When you are just starting to take the "healthy route," walking down the grocery aisle can be overwhelming. Protein bars, energy bars, diet bars, meal-replacement bars, gendered bars, bars for your brain, you name it! You may be wondering if there are any potential benefits to eating these health bars, and the good news is, there definitely are.

Laura Harris, founder and CEO of Greens Gone Wild, introduced a new product to the market. An energy bar that incorporates spinach and various greens into one nutritional bite. We invited her on the show today to talk more about the product.

 
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Greens On The Go: The Right Mix of Protein, Calories and Flavor with Laura Harris
Welcome to Action’s Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. In case it’s not obvious from my other episodes or if this is the first one you’re listening to, I live in Colorado and Colorado is known for being a pretty active and health-conscious state. I think I’ve seen on multiple occasions, maybe not the latest numbers, that we have the lowest obesity rate in the country and that’s something I’m pretty proud of. Now, my guest today, Laura Harris, recently introduced a new product to the market, a product called Greens Gone Wild, which is an energy bar that incorporates spinach as well as other greens for various health outcomes and I will let Laura describe it herself instead of being in the business of trying to translate someone’s business from their conversations and their website.

 
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Laura, welcome to the program.

 

Thank you so much. I’m happy to be here. How’s your day been today?

 

Day has been pretty good. Weirdly enough, yesterday, I went storm chasing, something I haven’t done in a little while.

 

Very cool. Where was the storm?

 

Near the town --- between the towns of La Junta and Lamar in southeast Colorado, which is a part of the state that a lot of people don’t think about or go to that often. 

 

That’s so cool.

 

I actually submitted a picture of inch-and-a-half-sized hail to the Twitter account of the National Weather Service so I did my part in weather verification too.

 

That’s awesome. Have you been able to submit other photos previously?

 

Yeah, yeah. All you have to do is @ whichever National Weather Service office’s zone you’re in so if you get hail at your house, @NWSBoulder is our local office and you can --- usually I like to put like the hailstone next to an object of known size, like a dime, a quarter, something like that.

 

That makes sense too because then you really get to see, well, just the magnitude of the size of hail.

 

Yeah. And the bonus, of course, is that if you’re at your home and then eventually need an insurance claim verified for getting a new roof, that’s your proof right there.

 

That’s a good call. Now, did you have any spinach packed protein bars with you while you were storm chasing?

 

So, unfortunately, I did not. I made the mistake of relying on gas station snacks, which meant Chex Mix, and, yeah, I could have been quite a bit healthier. But that’s a great segue for us to talk about these spinach packed protein bars that you introduced to the market. Was it last year or earlier this year?

 

It was actually the summer of 2019, so June 1st was our first sales day and we did the Colorado Fresh Market circuit plus Sloan's Lake and it was so exciting, so busy, and we had a lot of great people loving what we were doing.

 

Explain to us a little bit about these spinach packed protein bars that are sweeping across grocery stores in Colorado now.

 

I love that.

At Greens Gone Wild, we created spinach packed protein bars. They’re vegan, gluten-free, non-GMO, soy-free with no refined or added sugars. You’ll get a full serving of spinach in every single shelf-stable bar.

They taste amazing. They’re super chewy.