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About This Quiz
Protein supplements have been around longer than most people think. Athletes in Ancient Greece were advised to take in massive quantities of meat while they were training. Of course, they were supposed to drink a lot of wine too, but it's a science, and it takes a while to work these things out. In the early 1900s, bodybuilders were just beginning to learn the benefits of a proper diet to enhance their training and routines. In the 1950s, powdered protein supplements made from egg hit the market. The first legit protein supplement was born.
The problem with bodybuilder protein supplements is that they're kind of intense and gross. No one wants to eat just whey protein. And not everyone wants bodybuilder gains. If you're only trying to be fit, maybe by maintaining an active lifestyle with some trips to the gym or cycling, you don't need 100g of protein a day, right? You want a Clif bar! A Larabar! Or perhaps you prefer a ThinkThin bar that tastes delicious and has chocolate and almonds in it plus more protein than a hamburger!
If you've tried more than your fair share of protein snacks to find the perfect fit for you, let's see how well you can do at identifying them with no wrappers. It's not going to be easy, so bulk up before you head in.
Zone Perfect Fudge Graham
Clif Peanut Butter Banana
That's it - Apple Blueberry
That's It makes their apple blueberry bars with one apple and 20 blueberries in each bar, which seems like a pretty decent haul of fruit overall. In fact, that's the equivalent of two servings of fruit and they have only 100 calories. That's all kinds of healthy!
Panther Bar
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Honey Stinger waffle
Honey Stinger waffles are inspired by waffle vendors who, in Europe, are as common as hot dog or pretzel vendors in North America. They're a favorite snack of people on the go and feature organic honey between a pair of thin waffles.
Luna Lemonzest
Erin Baker's Breakfast Cookie
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NoBake Cookie Co. - Cafe Mocha
Pro Bar Meal Almond Crunch
Lenny and Larry's Complete Cookies - Peanut Butter
Lenny and Larry's Complete Cookies come in a few flavors, including peanut butter. The owners of the company, Lenny and Larry, are self-described gym rats who wanted a protein snack that didn't taste awful, so, in 1993, they set about making one.
Balance Caramel Nut Blast
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Zone Perfect Fudge Graham
Luna Lemonzest
Luna Lemonzest bars fall under the Luna banner, but they're actually made by Clif. The reason for the alternate name is that Luna bars are specifically formulated to meet the nutritional needs of women.
Kind Protein Bars - White Chocolate Cinnamon Almond
Erin Bakers Breakfast Cookie - Caramel Apple
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Kind Maple Glazed Pecan Sea Salt
Clif Peanut Butter Banana
The Clif Peanut Butter Banana bar also comes with some dark chocolate bits, if you're down for that. Clif began selling its energy bars in 1992. Why Clif? It's named after the creator's dad, Clifford.
Think High Protein Bar
Cave Man Protein - Chocolate Salted Caramel
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Balance Caramel Nut Blast
Caramel Nut Blast is a Balance bar that is made to follow the 40-30-30 nutrition principle. What does that mean? That your diet should contain 40% carbohydrates, 30% protein and 30% dietary fat.
The GFB - Chocolate Peanut Butter
Zing
Epic Bar
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Clif Honey Nut One
Zone Perfect Cashew Butter
Bobo's Stuff'd Peanut Butter Oat Bar
The Stuff'd Peanut Butter Oat Bar is one of the Bobo's lineup that, despite what it sounds like, is actually named for a teenage girl, not a farmer or whoever else you might think of when you hear the name "Bobo."
Larabar Almond Butter
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Think Thin Caramel Dark Chocolate
Larabar S'mores
Honey Stinger Chocolate Graham
Caveman Protein Chocolate Salted Caramel
As the name seems to imply, the Caveman Protein Chocolate Salted Caramel Bar is made with Paleo ingredients in 12 different varieties. They also use some ingredients from the "grey area" like dar chocolate.
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Think Thin Raspberry Caramel
Epic Bar
Epic Bars aren't just making protein bars, they make a line of meat bars that include things like Bacon and Egg Yolk Bars, Bison Bacon Cranberry, Venison Sea Salt Pepper, and Lamb Currant Mint.
Larabar Cashew Crunch
GoMacro Sweet Rejuvenation
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Honey Stinger Oat Honey Crisp
Larabar Super Plus Cookie
NoBake Cookie Co. Honey Nut Butter
Erin Baker's Breakfast Cookie Caramel Apple
Erin Baker's Breakfast Cookie dates back to 1994 when Erin, the founder, started whipping up cookies in her kitchen. Within two years, she sold her car to buy a commercial oven and expanded into what has become a pretty massive company.
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Honey Stinger Organic Energy Chews
Honey Stinger produces a pretty extensive line of fruit energy chews, some of which push the limits of what you might reasonably call fruit, like their caffeinated cherry cola flavor which, of course, also has caffeine.
