Brand: CLIFBar
Product: Kit’s Organic Fruit + Nut Bar – Peanut Butter
Weight: 1.8z / 50g
Cost: $1.50/per from manufacturer
Stats
Calories: 200
Total Fat: 11g, Sat. Fat 2g, Polyunsaturated Fat 4g, Monounsaturated Fat 5g
Cholesterol: 0g
Sodium: 95mg
Potassium: 320mg
Total Carb: 25g
Fiber: 4g
Sugars: 15g
Protein: 6g
Protein per ounce: 3.33g
Protein, Cost per gram: $0.25
Carb to Protein Ratio: 4.16-1
Vit A: 0% DV
Vit C: 0% DV
Calcium: 2% DV
Iron: 4% DV
Organic, gluten free, soy free, dairy free, and vegan.
Not made in a gluten free facility.
Flavor:
Much like the Simple Squares I reviewed for posts three and eleven, the Kit’s Organic bar is amazingly simple and manages to have even fewer ingredients. This bar is nothing but dates, peanuts, almonds, and sea salt. The peanuts and dates take over the front half of the flavor profile and the almonds and salt round it out and give this very simple bar a lot of complexity. While the protein wasn’t all that high compared to most of the bars I have reviewed it is well costed and comes from macrobiotic sources (though the product isn’t labeled as such). The Kit’s Organic bar has a high amount of potassium which is good for people like me who are prone to cramps and need lots of potassium in our diet, especially around working out.
I like CLIF bar because they tell you how much poly and monounsaturated fat is in the bar; most of the other bars I reviewed contained comparable amounts but few brands actually record it. Poly and monounsaturated fats are the so-called good fats, though there is some debate over how good a diet high in monounsaturated fat is; to simplify things, it depends on your lifestyle and demographics, talk to your doctor for a better description of the various types of fats.
This would be a great protein bar for bringing to Burning Man because it has nothing to melt and every ingredient is self-stable, meaning this will never need refrigeration ever, even in the crazy heats of the Black Rock Desert. While this bar itself isn’t anything terribly special it would make a great base recipe for making your own protein bars (a teaser of things to come on this blog).
Well Suited For Life 