Protein bars are developed especially for weight loss or strict maintenance of muscle bulk. With their help to people it is easier to achieve a goal, it is much easier to carry out control of all used proteins and carbohydrates. Besides, athletes and people who keep to diets also want to indulge sometimes the flavoring receptors with something sweet. Therefore in article we will talk about types of bars and about methods of their use.
Useful structure
Basis of any protein bar is the protein which is easily acquired by an organism. Except a protein, chocolate and various fragrances is a part of a product.
The structure of bars can be a miscellaneous, depending on that, proteinaceous it or carbohydrate. But practically all companies on production of this product use collagen and gelatin which give the form to bar for preparation.
Depending on the producer, can add various fruit, cereals, honey, genuine condensed milk, coconut oil, citric acid, salt, emulsifiers to delicacy.
Whether you know? Scientists from the University of Texas established that if as a part of bar the ratio of proteins and carbohydrates 1:3, then restoration and growth of muscles passes much quicker, than in cases when bars with carbohydrates alone are used.
High-carbohydrate delicacies contain a large number of sugar which is not especially useful to teeth and an organism in general.
The basis of fragrances is formed by E-fillers about which many people as articles about harm of such additives filled all Internet know. But actually, at the correct and controlled use of this product, you will not do harm to an organism, on the contrary — there will be only an advantage. For today you will not find in supermarket of any product which would be without fragrances.
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Types
All power bars are divided into three views and are intended for people who keep the figure and also for diabetics. Main types of protein delicacies are: cereal, high-carbohydrate and high-protein bars.
Low-calorie (cereals)
Cereal desserts make of various cereal cultures: rice, corn, sugar cane, etc. In additive to all this add various dried fruit, fructose, linen, oat flakes, starch. Besides, most of manufacturers adds various vitamin and mineral complexes, glutamine, caffeine, chrome to the products.
As manufacturers of this delicacy say if to eat one such bar instead of a habitual portion of food, then it is possible to lose weight quickly and effectively.
And they are right only in case your habitual portion of food on calories exceeds nutrition value of bar. And one cereal dessert on average possesses 250 calories. But pluses of such tasty and dietary food that it has in itself a set of useful substances (only expensive products) which at once fill standard daily rate for an organism.
High-carbohydrate
Ratios of protein and carbohydrates as a part of high-carbohydrate protein bars 1:4 equals. About 50 g of carbohydrates drop to one tile of high-carbohydrate food.
And it with a weight of the above-stated tile in 100 g. Calories this product contains not less than 400 (on 100 g of weight).
It is important! If as a part of a product there is a hydrolyzed gelatin, then do not buy it better. Such gelatin is done of horse and cow hoofs.
High-carbohydrate food is not suitable for application to people who try to lose extra kilos. Such food is used by people who visit every day the gym for the purpose of preparation for competitions or simple strengthening of the muscles.
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Eat useful sweet right after the training, closing a carbohydrate window. Such food is very easily and quickly acquired therefore it is applied for a long time by the settled experienced athletes.
High-protein
High-protein chocolates contain the minimum quantity of carbohydrates at the maximum quantity of protein.
This type of bars is the complete antithesis of high-carbohydrate chocolates, and, respectively, they are applied in other purposes. High-protein food is suitable as for the people trying to lose extra kilos and for people who work in the gym for the purpose of a set of muscle bulk.
High-protein protein bars are very often applied by people who periodically keep to low-carbohydrate diets. But a great number of athletes beginners do not know for what they are necessary.
Effective diets of star celebrities enjoy wide popularity, among them a diet from Megane there are Fox, Miley Cyrus, Sylvester Stallone, Jennifer Aniston, Victoria Beckham.
And such bar which is filled with a large amount of protein can replace a large portion of proteinaceous food — conveniently, there is a lot of food for time it is not necessary.
Selection criteria
In order that this food brought you both pleasure, and advantage, it needs to be chosen according to certain criteria. First of all you have to be defined in that, for what purpose you buy a product (it is just useful and to have a bite, gain tasty weight, to lose weight, add efficiency and endurance to the organism at trainings).
After consideration of a goal it is possible to decide on bar type at once: if you want to lose weight — cereal or proteinaceous chocolates are necessary if you want to increase endurance during the trainings — high-carbohydrate.
Also when choosing protein bars try to pay attention to structure of a product: amount of sugar, protein, carbohydrates, calories, chemical and nutritional supplements. Especially attentively study the list of nutritional supplements under the marking Е. Such additives can bring not benefit, but harm to an organism.
Therefore the rating of the seller will be one more selection criterion. Than demand is more and the rating is higher, especially it is probable that as a part of a product the amount of nutritional supplements and dyes E is minimized.
Besides, always try to buy more expensive products. To save money on the health not the really logical decision. But buying the most expensive bar, not just take it and bear on cash desk, and attentively study structure of a product. It is necessary to pay big money only for the most favorable structure of chocolate.
Rules of the use
These products are used by various rules, depending on what type of bar is used and for what purposes.
When?
Protein bars accept for completion in an organism of various minerals, and in particular — proteins and carbohydrates.
For example, if you regularly visit the gym, but you have no time and an opportunity for intake of food or protein cocktail, then having a snack a high-carbohydrate chocolate bar will be just right. There are no accurate instructions on when to use a useful and tasty product therefore it is accepted as at the beginning of the training, and at the end. The main thing that such food completely did not replace your habitual diet.
