I’m a fan of nutrition bars, especially nutrition bars with chocolate in them, so when I was offered a chance to try a sample of the new Odwalla Chocolate Chip Trail Mix Bar of course I said yes.

The new Odwalla Chocolate Chip Trail Mix Bar, hitting stores this month, has yummy chocolate chips mixed in with rolled oats, peanuts, raisins, coconut, and sunflower seeds.
I love nutrition bars for a quick take along snack, because they travel well where many healthy snacks don’t. These bars have antioxidants including, Vitamins A, C, & E plus folic acid and calcium. They were definitely …read more

A new probiotic bar said to contain 10x more live culture than yogurt has been released to the market. Pop Culture Probiotic Bars contain GanedenBC30(TM), a patented probiotic strain that can survive baking and manufacturing processes, remain viable even if unrefrigerated, and –take this– withstand the acidic stomach environment. Apparently, the secret lies on the bacteria being protected by a “naturally-occurring hardened shell of organic material”.
I can’t find information on what bacteria they are using (would be good to know what they’re putting in your food, wouldn’t it?) and what this organic material shell is made of. If this …read more