Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up. My name is Ben Greenfield, and I'm the Get Fit Guy. I recently published a short article called Is Your Protein Bar Healthy, in which I warned about unhealthy ingredients found in many popular protein

bars. These ingredients included high fructose corn syrup, fractionated palm kernel oil, canola

oil, hydrogenated fats, artificial sweeteners like sucralose and acetyl phamy potassium,

wheat, lots of rice or other refined sugars like cane syrup, and sugar alcohols like

maltitol, xylitol, sorbitol, lactatol, manitol, and erythritol. I'll link to that article in the show

notes if you want to geek out on some of those ingredients a little bit more. And then later on,

in a follow-up episode entitled Is Your Protein Bar Healthy

Part 2, I expounded on why you need to moderate the amount of sugar alcohols in your diet,

even if they're from healthy sources like protein bars. Well, since then, I've been receiving lots of

questions from Get Fit Guy fans who are eager to know which protein bars that I personally use or

recommend. So in today's episode, you're going to learn which protein bars are the healthiest

how to choose the right protein bar for your needs and get recommendations for some of the

better protein bars out there. As you learned in part one of this series, and again I'll link to that, it's important

to choose a protein bar that doesn't have high amounts of additives, preservatives, and

extra ingredients.

So beginning with two options that you may not traditionally think of as protein bars,

but that certainly fit that same nutritional bill.

Here are my top recommendations. Number one, Pemakin. Now, it may take you by surprise to see this

relatively uncommon food source listed as a protein bar, but with its extremely high levels of

appetite satiating healthy fats mixed with high quality amino acids,

I just couldn't write about protein bars without including pemmican, which is actually a bit more like a tube than a bar,

but still extremely portable and a very good option as a pre-orpost workout snack.

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