Go Ahead Forest Fruit Crispy Fruit Biscuit Bars Multipack - 5 Packs of 3 Slices

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Being low in fat is one of the few positives about Go Ahead bars but that doesn’t make them healthy. Fibre content in Go Ahead bars Some of the ingredients in Go Ahead Fruit & Fibre Slices are the same as in Yoghurt Breaks, for example: There are some healthy ingredients in these bars such as wheat bran, oat fibre and citrus fibre but Yoghurt Breaks also contain sugar in different forms and questionable ingredients such as maltodextrin and maltitol. Go Ahead Fruit & Fibre Slices Ingredients

Although there is extra fibre added to Go Ahead bars, when you look at the fibre content per slice/bake, it’s only around 1 g. If you want to increase your daily fibre intake you would have to consume quite a lot of Go Ahead bars. The most worrying ingredients in Fruit & Fibre slices are sugar and maltodextrin. Go Ahead Fruit & Oat Bakes Ingredients These ingredients are not all that innocent. While fibre-rich ingredients such as oatmeal and vegetable fibre are good, different forms of sugar (glucose-fructose syrup and inverted sugar syrup) are not so good for you. Go Ahead Bars – Nutritional informationThe table below looks at the nutritional values of different types of Go Ahead bars. Which one do you think is the healthiest?

Step three - Tip the mixture into a lined baking tray and press down till it is all even, sprinkle the rest of the chocolate and cranberries on top pressing them on lightly.In our guide below we will go over the other syn allowances of the Go-Ahead bar range, some other low syn bar alternatives and how to make your own SW friendly breakfast bar for mornings when you are in a rush. Ever-so simple and a lot more tasty than it’s pet-name may suggest, Fruit Slice is a melt-in-the-mouth short crust pastry treat, loaded with currants and lashings of sugar. There’s something about us Scots and our love of questionable foods. Haggis is the obvious one (love it), Lorne sausage, macaroni pies, deep-fried Mars Bar and even Irn Bru cupcakes– Scotland is famed for it’s love of “unique” foods. And it could only be the Scots who would come up with a pet-name such as “Fly Cemetery” for a sweet little pastry treat like Fruit Slice. UK): Freepost McVities.(Outside UK): Pladis.(EU): PLDS Europe B.V.,Postbus 597,1500EN Zaandam,The Netherlands. As of today, there are actually quite a few variations of Go Ahead bars. These Include Yoghurt Breaks, Fruit Slices, Fruit & Fibre Slices and Fruit & Oak Bakes. The ingredients in each of these bars vary depending on the type of bar and flavour. We have included some of the most popular flavours and their ingredients below. Go Ahead Bar

Who could tell that these supposedly healthy cereal bars have such a long list of ingredients? It’s good to see dried fruits and fruit fillings at the beginning of the list but what about the rest of the ingredients? What are they? Yoghurt Breaks Ingredients Fruit & Fibre slices also contain rolled oats, wheat germ, raising agents, oatmeal flakes, dried potato flakes, cream (Milk), dextrose, and dietary fibre (Inulin). High-fat foods are classified as foods containing more than 17.5g of fat per 100g while low-fat foods are those containing 3 g of fat or less per 100g. This makes Go Ahead Fruit Slices and Fruit & Fibre slices low in fat while the rest of Go Ahead bars contain only slightly more fat per 100 g (and still less than 5 g per 100 g). UK): Freepost McVitie's. (Outside UK): Pladis. (EU): PLDS Europe B.V., Postbus 597, 1500EN Zaandam, The Netherlands.For people who don't have time to cook breakfast in the morning, these fruit crispy slices and oat bars make a convenient choice to have on the go, but with all the flavourings fruit and sugar per slice, they can be pretty unhealthy. Go Ahead Yogurt Breaks contain 71kcal per slice but since you are more likely to eat two slices in one day you will consume 142 kcal altogether. The main ingredients in Yoghurt Breaks are wheat flour, dried fruits and yoghurt coating containing sugar, dried milk and natural flavouring. These bars (Strawberry flavour) also contain the following: All Go Ahead bars are high in sugar with Yoghurt Breaks being the highest in sugar and Fruit & Oat Bake being the lowest. This is down to the high sugar content in the bars from the fruit paste and flavourings which make them higher in calories.