A PROTEIN BAR, NOT A CANDY BAR.
Tired of hyper-sweet protein bars and shakes to hit your daily macro targets? Us too.
Ration puts a high-protein, macro-efficient tool in your toolbox, without the trip down the candy aisle.
SPECS (per bar)
- PROTEIN
- 25G
- KCAL
- 170 - 200
- ADDED SUGAR
- 0G
YOU HAVE A PROTEIN TARGET. THE BAR AISLE HAS A DESSERT MENU.
Hitting a protein target inside a calorie budget takes specific nutrition, and the aisle that is supposed to supply it is candy bars and milkshakes. If you’re sick of dessert at 2pm: same.
The category’s own customers call their bars sickly sweet and overpriced, and keep buying them, because those are the choices. Ration is the other choice: 25g of protein for 170 to 200 calories a bar, flavors that taste like food, sweetness dialed down, not dessert.
THE RULE, FROM SOMEONE WHO DOESN’T WORK HERE
“You want to choose food... that’s not so damn delicious that you just want to eat more and more of it.”
ALSO ON THE RECORD: HARVARD HEALTH · USC · NIH
READ THE EVIDENCESEVEN REASONS
WHY IT’S BUILT THIS WAY.
REASON NO. 2
YOU WON’T GET SICK OF IT.
A protein target means eating the thing again tomorrow. Hyper-sweet burns a palate out by midweek. Food flavor holds up on day four.
REASON NO. 3
THE MACROS ADD UP.
Harvard asked whether protein bars are just candy bars in disguise. Fair question. Ration declares 0g added sugar and 25g protein per bar, and publishes every panel.
REASON NO. 5
ONE BAR READS AS ENOUGH.
Cranked-up sweetness can leave you hungrier an hour later; USC ran the trial. Ration keeps sweetness gentle and real, so eating one doesn’t set up the next one.
MORE BAR PER CALORIE.
A bar you eat every day can’t be a chore. Ration is built on puffed rice and protein crisps, so it’s light for its calories and big for its macros: more bar in your hand, more actual eating, same 25 grams. Volume is why the bar still sounds good tomorrow.
BATCH 001 · FOUR FLAVORS
Two gently sweet. Two fully savory. All four taste like food.
THE HOURS
FOR THE HOURS THAT DON’T COOPERATE.
06:10
AIRPORT GATE
Breakfast is a rumor. The bar is not.
THE PICK: R-01 · Toasted Oat · Sea Salt14:50
THE MEETING RAN LONG
Lunch got skipped. Your protein target did not notice.
THE PICK: R-03 · Sharp Cheddar18:05
POST-TRAINING
25 grams before the parking lot.
THE PICK: R-02 · Tart Cherry · Almond23:40
THE FRIDGE IS BARE
Dinner happened hours ago. The target is still 20 short.
THE PICK: R-04 · Jalapeno Cheddar
SAFE TO BUY IN BULK.
The failure mode of most bars is that they’re candy, and candy disappears. Ration tastes like food: you eat one when you need 25 grams and forget the drawer exists when you don’t. Buy the box, twelve bars, $39, and log one a day. That’s the spec.
MADE BY SOMEONE WITH A PROTEIN TARGET OF HIS OWN.
Tim tracks 170g of protein a day, same math as you. Most of it is chicken, egg whites, and Greek yogurt. Ration is for the hours that don’t cooperate, with the most protein he could get into a bar without turning it into a birthday party.
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