Is this product just marketing to the new health craze that is starting to sweep the nation, and only a re-packaged candy bar, or is it a legit source of nutrition in the class of power bars and clif bars?
I had one last night, and I have to say it’s pretty tasty, which leaves me skeptical about its value.
Don’t know about the nutritional value claims, but I picked one up at the store the other day and compared it side-by-side to a regular Snickers bar and the Marathon Bar was higher in total calories and fat but did seem to be lower in carbs! I like Snickers bars - sometimes get one as a reward for achieving/attaining training/competition goals, but I the price of those things was prohibitive at something like $2.25 a bar (could also buy them by the box) when a regular Snickers with less fat was only 79 cents!
Yeah, they’re definititely expensive individually, however, I saw them at Sam’s club for less than a dollar a bar in bulk (if I remember correctly). I compared them to another energy bar, and it didn’t seem to be much different. Like you said, I believe it had more calories, fat, however, it had a lot more protein as well.
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Did you respond to the right post here?
I used to love to eat a Snickers a day, but beginning Jan 1, I gave up eating anything with “partially hydrogenated oils” in it, which pretty much killed off the Snickers addiction. Oh, well…
Are you a shill for Powerbar or Clif, or are you just dyslexic? The marathon bar has 7g of fat (2g saturated) and a regular Snickers has 14g of fat, 5 saturated. Regular snickers has 34g carbs of which 28g are sugar, marathon has 32g of which 18g are sugar. Marathon has 9g of protein, regular snickers has 5. It’s also got 50 less calories, not more as you claim. They’re no more expensive at any given retailer than any other bar. I’m rather indifferent to the bar itself, it tastes fine, fairly snickers-like - might get a little melty in hot weather…my main concern is why you would want to spread such BS about the contents.
Face it…all bars that taste good are basically a heart attack in a package, filled with sat and trans fats and hydrogenated oils. Sadly, the now deceased Brian Maxwell had the perfect bar with the original powerbar, even though it tasted like sand. It still does taste pretty crappy, compared to the pseudo candybars out there, but it won’t clog your arteries like the others.
my main concern is why you would want to spread such BS about the contents.
Well I guess that struck a cord?
Sorry if I mis-spoke as I am not trying to spread disinformation - I like Snickers bars afterall but I will say that when I am on the bike, you will usually seem me pull a Kellogg yogart filled breakfast bar out of a rear jersey pocket, not a Cliff Bar or Powerbar! I think that maybe we are not comparing apples to apples - the Snickers product I saw was located in the nutrition section of the store and in recollection seemed to be about twice the size of what I would call a regular-sized Snickers - hence the comment about more calories and more fat but I can not accurately quantify the amounts or % RDA since I don’t recall the exact contents!
Michael
This makes me laugh because about 1995 what was called a Marathon chocolate bar in the UK became a Snickers candy bar. Same product, just a different name to standardise packaging and advertising for the manufacturers. Same thing happened when Opal Fruits became Starburst and Treets became Revels!
No, he’s trying to be a provocateur. He’s really just exposing himself as a sniping gutless jackass who makes personal attacks on others who value righteousness over selfishness.
It appears that you have a bar with you right now. Does it list High Fructose Corn Syrup to be one of the main ingrediants or some other type of sugar? I try to stay away from that. I noticed that Power Bars have a lot of that in it too. Cliff bars are my favorite. I find it hard to trust a candy bar manufacturer trying to capture another market.
jaretj
Yes, the Snickers Marathon is legitimately delicious, especially the peanut flavor. I had several free ones, courtesy of the St. A’s expo. Yes, they melt. But that does not detract from the taste. Probably not as good for you as the Powers and Cliffs, but they at least qualify as a “better bad choice”, especially if you’ve got a sweet tooth.
They taste good but are expensive. No idea about the nutritional value- pretty much a polished up candy bar.
Geez, who would have thought we would be paying $2.00 + for a candy bar? Heck, you can almost get a gallon of gas for that! Or, a liter of drinking water.
OH yeah - it’s got plenty of gooey High Fructose Corn Syrup, so I’d definitely put it more in the Balance Bar category (glorified candy bar) than Clif bars, which I delude myself into thinking are relatively healthy. The marathon’s saving graces if you can call them that are the lower fat, the protein, and the vitamins, but it’s still junk food, just like the aforementioned Kelloggs breakfast bars (plenty of HFCS and hydrogenated oils in those), and my favorite aside from Clif bars, Pop Tarts. But hey, as long as you ride enough, even donuts are good for you, right?
I’ve never seen one, but I do know that the Snickers bar used to be called “Marathon” in the UK & Ireland for a long time before some brand standardisation was engaged in. They were the same bar, just different names.
Not sure if that has any bearing on the issue at hand though 