Are Grenade Bars Healthy? Lets Find Out!
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Grenade Bars are delicious and have rapidly become the most popular protein bar in the UK. They are slowly taking over the world so congratulations to the guy who came up with them. I eat one every Friday as a treat but I know some people believe they are sin/guilt free or may even build muscle or help you to lose fat. So what is the truth? In this video I compare the Grenade Oreo flavour (Da bestest one!) with the humble Mars Bar and question if it is really that much better than choosing a simple chocolate bar... #gym #muscle #grenade #proteinbar
My current favourite are the Barebells ones, better taste and macros than most others. Great for protein on the go. Per 55G bar 204 kcal, Fat/Sat 8.8/3.6, Carbs/Sugar 16/1.5, Fibre 2.9, Protein 20 and no palm oil.
Along the same lines I am loving the Ehrmann protein desserts, Lemon, Strawberry and Chocolate Mouse and set ones too like Vanilla and Caramel flavours. Again really good macros and feel like a proper dessert (I have a very sweet tooth and these satisfy my cravings).
I've been eating these telling myself it's healthy 🫠
if im trying to build muscle I rather eat some chicken wings from the local chicken shop which is gonna be cheaper than the protein bar
To be honest on a keto diet the grenade bars has helped alot and have not raised my insulin levels or taken me out of ketosis so im sure the polyols are not digested by the body. This does justify the price tag in my eyes.
To me it's a breakfest for when I go gym at 430am. Something for on the road to tie me over
Thanks for the info fella.
I'm not trying to be a smart arse but just an Fyi on the point about Oils , Rapeseed oil contains the least saturated fat of all oils - and that’s good, as current advice confirms a diet high in saturated fat is linked to poorer heart health. It has less monounsaturated fat than olive oil, but a bigger proportion of polyunsaturated fat, which helps to lower LDL cholesterol. it also has higher Vitamin E content than Olive Oil and also higher in antioxidants.
That being said my Wife is Greek and we exclusively use extra virgin Olive Oil, however my old Mum has always Swared by Rapeseed Oil and its health benefits over vegetable oil and Sunflower oil.
She uses Rapeseed for Cooking and Olive oil for dressing.
Oh... Rapeseed is healthier for your vehicle and its emissions too in Bio-ethanol & Bio-Diesel vs regular fossil fuels, So healthy for your Motor too LOL
Cheers for the informative video .👍
Have to admit, I do like the peanut butter one and there's a box of the fudged up ones in my fridge right now.
I think those are the only ones which doesn’t have the typical protein bar taste . I love these !!
Grenade bars are delicious, I love em 🤣🤷♂️ buy them in bulk to save cash
My mum used to love these but they where just too expensive
Crazy expensive bro! If they was like a pound or less then ppl would probably use them daily but £2.75 they are now! Even £3 in some places 🤦🏼♂️
@@katyh3547 Yeah, I heard that they are £1.50 in tesco though.
@@katyh3547you’re buying shop prices go on their website and you can pay 70p a bar if u buy a box
I don't think carbohydrates are the same. Per 100gram Plantain has 32g carbohydrate fibre 2gram, banna 23g carbohydrate 3gram fibre, maize 18.7 carbohydrate 2g fibre, sweet corn 13.6 carbohydrate 1.6g fibre. On the surface maize and plantains have much more carbohydrate and you would think would make you fatter. Difference is maize and plantains are full of resistant starch and much lower in simple sugars, the resistant starch is broken down in your intestines, vs the simple sugars are broken down prior. There is some maize in that bar. Still, I would rather go for less processed food.
That is true but there is no whole maize in that bar. The processed maize has none of the benefits and is just used by food companies because it is cheap.
@@thatgearguy processing can increase resistant starch, like toast has more resistant starch than bread. Not sure why they use the maize, maybe a cheap filler. You would think at the price they wouldn't skimp out on quality ingredients, but I realise it doesn't always work like that
@@brucejensen3081 "you would think they wouldnt skimp on quality ingredients" - They are owned by Mondelez, one of the largest snack producers in the world. They also own Cadbury and Oreos. You think they care more about quality and health than they do profit?
@@thatgearguy lol. Under further examination a lot of the carbohydrate is polyols. I am unsure if they are good or bad. I use an olive leaf extract that has glycerine in it, which is a polyol, which I really would rather not use. Apparently olive oil with some leaf in it, is more nutritious and has a longer shelf life, but I can't find any. I guess some would say these bars are good because of the polyols and some would say they are bad, because of the polyols
I eat them to help me stay of sugar as I usually gorge every day on something like five candy bars which is going to kill me.
