You're listening to The Digest This Podcast, and I'm your host, Bethany Cameron.

PepsiCo is announcing that they are coming out with a prebiotic soda, and just FYI, they bought

Poppy. So PepsiCo owns the Poppy drink now. And Nutella Maker Ferreiro just bought up cereal giant

Kellogg for $3.1 billion. That's billion with a bee. So there's a lot of things happening in the

food world and I think a lot of us aren't even aware, but I'm here to kind of break it down

if you want to even call it that and just let you know what's happening because you may be

shocked. I'm not a fan of most protein bars. They contain fillers, stevia, and or monk fruit

or weird sweeteners like agave or brown rice syrup, and not to mention hard to digest

ingredients such as seeds. And don't even get me started on all the bars that contain inalin,

aka prebiotics, claiming it will help your gut, but inaline actually causes gut upsets and

bloating. And if you do find a clean protein bar,

the protein content is typically under 12 grams and it's not even a complete protein. Enter

equip foods new grass-fed protein bars. This is the first grass-fed beef protein bar that actually tastes like

dessert, delivering 20 grams of complete protein, 9 grams of healthy fats, and contains ingredients

like colostrum to help support your gut. No way, milk solids, seed oils, leithetons, fiber

syrups, or gluten. These bars are third party tested for

heavy metals, microplastics, glyphosate, and other contaminants commonly found in other protein bars.

Equipped foods has two different flavors, chocolate and mixed berry. And the icing on the cake

is that neither flavors melt. So you can pack them

in your kids' lunch, your own lunch, toss them in your gym or work bag, and keep some in the car

for those emergencies we all are too familiar with when we are stuck in traffic. There's no natural

flavors, no stevia or monk fruit, flavored with real

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