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Living Fuel Antioxidant Powders and Bars

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

living fuel superberry ultimate powder

Living Fuel makes a line of products that have a crazy amount of nutritious things in them.

Living Fuel products contain the most potent, bioavailable, and highest quality nutritional ingredients including freeze-dried organic fruits and vegetables that are rich, natural sources of antioxidants.  The harmonious blend of these active ingredients provides diverse and balanced antioxidant protection – more so than other popular antioxidants.

I had a chance to try two of them (thanks to a nice offer from Beth) and I’m feeling all of the healthier for it.

SuperBerry Ultimate is a purplish powder that can be combined with water, juice, or milk, or mixed into a smoothie.  I tried mine two ways: with water and mixed into a smoothie with banana and blueberries.  I liked it both ways (the fruit compounds make the powder relatively sweet itself) but I would say that the smoothie was my preference.

CocoChia Snack Bars are sweet bars combined mostly of coconut, chia seeds and almond butter.  I thought it was really tasty and definitely different than most other bars.  This bar reminded me of an Almond Joy candy bar.

Check out the Living Fuel website for more information on their products including ingredient lists, nutrition facts and recipe videos.

KIND Bars: Non-granola bars

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

So many bars have granola in them I tend to think of them all as “granola bars.”

KIND bars, however, are non-granola bars.  They’re fruit and nut (and sometimes frosting!) bars.

Charlie was KIND enough to send me some to sample (sorry, couldn’t help it).  I’ll rank my top three flavorites (yup, sorry):

1. Passion Fruit Macadamia

Passion Fruit Macadamia has a very strong passion fruit flavor, which is tropical and a little pucker-inducing… in a good way (in my opinion at least).  This KIND bar is also enhanced with Vitamin B.

2. Fruit & Nuts in Yogurt

The yogurt is really like frosting which makes this bar dessert-like and delicious.   The nuts and fruits are in large pieces.  It’s gluten free and wheat free.

3. Walnut & Date

Anyone who loves dates and walnuts will love this bar.  Sweet in that wonderfully natural date-y way.

A lot more information (and likely better descriptions) at KINDsnacks.com.  KIND lovers can also check out the frequent-buyer Advantage program.