A lawsuit claims David Bars contain double the advertised calories and seven times the claimed fat, while Consumer Reports found protein powders loaded with heavy metals, including one vegan bar with lead levels 1,600% above safe limits. The speaker recommends whole foods like eggs, cheese, sardines, and biltong instead.
If you're into protein bars and powders, you need to know about two big bombshells that just dropped. The first has to do with David Bar. It's a class action lawsuit against this famous protein bar claiming it contains many more calories and fat than the label suggests. The label says 150 calories. The testing appears to show around 275 and around 5 to 7 times more fat than the label suggests as well. Now the company's kicking back saying it doesn't account for the EPG Frankenfat that's included in the David Bar despite its claiming it's including only what's necessary, which is a whole nother contradiction. But that aside, that's the first bombshell. The other is a Consumer's Report finding that of 23 protein powders analyzed, many contain high levels of heavy metals. So for example, one famous vegan protein bar contains 1,600% of safe levels of lead. So the lesson here really is just be skeptical of ultra-processed food, including ultra-processed protein. The virtue signaling around protein doesn't give the food a buy. When it comes to protein, for me, convenient high protein options I go for are hard-boiled eggs, a block of Parmesan cheese, which contains 35 grams of protein per 100 grams, super rich in calcium, a tin of sardines, or biltong, which is like beef jerky but way better.
