{"id":4009,"date":"2013-05-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/food-foodie-friday-carrot-cake-bars\/"},"modified":"2013-05-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T00:00:00","slug":"food-foodie-friday-carrot-cake-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/food-foodie-friday-carrot-cake-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"Foodie Friday: Carrot Cake Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"
My favorite kind of cake? Carrot cake<\/a>. It’s moist, colorful, and you get to sneak in a serving of veggies (carrots, of course) plus protein (from the nuts).<\/p>\n You obviously can’t have cake every day, but you can have the next best thing: Carrot cake bars!<\/p>\n Luna<\/a> just launched their new spring flavor, Carrot Cake, which has 8 grams of protein, 3 grams of fiber, and only 180 calories for a guilt-free and energizing treat. This carrot cake bar is definitely a healthier alternative to real carrot cake<\/a>. Specifically, it has 142 fewer calories, 4 more grams of protein, and 1.5 more grams of fiber.<\/p>\n It also contains calcium<\/a>, vitamin D, folic acid<\/a>, and iron.<\/p>\n At the first bite, I tasted cinnamon and you can see little specks of carrots in the bar. It was both crunchy, from the soy rice crisps, and chewy, from the raisins.<\/p>\n I actually wish there were more raisins! I also didn’t taste much of the walnuts, but the flavor was similar enough to carrot cake that I was happy.<\/p>\n Oh, and did I mention the thin drizzle of icing over the top of the bar and the light frosting coating on the bottom? It gave it a light vanilla flavor without going overboard with sweetness.<\/p>\n Here are a few other brands that offer Carrot cake bar varieties:<\/p>\n Clif Bar:<\/strong> Larabar:<\/strong> Read more: <\/strong><\/p>\n My favorite kind of cake? Carrot cake. It’s moist, colorful, and you get to sneak in a serving of veggies (carrots, of course) plus protein (from the nuts). You obviously can’t have cake every day, but you can have the next best thing: Carrot cake bars! Luna just launched their new spring flavor, Carrot Cake, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
One Clif Bar<\/a> has 240 calories, 10 grams of protein,and 5 grams of fiber.<\/p>\n
One Larabar<\/a> has 190 calories, 3 grams of protein, and 4 grams of fiber.<\/p>\n\n