Many healthy eating enthusiasts prefer to make their own muesli for breakfast. A mixture consisting of cereals, dried fruits, nuts, bran, seeds, sprouts and other ingredients is considered very beneficial for the body.
Muesli can be raw or baked. Raw muesli consists of thermally unprocessed products. At the same time, the muesli baked during the production process is mixed and baked with juice, honey, and yogurt. They can have a crumbly consistency or come in pressed form. “Roots” bars are exactly those same pressed and baked muesli. Meanwhile, regardless of the form of release, their benefits do not become less.
History of Roots bars
The history of “Roots” bars began back in 1900 with the preparation of a tasty and healthy muesli mixture by a Swiss doctor, which he offered to taste to the patients of his clinic. They became especially popular in the 60s of the same century, and 10 years later the world’s first candy bar based on a mixture of cereals, nuts and dried fruits was made in America.
It was these events that served as the impetus for the creation of the Corny bar. This happened in 1984 at a confectionery factory in the city of Bad Schwartau (Germany), where delicious and healthy “Roots” bars, known throughout the world, have been produced for many years. To this day, all products of the brand undergo strict quality control to ensure compliance with high European requirements.
Varieties of “Roots” bars
You can find 2 types of “Roots” bars on sale. These are two completely different products, which are produced under the same brand name Corny, but at the same time they differ from each other in production technology, composition, taste, and packaging.
The Corny Big bar is available in a 50 g package. This is a real cereal product that tastes like baked and compressed muesli. On sale you can see the Corny Big bar with the flavors of cranberry, banana and chocolate, coconut and chocolate, milk chocolate, hazelnut, peanuts with chocolate, raisin and nut. Products with the word “chocolate” in their names are half covered with delicious glaze.
Milk bars (Corny Milk) are produced in packages weighing 30 g. They contain no more than 40% cereal flakes and a lot of milk, but this does not make them any less tasty and healthy. Korni Milk bars are produced with cocoa and classic milk flavors.
What types of cereal bars are there?
Of course, Corny Big bars are far from the only such products. In any hypermarket you will find other similar delicacies from different manufacturers. My choice of Corny Big bars was completely accidental. There was just a discount on them. Sometimes I use this opportunity to try out a new product. For example, this is how I discovered Frosch washing powder, or lived in Vera Fedorovna’s Guest House in Suzdal.
Of course, this does not mean that I indiscriminately grab any product with a “yellow price tag”. Corny bars attracted me because they do not contain artificial colors, stabilizers, preservatives or GMOs. At least that's what it says on the packaging.
In fact, this is the well-known muesli. Just not in the usual crumbly form, but soaked in a sweet sticky substance. Judging by the composition, it is honey, caramelized sugar syrup and glucose syrup with fructose.
The result is a very tasty bar that you can enjoy while drinking tea. Let's look at the composition of the cereal bar:
If the manufacturer is not lying, then it turns out that we are holding in our hands truly healthy food. Such a bar is much less harmful to our body than, say, a Snickers chocolate bar. Of course, it’s hard to call it definitely useful. After all, it still contains sugar, and as you know, it is a sweet poison.
However, given the choice between Snickers or Corny Big, I would choose the latter.
I especially liked the version with cranberries. Very tasty, interspersed with real berries, it will be a great addition to a cup of tea.
Of course, there is no comrade according to taste and color. My wife, for example, liked the hazelnut bar more, and my son liked the banana and chocolate bar.
There are probably other flavors, I just haven’t seen them on sale yet. If I find it, I will definitely buy it for testing and add to this report.
Manufacturer of Corny Big cereal bars - Germany. German quality can be trusted.
It should be kept in mind that you should not take the bars directly with your hands. They are sticky and soft. This is especially true if you decide to have a snack on the go. All the dirt from your hands will stick to the treat and then get inside. Such pranks do not always end harmlessly. For example, one day after an expedition to the largest highly toxic waste dump in Europe, called the White Sea, we decided to stop for a snack at McDonald's.
Realizing the danger of the place we were in, we washed our hands thoroughly before eating. However, this did not help. I had to stay at home for a whole week with terrible poisoning.
It’s not a fact that the same nasty thing will end up on your hands, but it’s quite possible to scratch some kind of “stick” on public transport. Therefore, try not to touch the bar itself with your hands. Hold him by the wrapping and help yourself.
Large bar “Roots”: composition and calorie content
Corny bars come in different flavors and have different ingredients. For example, cranberry-flavored candies are made from roasted whole grains, honey, sugar and dried cranberry pieces. In addition, this product contains: glucose syrup with fructose, cereal and corn flakes, sugar, coconut oil, acidity regulator citric acid, natural identical flavoring, emulsifier sunflower lecithin, salt. The calorie content of this bar is 388 kcal per 100. In general, the composition is not so harmless compared to a natural cereal mixture.
