P90X Peak Performance Wildberry Protein Bars
I think it’s important to write about nutrition every once in a while. Today, I tried the P90X Peak Performance Wildberry Protein Bar. It tastes like blueberries dipped in chocolate except that it’s chewy if you can imagine that. I was concerned about how the bar would taste when I first opened it up because it looked like it would taste like the early generation soy protein bars that were chewy and had little taste. I was pleasantly surprised to bite into a blueberry that didn’t taste like those early bars at all.
This bar is packed with 270 calories and 18 grams of protein. In my book, that makes it a meal replacement bar unless you’re doing a high intensity program like P90X, ChaLEAN Xtreme or Insanity where you need to increase your caloric intake to reach your goals. As an alternative, I’ve often cut a protein bar in half to make it more supportive as a mid-morning snack or after workout snack to replenish energy. If the bar is cut in half, it would have 9 grams of protein and 135 calories. That’s a very acceptable healthy snack with any exercise program.
Each bar has 6 grams of fat with 3 grams of saturated fat and zero trans fats. There’s an added bonus of 4 grams of fiber which you don’t usually see in a tasty bar. This is not a low carbohydrate protein bar though. The carbs weigh in at 37 grams, but that’s important if you’re supplementing a high intensity program or you’re using the bar (i.e. half bar as a snack) to refuel after a long workout.
