Thursday, January 22, 2009

Granola Bars

What's with all the hype around healthy food bars (Odwalla bars, Luna bars, etc)? Are they really that much healthier than an average (and less expensive) granola bar?

One of your classmates sent in this question. Let's compare a few!!

ODWALLA



Ingredients are for Odwalla Superfood Bar, ingredients will vary with flavor:
Grape Juice Concentrate, Dates, Raisins, Dried Bananas, Organic Rolled Oats, Organic Diced Dried Bananas (Bananas, Rice Flour), Oat Bran, Rice Syrup, Dried Unsulfured Unsweetened Coconut, Brown Crisp Rice (Rice Flour, Rice Bran, Rosemary Extract), Soy Butter (Soybeans, Soybean Oil, Salt), Vegetable Glycerine, Barley Flour, Oat Flour, Mango, Apple Juice (Apple Juice Concentrate, Water, Ascorbic Acid), Natural Vanilla Flavor, Spirulina, Calcium Carbonate, Soy Lecithin, Baking Soda (Aluminum Free), Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Folic Acid


LUNA




QUAKER



Ingredients

GRANOLA (WHOLE GRAIN ROLLED OATS, BROWN SUGAR, CRISP RICE [RICE FLOUR, SUGAR, SALT, MALTED BARLEY EXTRACT], WHOLE GRAIN ROLLED WHEAT, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN AND COTTONSEED OILS* WITH TBHQ AND CITRIC ACID ADDED TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS AND/OR SUNFLOWER OIL WITH NATURAL TOCOPHEROL ADDED TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS, DRIED COCONUT, WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR, SODIUM BICARBONATE, SOY LECITHIN, CARAMEL COLOR, NONFAT DRY MILK), SEMISWEET CHOCOLATE CHIPS (SUGAR, CHOCOLATE LIQUOR, COCOA BUTTER, SOY LECITHIN, VANILLA EXTRACT), CRISP RICE (RICE, SUGAR, SALT, BARLEY MALT), HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, GLYCERIN, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN AND/OR COTTONSEED OIL*, SORBITOL, CALCIUM CARBONATE, SALT, WATER, SOY LECITHIN, MOLASSES, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, BHT (A PRESERVATIVE), CITRIC ACID.

*ADDS A DIETARILY INSIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TRANS FAT

NATURE VALLEY



Ingredients: whole grain rolled oats, sugar, canola oil, crisp rice (rice, flour, sugar, malt, salt), soy protein, honey, brown sugar syrup, high fructose corn syrup, salt, soy lecithin, baking soda, natural flavor, almond flour, peanut flour,. Contains soy, almond and peanut ingredients.


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