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Originally Posted by Dinie89
Do all quest bars work as restricted items? Specifically the cookies and cream one ? - are the chips restricted as well??
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Quest chips are NOT restricted
You can have them twice per day if you want!
However not all Quest Bars would be a
regular restricted.
Some would be
super-restricted (once/weekly) - or not at all, due to calorie count, fat count, or carb count.
Read your labels carefully. If it is over 30% fat or over 200 calories, this would
not be a regular restricted. You can find all the info you need to evaluate a product in Post #1 of this thread.
Specifically regarding the Cookies and Cream bar:
It is 180 calories
60 from fat.
Depending on your math, that is 33% fat or 30%
Most accurate math:
Fat calories/total calories * 100 = percentage of fat
60/180 * 100 = 33.33%
Some people use a simpler approach:
Calories from fat x 3 (not exact but close enough for a quick calculation).
Personally, I would call this bar a super-restricted because it is over 30% fat.
The S'mores one ROCKS but save it for maintenance. It is almost 40% fat.
And the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough flavor is 37% fat.
My personal favorite regular-restricted Quest bars are the Cinnamon Roll, Double Chocolate Chunk (31% fat but only 160 cals), and Chocolate Peanut Butter. I also like the Strawberry Cheesecake. I've never developed a taste for the Lemon Cream Pie bar, which is also one of their lower calorie bars.
Some people consider the (few) Quest Bars with 160 calories to be non-restricted. But since fat content is almost 30%, I choose to call them restricted.