Comments on: Climbing Food Review: Clif ZBars

By: Nicole

Nicole — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:47:52 +0000

I love Clif bars and Clif Kid! I eat the Clif bars as a meal replacement and the Clif Kid as a snack. These ARE healthy, and taste great! seriously? 10 grams of sugar is not a lot, so stop complaining everything has sugar in it! I love these and they are great for kids!

By: Tali

Tali — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:25:22 +0000

My niece is a sugar fiend, always wants desserts and such. I am always trying to get her to go for fruit but when she can’t be persuaded she’ll eat the Zbar. I feel much better giving her one of these bars in lieu of chocolate or other candy.

I also like them for a quick snack when a traditional Clif bar is too much:)

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:18:41 +0000

wow these things are good, 10 grams of sugar though , still trying to find something that doesnt have a lot of sugar in it but guess this has the fiber to make up for it

By: Clif Bar Announces Recall Due to Contaminated Peanut Butter - All Climbing

Clif Bar Announces Recall Due to Contaminated Peanut Butter - All Climbing — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:04:55 +0000

[...] has issued a recall for some of its popular products including Clif Bars, Clif Builder’s Bar, Clif Kid ZBaR, Clif Luna Bar, and Clif Mojo [...]

By: Angry

Angry — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:06:46 +0000

The peanut flavors just got recalled as part of the larger peanut butter/salmonella problem brewing. Since they’re sourcing the same crappy peanut butter as everyone else, who even knows where their stuff really comes from anymore. Really disappointing.

By: A guest post about Clif Zbars

A guest post about Clif Zbars — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:50:50 +0000

[...] A while back, I wrote a guest post about Clif Zbars – a psuedo-energy bar aimed at children. Since that isn’t the type of thing I normally write about here at The Reluctant Eater, I had the article published here on allclimbing.com. [...]

By: Tom Markiewicz

Tom Markiewicz — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:21:26 +0000

With regards to energy bars made for kids, I would think if you can shift them away from candy bars to something like this then it would be a better alternative.

By: Ryan Wanger

Ryan Wanger — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:14:44 +0000

Good point Rocky. For reference, a Crunchy Peanut Butter Clif Bar weighing 68 grams has 18 grams of sugar. The Peanut Butter ZBar is 36 grams, with 11 grams of sugar. So if you do the math, the ZBars have roughly 15-20% more sugar.

I’m no expert on what exactly should be in an energy bar, but certainly we can agree with Tom that, if nothing else, they’re up there in terms of taste.

I can still vividly remember my first Powerbar…it was Malt-Nut, and I almost threw up shortly thereafter.

Thinking about this makes me wonder…should we even be making “energy bars” for kids? Don’t they generally have too much energy as it is?

By: Rocky

Rocky — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:27:25 +0000

Hmmm, of the first 6 ingredients in that list, 4 are basically sugar with fancy names. It’s just a marketing ploy to make parents think they’re giving their kids a health snack when it’s really just a candy bar. “Organic” means nada when it comes to syrup. And the difference between cane syrup or rice syrup versus white sugar is minimal.

By: Tom Markiewicz

Tom Markiewicz — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:33:19 +0000

Agreed. I’ve always found Clif Bars to be the most palatable of the energy bars.

By: John Little

John Little — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:43:00 +0000

Clif products, especially the bars, really seem to be in a class of their own. I wouldn’t want to have to live on them long but there will always be a few bars (and shot bloks) in my pack.