'Eat Natural' cereal bars...

hopper1
hopper1 Posts: 4,389
edited May 2010 in The bottom bracket
I eat a lot of cereal bars, and usually you can see what they provide (RDA, etc...) on the box/wrapper.
Now, maybe my eyes are gettying worse, but I have scoured every inch of the box and the wrappers, and there's no info, other than ingredients on the box.
What are the rules on providing this info?
Are they getting dispensation, just beacause they say the bars are all natural?
They are fcuking gorgeous though!... Especially the Almond & Apricot one :D
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  • LittleB0b
    LittleB0b Posts: 416
    What's in the bars?
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  • Ands
    Ands Posts: 1,437
    hopper1 wrote:
    I eat a lot of cereal bars, and usually you can see what they provide (RDA, etc...) on the box/wrapper.
    Now, maybe my eyes are gettying worse, but I have scoured every inch of the box and the wrappers, and there's no info, other than ingredients on the box.
    What are the rules on providing this info?
    Are they getting dispensation, just beacause they say the bars are all natural?
    They are fcuking gorgeous though!... Especially the Almond & Apricot one :D
    Totally delicious! They were on offer at Tesco a while back - 2 for £1
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  • hopper1
    hopper1 Posts: 4,389
    Thank you, LittleB0b, much appreciated.
    Now, after seeing the fat content, I'll never touch another.... Bugger!

    Off to trawl the aisles, again... :roll:
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  • Bunneh
    Bunneh Posts: 1,329
    I did get the Morrison's own brand Eat Smart cereal bars, found the cranberry ones lovely. Never check the dietary information although I recall there being 67 calories in each bar.
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    The Jordans Frusili red berries ones are pretty good
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  • guilliano
    guilliano Posts: 5,495
    I do love a good cereal bar...... but I also like Tracker bars which aren't so good.

    Never bother to look at ingredients or nutritional info, I just eat what I fancy
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  • afcbian
    afcbian Posts: 424
    I use the Natural ones all the time
    Lovely, easy to eat on the go and not full of processed rubbish.
    The high fat content I think is due to the high proportion of nuts in the bars. Maybe someone can confirm this ?
    No point looking for a bar with low calorific value as it won't provide you with any fuel :roll:
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  • toab
    toab Posts: 7
    Who's tried the new marmite cerial bars? :D:):D:):D:):D

    tasty...
  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    toab wrote:
    Who's tried the new marmite cerial bars? :D:):D:):D:):D

    tasty...

    does that count as trolling?
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  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    Clever Pun wrote:
    The Jordans Frusili red berries ones are pretty good

    +1 I have a box of Jordans red berries in my drawer at work for elevensis. Apple & Cranberry and Blueberry are both good too, The papaya and pineaplle is a bit sweet. Their breakfast bars are good too but are better having been warmed up in your pocket first :P
  • SBezza
    SBezza Posts: 2,173
    hopper1 wrote:
    Thank you, LittleB0b, much appreciated.
    Now, after seeing the fat content, I'll never touch another.... Bugger!

    Off to trawl the aisles, again... :roll:

    The bars are highish in fat because of the nuts, it doesn't mean it is bad fat however, you need to eat good fats in your diet, not the bad fats.

    The yoghurt coated ones are worse, but the ones without yoghurt or chocolate are not that bad
  • pneumatic
    pneumatic Posts: 1,989
    If you want to know what is in a cereal bar, make your own.

    Flapjack is startlingly easy to make out of butter, syrup, oatmeal and whatever else you choose to add (bananas for chewy, apple and sultanas for tasty, spices for interesting.) Count it in, cut it up, work it out.

    www.flapjackrecipe.com

    Simples. :D

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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    +1 to DIY cereal bars.

    But if you're buying then Geobars are pretty good.
  • turkeytickler
    turkeytickler Posts: 640
    The Eat Natural brekky mix is jolly nice too if like me, you cant stomach cereal in the mornings....
  • Gav888
    Gav888 Posts: 946
    I uses to use the Eat Natural, and although they taste lovely they are a bit fatty as you say. Now I use Nutri-grain Blueberry cereal bars.

    http://www.nutri-grain.com/ProductDetai ... roduct=340
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  • onlyonearrow
    onlyonearrow Posts: 157
    afcbian wrote:
    I use the Natural ones all the time
    Lovely, easy to eat on the go and not full of processed rubbish.
    The high fat content I think is due to the high proportion of nuts in the bars. Maybe someone can confirm this ?
    No point looking for a bar with low calorific value as it won't provide you with any fuel :roll:

    The nuts will be a major source of fats in the bars. But looking at the yogurt coated ones, they are much higher is saturated fats ('bad' fats), which suggests a lot of the fat comes from the milk in the yogurt coating.

    So the ones without a coating are 'better' from a nutritional point of view.
    However IMHO the 'cranberries macadamias and dark chocolate' one is the daddy of them all! :lol:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Nakd bars are freakin' gorgeous!!

    Very healthy and recommended by my new nutritionist...
  • Nuggs
    Nuggs Posts: 1,804
    NapoleonD wrote:
    recommended by my new nutritionist...
    We have a contender for most middle class post of the year... :wink:
  • SBezza
    SBezza Posts: 2,173
    NapoleonD wrote:
    Nakd bars are freakin' gorgeous!!

    Very healthy and recommended by my new nutritionist...

    They are nice, if a little expensive, Trek are also very good. The downside is actually finding them in the shops, the local shops that did sell them have stopped, so that is why I have resorted to the Eat Natural bars.
  • garrynolan
    garrynolan Posts: 560
    Gav888 wrote:
    I uses to use the Eat Natural, and although they taste lovely they are a bit fatty as you say. Now I use Nutri-grain Blueberry cereal bars.

    http://www.nutri-grain.com/ProductDetai ... roduct=340



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  • guilliano
    guilliano Posts: 5,495
    Don't care about the fat content....... HobNob flapjack bars are stunning!!!
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  • spanielsson
    spanielsson Posts: 776
    SBezza wrote:
    NapoleonD wrote:
    Nakd bars are freakin' gorgeous!!

    Very healthy and recommended by my new nutritionist...

    They are nice, if a little expensive, Trek are also very good. The downside is actually finding them in the shops, the local shops that did sell them have stopped, so that is why I have resorted to the Eat Natural bars.

    Trek and Nak'd bars are made by the same company, Sainsburys sell them.

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