The success of diet bars can be traced back to two important characteristics:
- The practicality, since they can be consumed anywhere at any time without having to prepare the meal or snack the previous evening. Easily transportable in your bag or car, the bars are undoubtedly more practical than frozen foods and even faster than fast food.
- The adjective diet that for many is synonymous with weight loss.In the common imagination, bars are in fact much healthier foods than traditional snacks, both in terms of quantity and quality.
Both of these aspects fit perfectly with the needs of modern society, where physical appearance is very important. The frenetic rhythms imposed by the current lifestyle also tend to steal time even for the simplest gestures, such as eating. Everything. this explains the growing diffusion of these foods which is associated with a real business in the sector in which sales and earnings come before the health of the consumer.
At the same time, the production of dietary bars has passed from an exclusively pharmaceutical sector to a market in which both the increasingly widespread supplement companies and the companies themselves, which have always produced high-calorie snacks, find space.
Today it is possible to choose between numerous types of bars with completely different tastes and characteristics, however, for the average consumer it is not so easy to orientate in the purchase of the best products.
weight generally varies from 45 to 120 grams per serving. They are used to replace a complete meal and for this reason they contain or should contain all the various nutrients (carbohydrates, proteins, fats, minerals and vitamins) in the right proportions. The presence of fiber is also very important, as it gives the food a greater satiating power.
These bars are very useful for those who want to respect the calorie constraint imposed by the diet. Their ease of use associated with a fixed calorie content can make them a substitute for the restaurant or company canteen. In fact, eating away from home runs the risk of running into high-calorie foods prepared using condiments capable of improving their palatability (butter, cream, oils, etc.).
were born in the sports field to ensure an effective energy supply in competition or during training. Their use is useful in all those situations that require a particularly prolonged effort.
Obviously, a sprint runner certainly does not need to discard an energy bar during the 10 seconds or less of the race, a requirement that a cyclist could have during a long cross-country skiing.
Even sedentary people or those who practice sports at an amateur level should refrain from buying this particular type of bars. In fact, they are foods very rich in carbohydrates and in particular in maltodextrins which increase digestibility but which make the bar very caloric and not very filling.
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Quick Absorption Energy Bars
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Obviously, good quality products have also been introduced on the market and for this reason it is very important to know how to choose.
For example, when you buy a zone bar, you must not only check the ratio between carbohydrates, proteins and fats, but you must also check that it also contains the right amount of polyunsaturated fatty acids.
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