Not bad! The other bars contained no significant amounts of these nutrients. The Luna Bar provides a decent dose of calcium (35% of your daily needs), iron (30%), folic acid (100%), and vitamin D (15%). Only the Luna Bar came close to this, with 4 grams of fiber. To be considered "high-fiber," a food should have 5 grams of fiber per serving. The Snickers bar had 4 grams and the granola bar, 3 grams. True to its billing as a high-protein food, one Luna Bar has 9 grams of protein - that's up to 20% of an entire day's requirement. However, the salt content was lowest in the Snickers bar.
Again, the Snickers bar was the loser, with its 27 grams of sugar being well above the 11 grams in the granola bar and 10 grams in the Luna Bar. That's roughly twice as much fat as the other two bars, and more than a third of it was unhealthy saturated fat. This means that, gram for gram, the calorie counts were similar. But the serving size of a Snickers bar was larger: 52.7 grams, versus 48 grams for the Luna Bar and 42 grams for the granola bar (both of which were 190 calories per serving). The Snickers bar had the most calories per serving (250). So, I carefully compared the nutritional contents of a Snickers Bar, a Luna Bar (Nutz Over Chocolate, my personal favorite) and, for good measure, a Nature Valley Oats 'n Honey granola bar. I wondered: is my protein bar really a healthier option or is it a lot more like a candy bar than I'd care to admit? We were both eating a rectangular bar coated with chocolate icing. Yet, at first glance, the snack he was enjoying and my quick lunch seemed similar. It made me think about recent studies documenting the deplorable state of the average American diet, and the rising rates of obesity. Across the aisle, I noticed another passenger eating a candy bar. I was traveling by air recently and eating my usual "lunch on the go"-a protein bar and an apple.
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