Is it difficult for you to observe the correct diet? There is no way to eat five to six times a day? Are you busy and you don’t even have time to eat? Agree, this happens with almost everyone. In this case, energy bars will come to your aid.
"What is it?" - you ask. Indeed, it is worth explaining in more detail and telling what it is. Energy bars are a product that today is mostly known only to people who are somehow related to sports, because it is athletes who most often need energy recharge during the day, before or after training.
So, first things first. Invented more than twenty years ago in Western countries, energy or, as they are also called, sports bars, began to gain popularity. However, for a long time, for the most part, residents of the United States of America and Europe knew about their existence. To us, as a completely new consumer, this invention came only recently. Noticing the ever-increasing attention of the buyer to this product, domestic manufacturers organized their own production of similar bars (power bar).
Energy bars are small chocolates with special fillers. The composition of the fillers includes dried berries and fruits (dried apricots, dates, prunes and others) as sources of carbohydrates, as well as various nuts that make up the main energy costs. All this mixture, in addition, is rich in micronutrients. Such bars contain not only proteins, fats and carbohydrates, but also a whole complex of vitamins and minerals, so necessary for the human body. This is especially true for athletes whose metabolic rate and, accordingly, the need for micronutrients is much higher.
Energy bars began to be imported into the countries of the former Soviet Union only at the beginning of the 2000s. Initially, this food product was marketed as a food or supplement for athletes, but over time, sales tactics have been revised, and today we can see them not only in sports stores, but also on drugstore shelves and in many grocery stores.
The composition of such bars is very similar to the products of such famous brands as Mars, Snickers and others, which are also high-energy products. It should be noted that the latter contain extremely fast-digesting carbohydrates, which do not provide the body with the energy necessary for a long time. As for the power bar, on the contrary, it contains a high amount of slowly digestible carbohydrates, which are represented by various bran (oat, wheat and others), which provides the body with energy for a long time.
Today they are used not only by athletes to maintain the energy balance of the body or as bars for gaining weight, but are also increasingly used by people who need fast energy recharge during the work day. So, many nutritionists recommend, in the absence of the possibility of a normal meal, replace it with the use of power bar chocolates.
Due to the growing popularity of this product, more and more new variations appear on the market. Today it is not only bars with different tastes, but also bars that perform completely different functions. There are protein bars for athletes and not only - they are used to replenish and restore the level of amino acids in the blood throughout the day, to reduce the activity of catabolic reactions. There are also fat burning bars containing high levels of carnitine, which contributes to active weight loss.