if you find yourself reaching for a protein bar in your local shop dont just think they are all the same, check out the macros and ingredients before you purchase.
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