5 Ingredient Nut Bars Recipe – Homemade KIND Bars! (2024)

FAQs

What are the ingredients in a kind bar? ›

Ingredients: Peanuts, glucose syrup, almonds, honey, sugar, soy protein isolate, palm kernel oil, peanut butter (peanuts, sea salt) unsweetened chocolate, alkalized cocoa, tapioca starch, chicory root fiber, soy lecithin, sea salt, natural flavor, cocoa butter.

puffed millet, rice or other whole grain -- used in all 8 bars. KIND bars contain "crisp rice" in their ingredient list; however their rice pieces are tiny balls.

KIND^® Bars

These bars are where our journey started and it was simple: whole ingredients like nuts, mixed with fruits and spices bound together with honey.

They are also high in fibre and the fats are usually from nuts, which contain healthier unsaturated fats, unlike the saturated fats found in chocolate, cakes and biscuits. They are quite filling so can be good if you are hungry and it's a long time until your next meal, or if you're doing something active.

KIND bars offer several health benefits, primarily due to their high fiber content. With 7 grams of fiber per bar, they contribute significantly to the daily recommended fiber intake of 25 grams for women and 38 grams for men. The fiber in KIND bars comes from almonds, peanuts, and chicory root fiber.

#2: Low Glycemic Index Kind Bars

Low glycemic foods don't act this way. There are fewer spikes and drops in your insulin as your blood sugar rises and declines more gradually.

This white film does not mean the chocolate is moldy or has gone bad. It's actually just a scientific process called “chocolate bloom”. There are two types of this bloom: sugar bloom and fat bloom.

KIND® Energy bars contain 100% whole grains – which contain complex carbohydrates; a type of carbohydrate that contains fiber. Foods with these types of carbohydrates are digested more slowly, keeping you full longer and providing longer-lasting energy throughout the day.

A balanced bar that includes protein from sources such as nuts, seeds, or protein isolates, will help keep you full for longer and create lasting energy needed to get you to your next meal. Healthy fats. Most bars in my stash contain a good amount of healthy fats from nuts and seeds, and for a good reason.

We have multiple product lines that do not have nuts added to the recipes. Bear in mind that all our products are made in a facility that processes tree nuts, peanuts, soy and sesame.

Have kind bars gotten smaller? ›

I've been buying these bars since 2017 and they were fabulous until KIND decided they needed to follow the shrinkflation trend and reduce the size of the bars while increasing the price. The bars honestly look about 1/3 smaller than before and the consistency has changed - they sort of fall apart in your hands now.

Brazil nuts, cashews and macadamia nuts are higher in saturated fat. Too much of this can contribute to raised cholesterol levels, so only eat them occasionally. Chestnuts are an exception – they're lower in all types of fats and higher in starchy carbohydrate than other nuts.

The total sugar content across all our snacks range from 4-21 grams.

Larabars can be a healthy choice as an occasional energy bar or snack when they are part of a balanced, healthy diet. While they should not be used as a meal replacement, they can be a good nutritional choice as long as consuming the natural sugars and calories in the bars is safe for you.

Kind bars, the popular on-the-go snacks, sure do look healthy. They contain nuts and fruit (and sometimes chocolate), they're a source of protein and antioxidants, they're low in sodium and have zero trans fats.

We don't use high fructose corn syrup and you'll never find artificial sweeteners or added sugar alcohols in our snacks, since they go against our philosophy of using premium, better-for-you ingredients that are KIND® to your body.