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Low Sugar Protein Bars: What Replaces the Sugar?

Audio from the Clean Food Score video of the same name; the video shows the labels and scores on screen.

Compare protein bar labels and sweeteners
Low sugar protein bars get their sweetness from allulose, sugar alcohols, monk fruit or sucralose, and only one of those is flagged by our checker. We compare real labels from Quest, ONE, Pure Protein and Fiber One, explain the FDA sugar claims and the allulose rule, and show the date sweetened alternative (as of October 2026).

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Chapters
0:00 Two Bars, One Word Apart
0:22 The Sugar Words and the Sweeteners
1:42 Real Labels, Real Swaps
2:41 Where Low Sugar Bars Lose Points
3:22 The Other Route: Dates
4:02 Picking a Low Sugar Bar
4:41 Your Turn

Product scores are Clean Food Score's 0–100 label scores as shown on cleanfoodscore.com on 2026-10-16. Recipes change, so read the package you buy. We read labels; this is not medical advice.

Music
"Almost Bliss" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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"Reminiscing" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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"Friday Morning" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Sound effects: Kenney (kenney.nl), CC0.

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