Healthy Homemade PROTEIN BARS (5 Ingredients, DIY)

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i’ll show you how to make a homemade protein bar that’s really delicious and it’s very easy to make and you can actually keep it in the refrigerator or the freezer and then take it out when you need it and have it right after a meal so if you wanted to learn how to make that you can fast forward to that section at the end of this video but i want to spend a little bit of time on something very very important that has to do with reading labels and really identifying if something is healthy or not now when we talk about keto friendly all we’re talking about is is that product less than 50 grams of carbohydrate it has nothing to do with the type of carbohydrates okay as long as you’re below 50 grams of carbs you’re good even if those carbs are sugar if it’s less than 50 grams it’s keto friendly but i want to differentiate healthy keto from just keto friendly because i believe that some of these keto friendly products are not safe because you should really know some of these ingredients that they’re sneaking in these different products so i’m going to show you uh this one right here um you’ll see this lilies no this is not a protein bar but it’s lily’s crispy rice dark chocolate bar okay so it says here certified gluten free it says stevia sweetened no sugar added boy that sounds pretty good less sugar sweet life but the most important thing to do is to look at the ingredients underneath the supplement facts this thing right here you read that right there and it says unsweetened chocolate chicory root which is fine and then they get into dextrin what is dextrin that’s a synthetic fiber and then it has erythrotol then we have cocoa butter organic crispy brown rice okay what is that well it’s organic brown rice and organic rice syrup okay that is not a healthy keto okay so right there you don’t want to consume this product now unfortunately a lot of the stevia products like stevia in the raw for example has this filler of maltodextrin maltodextrin as i talked about in a recent video is probably one of the worst ingredients that you can consume because how it’s rated on the glycemic index is like way way higher than actual sugar it’s like between i think 106 and 136 okay and sugar is like 74. so it will really spike your blood sugars now there’s a couple other ingredients i want to bring your attention to a lot of these new synthetic fibers or man-made fibers that are not really from food like you would think are now being promoted as helping your blood sugars like the like the soluble corn fiber aka resistant maltodextrin so this is really confusing to people because you have the maltodextrin which is like the sugar which by the way is not listed under sugars it’s just classified as a carbohydrate now being called a resistant maltodextrin okay so basically what they do is they’re changing the chemistry of the carbohydrate being a polysaccharide to a fiber there’s not a lot of research that you can find on this it’s a fairly new thing that was created and so i don’t know about you but i don’t like to jump into this new ingredient that’s synthetic and that’s highly processed with certain chemicals and solvents and high heats and then think it’s really really safe until all the safety studies have been done and maybe a long-term study to really see is it really safe i mean we already know the regular molten dextrin is really bad this new resistant maltodextrin the jury is not out yet because it’s a very new product but the problem is if you label it as the soluble corn fiber you don’t even know it’s resistant maltodextrin and they also have another one that’s called tapioca starch or corn starch well that’s also resistant maltodextrin so they can make maltodextrin on a lot of things they can make it out of corn wheat potato all sorts of things and so i’m going to highly recommend that you avoid anything with soluble corn fiber tapioca fiber maltodextrin resistant maltodextrin as well as dextrin and dextrose and other sugars now let’s talk about just these these uh bars that you would buy right they may be protein bars or just it might be keto friendly bars let’s start with ideal protein i don’t know if you’ve heard about that company but if you read the label the first ingredient is soy protein isolate that’s a a very processed fractionated protein product with hexane which is a solvent and it’s just not a natural type of protein that i would want in my body and they also use maltodextrin sucralose which is the type of sugar that they added a chlorine molecule and there’s a lot of issues with that type of sugar so i’m not going to recommend that and then they also use modified cornstarch right in the so-called weight loss bar not to mention synthetic vitamins so the quality of ingredients is so low it is definitely not considered healthy keto ideal protein is a program with packaged foods you can have snacks so they’re not doing an imminent fasting it is low carb but the quality of carbs are not what i consider quality and it’s low fat so you may lose weight for sure but from my observation you’re not going to look that healthy and they have like these different phases phase one two three and four and phase four is basically a maintenance where you you can start to bring back in these carbohydrates so i really don’t even understand the concept because you’re gonna do this lose the weight and then you’re gonna go back to your old ways well i mean i think people think if they get the weight off then they’ll just keep it off right well not if you go back to what you’ve been eating so if you haven’t heard this philosophy yet i’ll say it again it’s not lose weight to get healthy it’s get healthy to lose weight and the way you get healthy is you consume healthy ingredients all right now let’s talk about slim fast now there’s two different types of products that slim fast is putting out there right now they’re regular weight loss products and then they have the keto products okay now of course the regular slim fast products are just loaded with sugar and and really poor ingredients but their keto products also have some ingredients that i don’t like and i’m going to list them right now iso malto oligosaccharides okay from tapioca that’s one of their ingredients at one time i did recommend it but i don’t recommend it anymore because it was spiking people’s blood sugars and of course they also use the soluble corn fiber and just so you know the reason why they use it is because it really helps the texture of that product and then they add some tapioca starch or corn starch and then we have the quest bars okay now in the quest barks they have the soluble corn fiber again right which is resistant maltodextrin and they also use a sweetener called sucralose which is a sugar that has an extra chlorine molecule which creates a lot of other issues which i will have to do a video on that topic at some point and then lastly okay the atkins bars okay the atkins bars wow if you take a look at those ingredients you have polydextrose okay which is a sugar that’s very high in the glycemic index they put in maltitol as a sweetener it’s the worst sugar alcohol that you can use it’s definitely going to spike your blood sugar so the next time you buy a keto friendly bar read the ingredients okay before you buy it now this next part is very very important especially if you haven’t seen my last video on maltodextrin but in the way maltodextrin is classified is not as a sugar it’s classified as a total carbohydrate so this is a little loophole that certain companies use when they say that less than one gram of sugar because the maltodextrin is not classified as sugar it’s a carbohydrate so you’re not going to find it in the sugar amounts so that also goes with corn syrup okay so you can have corn syrup and lots of maltodextrin and be less than one gram of sugar regardless of