Larabar Fruit Drops
Clif Bloks Energy Chews
Think Thin Fruit and Protein
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Pro Bar Meal Almond Crunch
The GFB Chocolate Peanut Butter
The GFB Chocolate Peanut Butter Bar comes from The GFB company, which stands for "Gluten-Free Bar." Every product they make is certified gluten-free because the brothers who founded it can't eat gluten and wanted to create some tasty stuff for people like them.
Quest Protein Bar
Kind Maple Walnut Bar
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Larabar Peanut Butter Cookie
Larabar is pretty well known for limiting its ingredients to just the essentials, and its peanut butter cookie bar is no different. It's made with peanuts, dates and sea salt.There may not technically be a lot of "cookie" in there, but that's OK.
Think Almond Fudge
Clif Pomegranate Cashew Crunch
Luna Protein Pack
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Larabar White Chocolate Macadamia
Think Thin Cinnamon Bun
Clif Kid Z Bar Iced Oatmeal Cookie
Clif Kid Z Bars are tweaked a little from the average Clif Bar to contain carbs, fiber, protein and fat. They are full-on nutrition bombs that come with cinnamon and vanilla icing that kids love!
CaveMan Breakfast Bar
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Clif Chocolate Power
Epic Chocolate Nut Bar
Panther Bar
Zing Bar
The point of the Zing Bar is to take advantage of what they call the vitality triangle: good fats, high protein and carbs. The company was founded by four registered dieticians.
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Epic Bar
RX Bar chocolate sea salt
NuGO dark chocolate coconut
Pressed by KIND Mango Apple Chia
Apple mango chia is one of the flavors made by Pressed by KIND. Based out of New York, KIND has been making healthy snack bars since 2004 and has eight product lines. Pressed is just one of them. By the way, the FDA initially denied the company's request to call their products "healthy," but later reversed its decision.
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Larabar Almond Butter
Clif High Protein Cashew Crunch
Tiger's Milk Peanut Butter Crunch
Tiger's Milk bars have been around for decades, even though several companies have bought the brand. The bars were voted one of only six "edible" energy bars in a test of 30 different brands by American Way magazine.
Panther Bar
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Health Warrior Cinnamon Spice Bar
Health Warrior is the result of the work of three college friends who graduated and realized they needed better quality snacks to keep them energized. Their product is jacked full of chia seeds as the main ingredient.
Zone Perfect Trail Mix Bar
Pro Bar Meal Brazil Nut Crunch
Think Thin Almond Butter Blast
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Think Protein Chews
Larabar Fruit Chews
Clif Bloks Energy Chews
Clif Bloks Energy Chews come in about nine different flavors, from the standard stuff you'd expect like orange and black cherry, to things that are a little more exotic, like margarita and salted watermelon.
Honey Stinger Organic Energy Chews
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Clif Bar Peppermint Bark
Zone Perfect Fudge Graham
Zone Perfect bars comply with the Zone Diet which is based around a low carbohydrate approach to nutrition. Zone Perfect bars work on the 40-30-30 principle. One of their fudge graham bars has 8% of your daily carb requirements and 28% of your protein needs.
Think Thin Coconut Caramel
Kind Maple Walnut Crunch
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Larabar Chocolate Graham
Zing Bar
Quest Protein Bar Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
Quest Nutrition doesn't just make a chocolate chip cookie dough protein bar, they also crank out a line of thin-crust pizzas, cookies, protein chips, shakes, and straight-up protein powder.
Epic Performance Peanut Butter
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Luna Protein Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
The Luna Protein Chip Cookie Dough Bar is produced under one of the banners Clif uses. Luna Bars hit the scene in 1999 and were the first line of protein bars specifically marketed to women.
Think Thin Cashew Butter
Pro Bar Meal Bar
GoMacro Oat and Caramel
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Think Thin Chocolate Chia
Caveman Brownie Thins
Larabar Gingerbread Crunch
Epic Peanut Butter Performance Bar
The Epic Peanut Butter Performance Bar has a pretty simple list of ingredients that are plastered across the label in large print, so they're easy to see. Thea are peanut butter, peanut oil, egg whites, sea salt and dates.
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NuGO Peanut Butter Crumble
GoMacro Sweet Rejuvenation
The "macro" part of the GoMacro Sweet Rejuvenation Cashew Butter Bar refers to macrobiotics. The company's founder, after being diagnosed with breast cancer, opted to try to fight the disease with a plant-based macrobiotic diet that inspired the recipes.
Think Protein Crunch
Larabar Peanut and Pecan
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NoGo Healthy Oats and Walnut
Epic Oatmeal and Caramel
Larabar Pecan Butter
Premier Protein Salted Caramel
Premier Protein is not joking around with their bars as they offer up nearly 50% more protein than most other high-end protein bars and up to four times as much as some others. The chief ingredients are soy and whey protein.
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No-Bake Cookie Co. Cafe Mocha
The Cafe Mocha cookie from the No-Bake Cookie Company came into being as a treat at a family deli. In 2011, owner Caroly Healy presented her no-bake cookies to Nordstrom, and the rest is history.
