Why most protein bars taste like s**t

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Many protein bars claim to contain “no added sugars” but what they have in there is stevia, aspartame or Lo han guo and Sucralose. Lo han guo, also known as monk fruit, is the Chinese equivalent of stevia. Sucralose is an artificial sweetener that may or may not cause cancer, bowel disease, and DNA alterations in mice.

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Kimberly Atwood’s books have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist. Kimberly lives in the Rocky Mountains with her husband, an exceptionally perfect dog, and an attack cat. Before she started writing historical research, Kimberly got a graduate degree in theoretical physical chemistry from Ohio State University. After that, just to shake things up, she went to law school at the University of London and graduated summa cum laude. Then she did a handful of clerkships with some really important people who are way too dignified to be named here. She was a law professor for a while. She now writes full-time.

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