Brace yourself! I’ve just discovered three of the greatest new healthy snack bars of all time: Nākd Cocoa Delight, Nākd Cocoa Mint and Nākd Berry Delight. (Although I didn’t really like the mint version, having an aversion to the combination of mint and chocolate, but others loved them). The manufactueres believe they are going to take the healthy snacking market by storm.

So what’s the big difference from other bars? Nearly all so-called ‘healthy’ snack bars on the market rely on intense heat-processing, refined sugary syrups and mysterious additives. Take a look for yourself; your typical cereal bar, for example, has between 15 to 30 ingredients, many of which are completely unrecognisable and several of which are often just various types of sugar. Despite what decades of slick marketing and packaging seeks to imply, heavily processed, syrup-laden and additive filled is not a credible recipe for ‘healthy’.

These new Nākd bars, on the other hand, are made with a wholefood approach. Instead of heavy processing, sugary syrups and mysterious additives, Nākd bars rely on raw fruit, nuts and natural flavours rolled together. That’s it. Simply wholefoods rolled together and nothing else. Literally, any more natural and you’d have to peel them. Consequently, they are genuine nutritional powerhouses bursting with natural raw nutrients, are wheat, dairy and gluten free, vegan and count towards one of your five a day. They are as different health-wise from most snack bars as freshly squeezed orange juice is from fizzy orange.

And they actually taste fantastic! Flavourful and satisfying – almost too good to be true; you have to taste them to believe it!

Nākd bars are widely available in Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Waitrose, Boots, Holland & Barrett and independent health food shops.

Nākd Cocoa Mint Ingredients: Raw dates, raw cashews, raw raisins, cocoa, natural flavour
Nākd Cocoa Delight Ingredients: Raw dates, raw cashews, raw raisins, cocoa, natural flavour
Nākd Berry Delight Ingredients: Raw dates, raw cashews, raw raisins, raw raspberries, natural flavour