Features
When watching what you eat, you often have to decide between convenience and nutrition. Convenient meals and snacks are bogged down with artificial sweeteners and preservatives, and healthy snacks require time and preparation. RBars are a perfect blend of whole ingredients and convenience.

Ingredients
What makes the RBar stand in the dense market of energy bars is not what is found in the bars, but what is left out. Many of these bars only contain three simple ingredients that taste impossibly fresh. Many bars pack in ingredients that we often don’t recognize or am even able to pronounce. The Peanut Butter and Jelly bar, for instance, only contains peanuts, dates, and raisins.

Effectiveness
These bars offer the same level of pure nutrition as fresh fruits and vegetables in a small and convenient package. Most bars provide just shy of 200 calories per bar, and their energy bars also provide around 4 grams of protein per serving.

By utilizing nuts and fruit, you get high-end nutrition in a small package that you can toss into a gym bag or tote to ensure that your hunger monster doesn’t spiral out of control.

Value
RBars are made for those that want to fuel their bodies with convenient and high-quality ingredients. If you find yourself reaching for not-so-healthy snacks between meals, these bars are an excellent alternative. If you want the convenience of processed foods with the simple ingredients of a homemade snack, this is one of your very best options.

Features
One thing that we like about these bars is that they don’t come with sugar added in them, and the only carbs you get are natural and healthy. You’ll also get a dose of both whey milk protein isolates, which will build up your endurance as you train. Plus, these bars are made to give you the best nutritional profile to speed up your muscle recovery and help you become stronger.

Ingredients
These bars are packed with great, all-natural ingredients that will aid you in your endurance training and help build your muscles so you get to the strength levels you want to achieve. You’ll get twenty grams of protein, which will aid you in muscle recovery. You’ll also get four grams of healthy carbs, which will provide you energy and also give your body some assistance with recovery. There are also plenty of fibers in them, and they come both gluten and soy-free.

Effectiveness
One of the ways you can tell how effective a product is would be to understand how popular it is. Considering this is the bestselling bar in America, you’re getting something that works. You’ll get the proteins you need and a healthy dose of muscle recovery so that you can build up your endurance.

Value
These protein bars do run a bit on the expensive end of things, but they are also extremely popular because they are effective. They also come in a wide variety of flavors and are packed with all of the important things you need to help your muscles recover as you train, including good carbs, fibers, and a lot of protein. They are also so popular because they work, so if you can afford them, they are an excellent option.

Features
These bars come with a nice combination of very healthy and effective ingredients that all come from real food. That is something we really like, and we also like that you get some nutrients like potassium and magnesium with this product. Plus, you’ll wind up with a bar that will help you build up your endurance while you train, and replace some of the important nutrients and minerals you lose when you sweat and workout. With 15 different flavors available, you're bound to find one that you love.

Ingredients
These bars are made out of twelve grams of egg white protein and also feature four grams of fiber. In them, you get some nutrients you’d want to have post-workout since you’d be sweating them out and would need to replace them. That includes magnesium and potassium. Plus, these bars don't contain sugar, soy, gluten, or dairy. They are also non-GMO.

Effectiveness
These bars are quite effective because they are comprised out of real food ingredients, including sea salt, cashews, cacao, egg whites, almonds, and dates. That makes it very healthy, and no sugar is added to the product. It’s made to give you very natural ingredients which will provide you with what you need to get great muscle recovery, and reach your endurance goals.

Value
RX Bars do run on the expensive side of things for these types of bars, but there is a bit of an understandable reason for this. They give you a high-quality bar that is made out of real foods, and that makes the bar a bit more to manufacture. Also, you’ll get a bar that is so popular and effective, many people keep buying it. So, it is still a great value.

Features
We really like that these bars are easy to digest, and the carbs that come in them are low glycemic carbs so that they digest slowly and won’t spike your blood sugar. That way, you are able to retain effective energy levels for longer, which will help you build up your endurance. Also, you get a very effective bar that is low in sugar, and very healthy.

