Diet Food Reviews

PowerBar Pria Mint Chocolate Cookie Bar

By: Tanya Patrice | Apr 5, 2005

According to the label, PowerBar Pria is, "specially formulated to help fuel active women's lifestyles without weighing them down." Well I tested this out by eating it right before I went to the gym. I was going to be working out for a total of 2 hours, with an hour of cardio exercise from step aerobics and then an hour of a weights and muscle strengthening class called BodyPumP. I was hoping this 'energy/power bar' would give me some extra pep for step aerobics, and some extra power for BodyPump.

This Mint Chocolate Cookie bar is covered in chocolate. It's very crunchy, mint chocolatey and sweet. I had to check out the sugar content because no way was I going to eat the entire thing if it had more than 20 grams of sugar - but surprise, surprise - this only has 5 grams! I was shocked and pleased. I must say though that the chocolate is covering up an awful greyish color bar. Pay that no attention though - not everything that's good for you looks good on the inside.

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PowerBar Pria Mint Chocolate Cookie Bar also provides at least 15% of 23 vitamins and minerals, in addition to 110 calories, 3.5 grams of total fat, 2.5 grams of which is saturated fat, and 5 grams of protein, but only 1 gram of fiber.

Well, I barely made it through my aerobics class and I don't think I had any extra power in my muscle conditioning class, so I'm not sure that this 'power bar' gave me any extra energy or power. Yet, I liked the taste, and with 110 calories and '23 vitamins and minerals', I could probably use this as a snack, but not a meal replacement since it is not filling at all. It is priced at around $1.00 per bar if you buy a box of 15.

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