Energy bars

Is it difficult for you to observe the correct diet? Can not eat five to six times a day? Are you busy with work and no time even to grab a bite? Agree, this is almost all. In this case, you will come to the aid of energy bars.

"What is it?" - you ask. And really, it is worth to explain in more detail and tell what it is. Energy bars - a product that today is familiar for the most part only to people who are somehow connected with sports, because it is the athletes who most often require energy make-up during the day, before or after training.

So, about everything in order. Invented more than twenty years ago in Western countries, energy, or, as they are called, sports bars, began to gain popularity. However, for a long time, their existence was known, for the most part, by the inhabitants of the United States of America and Europe. To us, as a completely new consumer, this invention has come quite recently. Noticing the constantly growing attention of the buyer to this product, domestic producers organized their own production of similar bars (power bar).

Energy bars are small chocolates with special fillers. Fillers include dried berries and fruits (dried apricots, dates, prunes and others) as sources of carbohydrates, as well as various nuts that make up the basic 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 who have a much higher metabolic rate and, correspondingly, a need for micronutrients.

Energy bars began to be imported to the countries of the former Soviet Union only at the beginning of the 2000s. Initially, this food product was positioned on the market as a food or supplement for athletes, but over time, sales tactics were revised, and today we can see them not only in sports stores, but also on drug store shelves and in many grocery stores.

In their composition, these bars are 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 give the body the energy necessary for a long time. As for the power bar, it, on the contrary, contains a high amount of slow-digesting carbohydrates, which are represented by various bran (oat, wheat and other), 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 weight gain, but are increasingly being used by people who need fast energy feeding during the working day. So, many nutritionists recommend, in the absence of the possibility of a normal meal, replace it with a chocolate bar called power bar.

In connection with the growing popularity of this product, the market appears more and more of its variations. 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 during the day, to reduce the activity of catabolic reactions. There are also fat-burning bars containing a high level of carnitine, which promotes active weight loss.