Ingredients
NuGo’s Bar packs in sixteen grams of protein, and that means it’s quite effective as a post-workout muscle recovery aid. You’ll also get vitamins packed into the bar, as well as low glycemic carbohydrates which you can digest slowly so your blood sugar doesn’t spike. The bar is non-GMO and very healthy, and only has three grams of sugar in it.

Effectiveness
This is a very effective bar that is easy for your body to digest and absorb and will give you what you need to boost your energy. The protein in this bar will help your muscles recover faster, and with faster recovery comes more intensive workouts. Also, with your muscles getting the protein they need to gain more endurance, you’ll get stronger faster because your muscles will have everything they need.

Value
NuGo’s Bar is priced very affordably and that makes this a very nice option if you don’t want to spend too much money on bars like this. You’ll get a very healthy combination of non-GMO ingredients that are made to be natural and healthy. Plus, they’ll give your body the protein and nutrients you need to recover well and train hard, making them a nice value option

Features
These bars will give you a very effective dose of protein and fiber, and the protein and fiber will both help build your muscles back up after you’ve worked out for a long period of time. Since you’ll recover faster, you’ll feel better, and you’ll be able to keep up your routine so you get stronger faster.

Ingredients
These bars are packed with high-quality ingredients, and designed to be digested by your body slowly over time so that your blood sugar changes slowly instead of quickly. This bar is made to be all-natural and is gluten-free, sugar-free, and GMO-free. You’ll get ten to twenty grams of protein depending on what flavor you pick, and three grams of fiber. Both the protein and the fiber will give your body what it needs to speed up the recovery process after you finish your training.

Effectiveness
Since these protein bars are made to be slowly digested so that your blood sugar doesn’t spike, they are quite effective. They deliver a very healthy, all-natural source of both protein and fibers, which will allow your body to get what you need as you are strength training. You’ll be able to build up muscle faster, and you’ll also feel much better as you are doing it.

Value
One thing we like about this product is it is packed with great ingredients, healthy, and very affordable. You’ll get what you need to help boost your endurance and allow your body to recover from your workouts without having to spend too much money. That makes this a good value product.

Features
These bars will give you plenty of great ingredients that will aid you with muscle recovery after exercise, as well as building up lean muscle for more endurance. With 240 calories in each bar, you’ll get twenty grams of premium protein to help keep you feeling energetic. Eating the right type of bar, just like eating the right type of food, can help keep you healthy, and also help you gain more strength more quickly. There are fourteen delectable flavors available.

Ingredients
These bars offer you twenty grams of protein per bar, one gram of fiber, and two to four grams of sugar. They are also gluten-free. The protein in this bar is made from whey protein and soy protein. There are no added vitamins to this protein bar, but there are naturally occurring vitamins, such as vitamin D, calcium, iron, and amino acids.

Effectiveness
With so many great ingredients packed into this bar, you’ll get an effective, healthy energy boost as well as all of the protein you need to allow your muscles to recover from your workouts. BSN specifically designed these bars for people with active lifestyles and athletes, and they will help your body develop lean muscle faster and give you the right ingredients to help you keep going with your workouts as you build up your endurance.

Value
Considering all of the great ingredients packed into these bars, you will get a great value if you decide to purchase them. They are very affordable and offer you plenty of great ingredients to help you recover from your workouts, build lean muscle faster, and provide you with energy.

Features
Tanka's Meat Bar brings you a lot of nice features, including excellent packaging so you know you are getting a fresh bar. Also, you’ll get a large serving of prairie-raised buffalo, providing a total of seven grams of lean protein to help your muscles recover after your workouts. The cranberries in the bar help to give you the vitamins for a nice energy boost as well.

Ingredients
Epic’s All-Natural Meat Bar offers some great ingredients, including prairie-raised buffalo, cranberries, lactic acid, and a few common seasonings. You’ll get plenty of protein with a full seven grams of lean protein in it, and a nice energy boost from the ingredients. There are six grams of sugar in this bar, which we wish was lower, but otherwise, the ingredients are great.

