USANA Peanut Butter Snack Bar
Snacking between mealtimes can keep your fuel up for the work you have to do. But the wrong snacks can set you back in your health goals. That’s why finding wholesome snacks is so important. A delicious and nutritious USANA Peanut Butter Snack Bar can be the perfect munchie on a tiring afternoon when you’re low on energy and can’t wait for dinner time to refuel. The best part is that the peanut butter snack will help you keep your weight management efforts up.
USANA Peanut Butter Bar is made of a blend of high-quality ingredients that is delicious and wholesome without seeming so. Just throw a few bars into your bag and head out to work, knowing that if you get hungry in the afternoons, you’re covered.
Each Peanut Butter Bar is packed with the following benefits:
- a maximum of 110 calories that fill you up with wholesome nutrients without breaking your weight management regime
- on-the-go snacking that you can carry with you wherever you go
- fibre that will support your body’s digestive functions
- healthy, wholesome ingredients including apple cider vinegar powder with all its benefits.
The ingredients in each bar as as follows:
- Gluten free oats
- Peanuts
- Peanut butter
- Peanut Oil
- Peanut flour
- Apple Cider Vinegar powder
Your three meals a day may not be enough to keep your body satiated all day, especially on stressful workdays. A peanut butter bar or two can help you power through the low energy phases of the day and you won’t have to battle your cravings any more.
Peanut Butter as a Healthy Snack for when you’re Craving
When we’re struck by craving between meals, the natural instinct is to reach for unhealthy foods like chocolate or sugary foods that will give us an instant boost of energy (read, sugar). But on the other side of the snacking is the blood sugar crash that follows after and tires us out again. Nutritious snacks like peanut butter have been studied extensively to find out how healthy they are. The results are encouraging.
One study reports peanuts are a rich source of healthy compounds like phenolic acids, resveratrol, flavanoids, and phytosterols that help to block cholesterol from the foods you eat. This is the reason peanut butter is recommended for heart health, even though it contains some saturated fats. Like olive oils, tofu and other “healthy” foods with some amount of saturated fats, peanut butter also contains a host of wholesome ingredients that makes it healthy overall.
Peanut butter is also full of fibre, vitamins and minerals like potassium, that your body needs to function. There is evidence that people who include peanut butter or peanuts regularly in their diet are less likely to develop type 2 diabetes or heart disease than those who don’t take peanuts.
Low-calorie Bar for Guilt-free Snacking
The USANA Peanut Butter Bar is very low calorie, containing 110 calories in each bar. At the same time, it satisfies your craving and gives you an additional boost of nutrients. It also contains less sugar than most other peanut butter bars, with only 3 mg of sugar in each bar. You can enjoy these bars guilt-free and without any fears of reversing your weight management efforts. The bar is also gluten-free, so it’s easy on your gut.
Nutrition bars tend to be full of processed ingredients and chemical additives. But USANA Peanut Butter Bar only contains natural ingredients that are listed in the ingredients’ list. There are no unnecessary sugars or fillers that make your bar unwholesome. At the same time, there is no compromise on flavour. All nutrition bars are not created equal, but these bars you can rely on to contain good quality ingredients.
The Benefits of Fibre and Apple Cider Vinegar Packed In
The Peanut Butter Bar is filled with fibre from the oats and peanuts, and the benefits of apple cider vinegar. Most of the fibres in oats are soluble, coming from a fibre called beta-glucan. Some insoluble fibres in the form of cellulose, lignin and hemicellulose are also present in oats.
Together, the soluble and insoluble fibers ensure regularity of gut movements and a well-oiled digestive system. Fibers also increase satiation and slow down digestion. You’re likely to be full for longer and feel fewer cravings if your body gets a good amount of fibre.
You may smell something familiar with your snack bar. Apple cider vinegar is packed with health benefits and also has that all familiar aroma. ACV may also provide other health benefits that have made it a household name for thousands of years.
Apple cider vinegar is also been under the spot light for its weight management benefits. In one study, participants who took apple cider vinegar lost more weight and had lower total cholesterol than those who took a placebo. They also had slightly higher levels of HDL or “good cholesterol”. So it smells great, it tastes nice and it helps lose weight – get that in my belly!
Convenient, Flavorful and Non-GMO
Let face it; Peanut butter bars are convenient and enjoyable snacks. But it even get more tempting when they are also non-GMO and vegan-friendly.
You can have them in the afternoons around 3 pm to lift your energy levels or in the mornings before or after working out. If you eat a regular three meals a day, a good time to take a nutrition bar would be mid-morning, around 10 am and one mid-afternoon.
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The Bottomline
Peanut Butter Bars are nutritious and wholesome, full of flavor and has the kind of savory sweet satisfaction that we get from fats in unwholesome snacks. USANA Peanut Butter bars, with healthy ingredients and less sugar than most nutrition bars are convenient, on-the-go snacks for when you’re on your weight management regimen.
Nutrition bars are not meant to be used as meal replacements. In order to stay on top of your weight management goals, time your snacking to the lowest-energy periods of your day. This will help you make the most your body’s metabolism and stop you from getting into an unhealthy cycle of snacking when you’re stressed or snacking too much.
Allergen Statement
†For our customers sensitive to gluten: No gluten-containing ingredients are used in this product. However, Nutrimeal is produced in a facility that manufactures other foods that do contain gluten.
Nutrimeal is produced on equipment that also processes peanuts, tree nuts, eggs, wheat, sesame, and shellfish.