Whether you know? The first analog of sweet protein food was developed in 1934.
However some experts claim that it is the best of all to eat such protein food for an hour prior to the training. Then it will be easier for organism to cope with loadings in a type of his best endurance.
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Besides, people who try to lose weight can use protein bars (better high-protein) during the trainings, but only to watch closely the number of the used and lost calories. There is an opinion that intake of protein delicacy during the trainings also favorably influences an organism. When you actively are engaged in the gym, your indicators of protein and glucose in blood change, having a snack protein bar very well will be suitable for their stabilization.
Besides, sometimes feelings of hunger in the course of the trainings badly affect performance. Therefore one bar will be very opportunely.
Plus to everything, it is very well acquired by an organism, during jog or a press of a bar you will not feel weight in a stomach.
To people who keep to a strict diet and at the same time lead low-active lifestyle, it is possible to eat one low-calorie (cereal) chocolate a day. It is the best of all to replace one of meals of cereal bar. Still there is a wish to note the fact that for weight loss it is better to buy bars without additives having cognitive effect (guarana, caffeine).
How much?
Admissible norm of the consumption of useful delicacy in day — 1-2 pieces.
It is undesirable to exceed norms as it will not do good to your organism any more (sometimes the dose is exceeded, but only in cases when loading strongly raises at trainings). Also do not think that if you used a tile of a protein dessert, then at once replaced with it all day diet with all vitamins both macro - and minerals. It is impossible to refuse habitual food at all.
How it is correct?
Athletes take this delicacy for an hour prior to trainings, and most of experienced trainers support such decision. Only one bar is capable to give to muscles all necessary vitamins, carbohydrates, proteins.
They have high biological activity and powerful anabolic action. It will be correct if you pull down bar in half, you will accept one part for an hour prior to a training, and the second part — right after it. So your organism will distribute more effectively received energy.
Important! Do not buy bars which contain sugar or corn syrup and sweeteners.
For those who try to fight against excess weight it is better to coordinate intake of protein food with the dietitian. An organism at each person different, and, respectively, a metabolism different.
Advantage and harm
Each athlete after the tiresome and long training not really that also wants to stand behind a plate and to cook to himself food. On this case there are protein bars which even surpass such product as chicken breast in composition of useful substances. But the advantage and harm of protein bars will depend, first of all, on quality of a product and frequency of its use. If to use only a quality product, and at the same time the nobility of the rule of the use then from delicacy it is possible to wait only for advantage.
If such nutritional supplement is created qualitatively and on the basis of natural amino acids, then your organism will feel advantage of intake of such food at once.
Protein bar has in itself a set of useful and irreplaceable nutrients which are capable to build and support muscle bulk and also to develop various blood cages. Besides, protein food helps to produce missing hormones and to cure the damaged fabric.
Whether you know? Recent researches the American scientists yielded unexpected result: the majority of protein bars make on the basis of a soy protein which is very harmful to men as it contains oestradiol.
Except advantage, at such food is also extremely negative, acting on an organism, factors.
For example, the low-quality product contains a set of nutritional supplements which are very harmful to a human body, and at long intake of such additives there can be various chronic diseases.
Therefore if you eat protein bars, then buy a product from the checked producer better. One more minus of this delicacy — an incomplete set of all substances, useful to an organism. Many athletes mistakenly believe that if regularly to eat this food, then it is possible to cover completely all necessary day norm of vitamins, minerals, fatty acids.
But it not absolutely so, protein bars contain not all set of such substances therefore in addition it is necessary to eat normal and healthy food.
Preparation in house conditions
Not to pay big money for protein bars, them it is possible to make easily with own hands in house conditions, and for this purpose we will provide you several recipes on preparation. For preparation of protein bars according to the first recipe it is required to us: on 0.5 glasses of cream cheese and the powdered milk (fat-free) 5 spoons of a protein with taste of banana, a glass of oat flakes, a glass of bilberry, banana, 2 egg whites, a quarter of a glass of water and 3 teaspoons of rape oil.
To prepare such tasty and useful product, for a start it is necessary to warm an oven to 160 °C. Further it is necessary to take two bowls and in one to mix a protein, oat flakes and powdered milk, and in another — all other ingredients.
After that we oil a baking pan rape, and we mix contents of two plates and we shake up the mixer. Now ready mix can be placed in a mold and to bake for 25-30 minutes. As a result there will be 7 separate protein bars.
Important! After the use of these sweets surely rinse a mouth water. Such food rather viscous can also stick to teeth that leads to appearance of caries.
For preparation of protein delicacy according to the second recipe it is required to us: on one glass of the wedge syrup and powdered milk (fat-free) 2 egg whites, 2 glasses of oat flakes, 4 spoons of a chocolate or vanilla protein, a vanillin teaspoon, a quarter of a glass of natural orange juice and 3 teaspoons of rape oil.
Study the recipe of cocktail in house conditions for your muscle bulk.
Further, as well as in the first recipe, we take two plates, and in one we mix a protein, oat flakes and powdered milk, and in the second — all the rest.
Further actions for preparation of tasty protein food completely coincide with effects of the first recipe. As a result you receive 9 very tasty and useful protein bars.
Such useful sweets will always load you with energy before each training.