Effectiveness
While we wish there was less sugar in this bar, because you are getting about six grams, this is still an effective product. The ingredients are amazing otherwise, and you do get an energy boost from the fruits in the bar as well as a lot of protein. The protein will help your muscles recover more quickly and let you workout harder and stronger.

Value
These bars run on the expensive end of things and cost more than many of the other products on our list. However, they offer a lot of protein from the meat packed into them as well as an effective energy boost. You get some excellent ingredients as well that will help you build up your endurance as you train.

Features
ONE offers you a nice bar that will help your muscles recover after all of your workouts. After you complete your exercises, it’s suggested that you eat one bar, and that will help you get back the materials that you lost from training. You’ll be able to build muscle more quickly and increase your endurance.

Ingredients
These bars come with a nice mix of protein that features whey protein isolate, milk protein isolate, maltitol, soy lecithin, palm kernel oil, calcium carbonate, tapioca starch, and non-fat dry milk. Those ingredients will help you build muscle more easily so that your body has the protein it needs to recover after a workout.

Effectiveness
These bars feature a lot of protein, and that protein is made to help you do several things that will help build up your strength. By eating one protein bar after you work out, you are helping your body get the protein it needs to recover and build muscle, and that will help you build more muscle and increase your endurance quickly. Also, if you are training to lose weight and gain strength and endurance, these bars also work very well as meal replacement bars and will help you reach your weight loss goals.

Value
ONE bar runs on the expensive side of things when you compare them to some of our other bars, but they are an excellent option if you want to build muscle after training. They also work well if you are trying to lose weight since they are also a meal replacement bar. The protein in this product is designed to help your muscles repair themselves, so you will gain strength and endurance quickly.

Features
Optimum Nutrition’s Opti-Bar provides will provide you with a bevy of ingredients that will help your muscles recover after your hardcore workouts. With both milk protein isolates and whey protein isolates, you get a bar that is easy to digest and will help you build up your strength more quickly. You’ll also get a product that is great for lactose sensitivity issues.

Ingredients
Optimum Nutrition’s Opti-Bar comes with about 250 calories per bar and offers you twenty grams of protein per bar. There are about seven to ten grams of fat in each bar, and twenty to twenty-four grams of carbs depending on the bar’s flavor that you buy. Plus, you get vitamins and minerals as well in each bar.

Effectiveness
Optimum Nutrition’s Opti-Bar offers you a lot of great flavor options that actually do taste great, including chocolate brownie, chocolate chip cookie dough, white chocolate raspberry, and cinnamon pecan. If you like sweet tastes, these bars will be great for you. Not only are they easy to eat, but they are also easy to digest, and they are designed for hardcore athletes that need to utilize the protein to build up their strength and endurance.

Value
These bars are a bit more expensive when compared to some other products on our list, but they do have a lot to offer. If you like sweet flavors, then these bars will taste great and be easy for you to eat. Also, they are packed with a lot of protein and made for bodybuilding and endurance training, so they will help keep you going as you build up your strength.

Features
These bars work great if you are looking to refuel and energize quickly, and will help your body get enough protein to recover from intensive training. They’ll help you build up more endurance and strength, and you’ll get a nice burst of energy from the 10-grams of protein. With a lot of great nutrients, you’ll meet your endurance goals more quickly, and also feel ready to go.

Ingredients
One downfall, for some, to these bars is the fact that they contain milk, peanuts, and soy. If this isn't an issue for you, you will appreciate the B vitamins, biotin, vitamin A, vitamin C, iron, and magnesium, just to name a few. There are zero trans-fats in these bars and the king-size bar packs in 9-10-grams of protein.

Effectiveness
There is a reason that Tiger's Milk Protein Bars are still popular, sixty years after their first production. One could argue that the reason these are so exceptionally popular is for the taste. They are undeniably delicious and made with carob in place of cocoa powder. These are convenient if you are in a rush and need a quick meal replacement or to give you an extra boost of energy, whether it be to run errands or a pre or post-exercise routine.

Value
Tiger's Milk Protein Bars are of great value. When bought in a pack of 24, the price per bars comes out to under one dollar. Combining great taste and a lot of benefits at a great value price, this is an excellent option.