I hate how much artificial sweetener is in everything. Not sure what you are confused about. Your friend wants her kid to avoid it. We allow some of it but I can respect those who try to avoid it.

Just eat real food.

Anonymous wrote:People in this country are so wrongly obsessed with protein, the average Western diet has plenty, even for an athlete. If she's really that concerned, there are lots of whole foods with protein: edamame, nuts, eggs, beans and lentils, yogurt, and cottage cheese.Not to mention meats for those who eat them. Peanut butter also has protein but can be high in sugar if eating in excess.

Protein is just the flavor of the week. It will eventually lose steam and people will get obsessed with something else. Medium chain fatty acids or personalized nutrition or prebiotics - who knows.

People were similarly obsessed with avoiding fat in the 80’s. Margarine was thought to be healthier than butter. Everything was labeled “fat free/low fat” so people ate wow potato chips with olestra and suffered explosive diarrhea, and chose sugary fat free foods. Now we have swung to carb free, protein heavy. It won’t last forever. Just eat balanced meals and snacks, everyone.

People in this country are so wrongly obsessed with protein, the average Western diet has plenty, even for an athlete. If she's really that concerned, there are lots of whole foods with protein: edamame, nuts, eggs, beans and lentils, yogurt, and cottage cheese.Not to mention meats for those who eat them. Peanut butter also has protein but can be high in sugar if eating in excess.

She doesn’t know anything about food and nutrition and is used to giving her kids crap to eat and now her crutch is broken.

Peanut butter
Nuts
Eggs
Cheese
Black beans
Chicken/turkey

My kid swims and gets plenty of protein.
2 eggs with 2 slices of WG toast is 24g. That’s her breakfast most days.

Why not just go for yogurt? Fage is full of protein

The rule of thumb is to add a 0 to the grams of protein in a food. If that new number = more than the calories, it’s a good source of protein. For many of these protein bars, there’s maybe 8-10 grams of protein in a 180-210 calorie bar. So they are not actually good sources of protein AND they’re full of chemicals.

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Anonymous wrote:It truly is hard to find foods with extra protein that don't contain a ton of sugar, or artificial sugars. Kind bars have more sugar than protein. Evolve shakes have stevia. My meat-hating, picky kid definitely struggles to get protein. We do a lot of dairy and eggs which is fine for now but as she gets older she'll need to branch out.

Are you looking at the breakfast bars? Because this is not true of the protein bars.

I was thinking of the "breakfast protein" bars, becuase that's what I currently have on hand. 8g protein, 10g sugar.

I'm not totally anti sugar at all, but I find that the sugar is consistently more than the protein. Everyone has their own nutritional needs and preferences, and for my own kid, I'm always in search of food with more protein than sugar.

Anonymous wrote:She could bake her own protein bars.

+1

I don't do it now, but there are many recipes out there.