I can eat up to four grenade bars a day and although that's too much carbs for my weight loss gains, my primary objective is to avoid refined sugar.
I can handled under 10g of sugar a day and even eating four Grenade bars a day should give me no more than 6g of sugar if they are being truthful on the label. Of course, the secondary sugar/glucose I will get from all the carbs wont' be good but the main point is avoid direct, refined sugar.
Of course, they are also not economically sustainable to eat four a day at £2.50 each.
Just recruit some willpower. 4 a day is frankly ridiculous.
@@thatgearguy Let's examine your idiotic reply shall we?
When I eat four a day I don't get any ill effects from the sugar that was negatively impacting me when I ate sweets.
That's my only objective.
So, eating four a day achieves my objective.
But somehow you want to tell me I should have your objective and your method?
How bout no.
Also, only morons say things like 'just have more will power'.
It shows they have zero understanding of what will power is and think a person can just decide to flip a switch and bingo, more will power.
Also, these morons love to equate the mechanics of how much will power a person does or doesn't have with some kind of moral evaluation. Again, showing their utter ignorance of how the human machine works physically, mentally, wilfully and even spiritually.
A person may have great will power in many areas of life and not so much in some particular area. Here's a great example, you may be good at not eating four Grenade bars a day but you have zero self control when it comes to restraining your desire to insult your viewers and people who take time to comment on your videos. I mean, to be fair, that's both a lack of will power 'and' an actual moral failure on your part so I do get that it's a one-two punch of a challenge for you to be civil.
But yeah, swings and roundabouts, I happen to eat 6g of sugar and 80 carbs a day over four Grenade bars Oooooooooh, I'm such a glutton. And you are prone to childish outbursts. We all have our failings don't we?
Grenade bars aren't healthy for my wallet. They're getting on towards £3 a bar...
Literally tho bro the prices are disgusting for these, although they do taste good it’s really not worth buying often, I seen one for £3 the other day in a shop and most places charge £2.70-£2.75
I buy them in bulk on the website, £18 for 12 of them or £45 for 36 of them
@@SeniterYTsame here. I got 12 for £16
@@katyh3547 They cost 1.80£ and that's excluding discount codes that they have on the grenade website - U have to buy a minimum of 12 though.
They cost 1.80£ and that's excluding discount codes that they have on the grenade website - U have to buy a minimum of 12 though.
To be honest im on the side of protein bars are just junk food you don't actually absorb whey protein the same as if you eat meat. I would rather spend my money on some pork crackling then any kind of protein bar
Its a meal replacement.. what do you expect? It to be low calorie??
Im not complaining about it. I am jusr reporting what they are.
Well, I am obviously a psychopath. My favorite is Bodylabs chocolate banana 🙀
I just meant out of the grenade range. I have never tried a bodylab bar but I will now!
@@thatgearguy if you do, make sure to get the old one (the dark chocolate one). They recently introduced a new version. My favorite is the OG 😉
These taste awful i’d rather just whip up some eggs
That was great
You say the carbs give the same negative effect in each bar because mars is sugar and grenade is 'processed carbs' but if you look most of the carbs in a grenade bar are from polyols, maltitol to be precise, which has just over half the glycemic index of sugar so surely there will be some difference especially when referring to the blood sugar spike?
You would get less of a spike but polyols bring a host of their own issues. There is no such thing as a free lunch..
Polyols are considered to elicit low glycaemic and insulinemic responses due to the incomplete absorption into the blood stream from the small intestine. They are also associated with lipogenesis inhibition as well as lower insulin production.
They are most certainly not healthy
It's a benidlfit for people who want to lower sugar intake
Another way to do that is not to eat any bars at all.
I appreciate this video because am really uneducated on food and what it does for me, I eat really bad such as McDonald’s and Burger King, and chippys and pizza and I do this everyday for the last few years, I am 7.5 stone tho which I don’t understand and I am 25 next month I’m male too btw but I can’t seem to put weight on what so ever I need help
Hi bud. It sounds like you have a very fast metabolism. Have you ever had your thyroid function checked? Might be worth looking into. Other than a medical reason it really comes down to calories per day. I am eating 5 healthy meals per day to net around 3000 calories and maintain 90 kilos. How many meals do you consume? Do you have days you dont eat?
if u smoke weed aswell it’s harder