Dr. Ashley LucasPhD Nutritionist & Dietitian | Owner & Founder PHD Weight Loss & Dr. Ashley Wellness

Why Protein Bars Aren’t Helping Your Hunger – The Truth About Fake Food 🍫❌

17 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video arguing that packaged protein bars do not trigger the same physiological fullness signals as whole foods. The speaker claims equal-calorie servings (e.g., 200 kcal) of steak vs. protein bars produce different satiety, with steak leaving one more full; many "healthy" bars are high in sugar.

Packaged protein bars are the other items you would drop. Your body does not register these protein bars as it would with real meal. It just, it's not real food. So it's not going to trigger the same full signals as eating real whole food. Like, you could consume 200 calories of a protein bar and 200 calories of steak, and it's going to lead to a different physiological response and you're going to be much more full on the steak than the protein bar. Even the healthy ones, a lot of the healthy ones are just packed in sugar.