The only thing "Perfect" about the Zone Perfect bars (any of them) is that they are the perfect examples of what NOT to eat if your intentions are to eat healthy...
Listed below is the ingredients off a package of one of their All Natural Zone Perfect Classic Nutrition Bars, with all instances of sugar highlight in Blue. Below that is the same ingredients minus those that contain sugar in any way.
"Soy Protein Nuggets (Soy Protein Isolate, Rice Starch), Corn Syrup, Chocolate Flavored Coating (Sugar, Fractionated Palm Kernel Oil, Cocoa Powder, Whey Powder, Nonfat Milk Powder, Soy Lecithin, Natural Vanilla Flavor), Soy Protein Isolate, Whey Protein Concentrate, Yogurt Drops (Evaporated Cane Juice, Fractionated Palm Kernel Oil, Nonfat Milk, Nonfat Yogurt Powder [Cultured Nonfat Milk], Soy Lecithin, Lactic Acid Powder [Modified Corn Starch, Lactic Acid], Natural Flavor), Coconut, High Oleic Sunflower Oil And/Or High Oleic Safflower Oil, Glycerine, Macadamia Brittle Pieces (Sugar, Macadamia Nuts, Butter, Corn Syrup, Baking Soda, Natural Vanilla Flavor And Salt). Less Than 2% Of The Following: Fructose, Sugar, Natural Flavors."
(ingredients without sugar)
"Soy Protein Nuggets (Soy Protein Isolate, Rice Starch), Soy Protein Isolate, Whey Protein Concentrate, Coconut, High Oleic Sunflower Oil And/Or High Oleic Safflower Oil, Glycerine."
There are three giant industries in this country that shape our food industry for their own greedy intentions; Corn Soy and Dairy, and it's obvious from the ingredients in this "health bar" that these industries govern what food manufactures use as "healthy ingredients". As you can see from the drastically reduced ingredients, without sugar (corn) you are left with Soy and Whey (Dairy), oh and some coconut oil... yum! Now that's one tasty nutritional bar.
Please do yourself a favor and don't be fooled by what "they" (any large food manufacturer) portrays as healthy, instead eat what you know is healthy... Organic fresh locally grown fruits and vegetables, natural whole grains and legumes, and organic grass-fed / free-range beef and poultry.
It's your health, take control of it!
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