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Gym clothes on a candy bar · 3 min
Protein bars are not a free pass
Twenty grams of protein does not excuse three sweeteners, an emulsifier, and a flavour lab. Some bars are food. Most are a dessert that learned to sit next to a shaker.
Shop the Protein aisleNamed food first
Dates, nuts, egg whites: that’s a keep. Milk protein isolate, polydextrose, sucralose: that’s a factory. Open the protein aisle. The score already did this work.
Sweeteners stack
Sucralose plus stevia plus acesulfame K is a pattern, not a feature. We mark each one. A bar that needs three is hiding from sugar, not from processing.
How to shop it
A delay, a train, a session that ran long — then a bar beats skipping food. The rest of the week, yogurt, eggs, leftovers. If the wrapper looks like a nightclub, the list will too. Scan it.
