So the new big boy on the market is the power crunch bar. all different flavors and pretty dang delicious. High Protein, 5 g of sugar ( not too bad) right? No Sugar Alcohols, great? Seems great right?

Well after ingesting a piece of one at a friends house. I picked up a couple in my local Vitamin shoppe. I mean they looked good, But when i got them home, i gave them to my wife to give out at her place of work. Why? simple. My god they are loaded with FAT! and not even good fat but Saturated fat. Wow. what the heck?

For example the chocolate mint has 13g of fat!!! a whopping 6 grams of saturated fat!! that is 30% of a normal person's daily recommended fat intake on a 2000 calorie diet. For a sleever that is like 29% too much.

Then I realized its the old bait and switch. Lower the sugar and calories, increase the fat for taste. Just like Low fat usually means high sugar.

Don't even get me started on the No sugar added, tagline that other products used.

Fat is not the enemy in my weight loss. Sugar and carbs are. I lose weight eating fat, Protein, veggies and lower carb fruits. I use olive oil, real butter, walnut oil, coconut oil and hazelnut oil.

I think it all depends on what your metabolism seems to like.

There is also a difference between saturated fats and unsaturated fats. bad fats versus good fats. Many of the oils you mentioned are higher in unsaturated fats.

I've been eating a PowerCrunch pretty much every day through my weight loss cycle and now more than a year in successful maintenance. It has not been a problem. It is my go-to "cookie" and helps me keep from making a waayyyy worse choice! Nothing wrong with incorporating it as a high protein treat as long as you're meeting your macros and weight loss goals! But then I've been successful counting nothing but protein (85+g per day) and staying loosely around 1200 calories.