The “Roots” chocolate bar, which already has 448 kcal, has a slightly different composition. It contains not only valuable cereals, but also delicate milk chocolate. In addition, the product contains the following ingredients: glucose syrup, glucose syrup with fructose, crushed roasted peanuts, sugar, coconut oil, corn flakes, honey, salt, emulsifier sunflower lecithin, natural butterscotch flavor.
The calorie content of “Korni” bars with other flavors is 418-482 kcal.
Corny milk bars
Corny Milk bars are available in two flavors and differ slightly in composition and calorie content. At the same time, they are equally tasty and healthy.
The traditional Corny Milk bar is made with roasted whole grains, honey, rice flour, milk and corn flakes, as well as other ingredients that increase the shelf life of the product in the package. It is enriched with calcium, and its calorie content is 442 kcal per 100 g.
Cocoa-flavored Korney Milk bars will appeal more to those people who do not like milk. The calorie content of this product is 457 kcal. Cereal flakes, cocoa, milk, syrups, vegetable oil, vanilla extract, etc. are used in its production.
Lose weight with Corny Big bars
For many people, the problem of excess weight turns into a deeply hidden personal drama. Almost any person who has excess weight would like to become slimmer and more graceful.
I once already wrote about how I lost 5 kilograms during a two-week creative business trip to St. Petersburg. Spending most of the daylight hours on my feet, walking around the sights, I myself didn’t notice how well I had lost weight.
Unfortunately, not every person has the opportunity to devote enough time to physical activity. Sedentary work, traveling home and to the office by car, weekends spent on the couch - all this does not contribute to maintaining a healthy weight.
Let's try to calculate what will happen if we replace regular sweets, baked goods and other “bad excesses” that we regularly consume with tea with Corny Big bars.
There are 438 kilocalories in 100 grams of a cereal bar. Since the weight of the bar is only 50 grams, we divide 438 by 2 and get 219 kilocalories.
There are 507 kilocalories in 100 grams of a Snickers bar. Since the small bar weighs 50 grams, divide 507 by 2 and get 253 calories.
There seems to be little difference. But if we consider that during the day we sit down to drink tea about 4 times (breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack and dinner), then the total difference is 136 kilocalories. In 30 days we go through 4080 kilocalories. But this is two daily norms!
And this is a simple Snickers. There are more energy-intensive treats for tea.
Of course, simply “switching over” to cereal bars for successful weight loss is clearly not enough. However, such small and seemingly insignificant “drops” add up to success in the fight against excess weight.
“Roots” bars: benefits and harm to the body
The beneficial properties of the “Roots” bar for the body are as follows:
- pressed muesli is a valuable source of fast and slow carbohydrates, which help instantly satisfy hunger and maintain a feeling of fullness for a long time;
- the bars contain five valuable grains (oats, rice, corn, wheat and barley), which are rich in fiber and coarse dietary fiber, which have a beneficial effect on the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract;
- cereals, nuts, seeds, milk are important sources of vitamins necessary for the normal functioning of the heart, building the bone skeleton, and strengthening the nervous system;
- Thanks to Corny bars, vitality increases, performance increases, immunity is strengthened, and mood improves.
Meanwhile, tasty bars can bring not only benefits to the body, but also harm, since such nutrition often leads to weight gain. This, in turn, can negatively affect your health. Roots bars are contraindicated:
- people with diabetes, since such products are characterized by a high sugar content and have a high glycemic index;
- Persons with diseases of the stomach and intestines can only use the bars after consulting a doctor.
All other people are recommended to use them as a snack in moderation.
Corny bars: customer reviews
Most of the reviews that customers leave about Roots bars are positive. They consider them the healthiest snacks, unlike chips, crackers, etc. Buyers consider the composition of Korni bars to be balanced, with a high content of cereals and a minimal amount of vegetable fats. The bars have practical packaging; they are convenient to take with you to work, to school, and to use as a snack at any time. Their taste is pleasant.
The large “Roots” bar, which most often receives positive reviews, is liked by customers due to its cereal composition. This is a source of both fast and slow carbohydrates, which satisfy the feeling of hunger for a long time. In addition, coarse dietary fiber has an extremely positive effect on intestinal function.
Negative customer reviews about the bar are mainly associated with its high calorie content. Therefore, it is better for anyone who is watching their weight to avoid such a snack.
Conclusion
Corny Big cereal bars are a good substitute for traditional treats. They are quite tasty and easy to switch to. You know, when you force yourself to eat some tasteless rubbish instead of your usual food, sooner or later you still return to your normal diet. As a rule, no self-hypnosis about the usefulness of rubbish works.
Corny Big - delicious. I especially liked the cranberry one. A very bright and real taste that you want to return to again and again. Moreover, unlike other Corny bars, cranberry has only 194 kilocalories. As they say, it’s a small thing, but it’s nice.
Separately, I would like to note the absence of any harmful additives in the bars. At least that's what it says on the wrapper. I hope this is true.
The cost of the bars, of course, is slightly higher than traditional chocolate ones, but, as I mentioned at the beginning of the article, you have to pay for the pleasure.
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