Honey Stinger Trail Mix
Premier Protein Macaroon
Think Thin Coconut Chocolate
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Think Protein Almond
KIND Maple Glazed Pecan Sea Salt
The maple glazed pecan sea salt bar is made by KIND, a company that was founded by Daniel Lubetzky. In 2015, President Barack Obama and Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker selected Lubetzky to be a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship.
Larabar Power Crunch
Quest Ultimate Protein Nut
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CaveMan Double Chocolate Protein
Pro Bar Cookie Bites
Larabar Choco Bites
Think Thin Protein Cakes Chocolate
Think Thin's chocolate protein cakes come in two packs. The company makes a variety of products for different lifestyles, including Keto products that are certified by the Paleo Foundation.
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Balance Graham and White Chocolate
Panther Bar
Zing
Clif Protein Coconut Almond Chocolate
Clif's Protein Coconut Almond Chocolate Bar gets its 14 grams of protein from whey protein. Not many people know that, prior to settling on the Clif name, the company tried out Gary's Bars, Forza, and Torque as brand names.
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Zone Perfect Peach Almond
Panther Bars
Panther Bars are made from almonds, butter, sugar, cream and honey. They have 8% of the protein you need daily and 26% of the fat you should also be getting in your daily diet.
Lenny and Larry's Protein Cashew
Think Thin Oat and Nut Bar
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Epic Chocolate Pecan
Larabar Breakfast Bars
NuGo Dark Chocolate Coconut
NuGo's Dark Chocolate Coconut Bar is one of several bars the company manufactures. NuGo uses ingredients that are sourced from trusted suppliers. It is a company that engages in corporate philanthropy and supports the Children's Alopecia Project.
ProBar Oatmeal Chocolate
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No-Bake Cookie Co. Peanut Butter Bites
Bite Fuel Power Bites Protein Cookies Snickerdoodle
Bite Fuel's Power Bites are tiny soft-baked cookies. The company was founded by a kindergarten teacher and the sales manager of a milk company. They wanted to stay fit without cheating on their diets.
Quest Energy Boost Bites
Think Ginger Snaps
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Think High Protein Bar
The Think High Protein Bar is a pretty decent protein hit if that's what you're looking for. There's more protein in one of these bars than you'll get in three eggs. Considering most people need between 46 and 56 grams of protein per day, that's pretty significant.
Lenny and Larry's Doube Fudge Bar
NoGo Ultra Protein
Larabar Plus Chocolate
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Clif Breakfast Bar
The Edge Pecan
ProBar Meal Almond Crunch
ProBar dates back to the early 2000s in Park City, Utah. The company's founder had apparently decided that a life of martinis and cheesesteaks was not doing him any favors and, inspired by a health bar from a local health food store, ProBar was born.
Honey Stinger Oatmeal Bar
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RXBAR Chocolate Sea Salt
RXBAR makes its chocolate sea salt energy bars with three egg whites, six almonds, four cashews, and two dates. The recipe for their bars is apparently a painstaking process. They say it took 250 variations just to nail the chocolate coconut flavor.
Clif Nutri-Fudge
The Edge Chocolate Almond
ThinkThin Cocoa and Honey
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NuGo Chocolate Caramel
Premier Choco-Cashew
thinkThin Chocolate Mint
The thinkThin Chocolate Mint Bar is part of the thinkThin lineup created by Lizanne Falsetto. Falsetto was an international runway model in the 1990s before she got into making protein bars.
Go Macro Power Bar
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Health Warrior Apple Cinnamon Bar
That's It Caramel Nougat Bar
Epic Bar
Clif Builder's Protein Crunchy Peanut Butter
With 20 grams of protein, Clif Builder's Protein Crunch Peanut Butter Bar gives you a pretty solid protein hit. The company's founder, Gary Erickson, wanted to create a good quality protein bar after he went on a 175-mile bike ride in 1990 and had to pack a ton of energy bars for the trip.
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Epic Bar
KIND Protein White Chocolate Cinnamon Almond
KIND's Protein White Chocolate Cinnamon Almond Bar tastes like a cinnamon bunch with an added bit of crunch and, of course, 12 grams of protein to keep you jazzed up. KIND has been pretty successful since they first showed up in 2004. The company had over $1 million in sales in its first year.
ProBar Meal Almond Crunch
The GFB White Chocolate Peanut Butter
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Kind Crispy Cashew
Larabar Oatmeal Cinnamon
Bobo's Almond Butter Oat Bar
Bobo's Almond Butter Oat Bar is made with both almond butter and sliced almonds. The original bars that the company made were just whole grain oats, organic cane sugar, brown rice syrup and vegan spread. The founder and her daughter started out making them in their kitchen, and continue the "small batch" tradition to this day!
Clif Kid Z Bar Iced Oatmeal bar
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Panther Bar
KIND Caramel Nut Bar
Clif Fruit Smoothie Filled Tart Cherry Berry
It may have a weird name, but the Clif Fruit Smoothie Filled Tart Cherry Berry Bar has a smoothie-like filling to give you a the textural and flavorful hit of something different. Clif likes to be a bit different, which is why the company has green-friendly initiatives and even an employee stock ownership program.
That's It Apple and Date
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