Healthy Snack Bar Review: Doctor's Orders

I enjoy making my own healthy bars or snacks to have as a quick breakfast or snack on the go. But I don't always have time or the ingredients to do so. Those are the times that I am so thankful that there are so many healthy snack options available in kiosks and supermarkets nowadays.

Doctor's Orders bars are the new kids in healthy bar town. In the last few years or so I have seen such a giantic rise in amount of companies and brands selling healthy snacks on the go. I have (and still am) trying as many different bars as possible. In these reviews I will let you know what I think about them.

Flavours

Doctor's Orders has 3 different flavours at the moment:

-Nuts & Vanilla

-Cranberry & Orange

-Cacao & Nuts

Ingredients & Nutritional Value

First let's take a look at the ingredients. These are the ingredients all three bars have in common:

18% wholegrain wheat flour

rasins

chicory root fibre

oat bran

grass butter

barn chicken egg

baking yeast

wheat germs

crushed linseeds

sourdough cultures

malted wheat flour

Bourbon vanilla

seasalt

These are the ingredients that differ per bar.

1. Nuts & Vanilla - 147 calories p/bar :

26% Nuts (pecans, almonds in coat, cashews, hazlenuts in coat)

4% honey

2. Cranberry & Orangem- 127 calories p/bar:

14% dried cranberries (51% dried cranberry, apple juice concentrate)

apricots

nuts (almonds, hazlenuts)

0,7 % orange peel

0,7 % concentrated cranberry juice

oange blossom water

4% honey

3. Cacao & Nuts - 150 calories p/bar:

11% pure cacao

2% honey 

17% nuts (pecans, almonds, hazlenuts, cashews)

rasped coconut

cayenne pepper

Wait, what is going on?!

The bars contain chicory root fibre. Sounds scary? It isn't. Chicory root fibre, also known as inulin, is just a type of plantbased fibre. Which, if you have any knowledge about digestion is a good thing!

Tips

The bars tend to be a little bit dry, the basic Nuts & Vanilla more than the others.

Some of my 'testpanel' thought that the bars are not sweet enough, but for me they are perfectly good. 

Tops

What I especially like about these bars is that they are different from other healthy bars. 90% of wholesome bars in the supermarket are made out of mainly dates which makes them very much like one another.

Another top: Doctor's Orders only uses good quality ingredients such as Bourbon vanilla, grass butter and barn eggs. That is something that I really respect in companies especially young ones like Doctor's Orders.

The bars are refined sugar free, only using natural sweeteners such as honey and dried fruit. Even the dried cranberries are preserved in a natural way using fruit juice concentrate (many brands do use refined sugar for this process). On top of this they also contain only whole grains. This prevents your bloodsugar from rising sky high making it a great snack.

What I also like about these bars is that they only contain around 150 calories per par, unlike some of the 'healthy' bars around that contain nearly 300 calories per snack. This makes Doctor's Orders bars a healthy choice in my opinion.

Favourite 1-3

1. Cacao & Nuts
2. Cranberry & Orange
3. Nuts & Vanilla