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Passing the Bar On Nutrition

(By Julia Ewan -- The Washington Post)

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· What We Tested All-Bran Honey Oat Bars, All-Bran Oatmeal Raisin Bars, Cinnamon Toast Crunch Milk 'n' Cereal Bars, Cocoa Puffs Milk 'n' Cereal Bars, Honey Bunches of Oats Cranberry Almond Low-Fat Cereal Bars, Honey Nut Cheerios Bars, Nutri-Grain Banana Muffin Bars, Raisin Bran Cereal Bars, Special K Vanilla Crisp Bars, South Beach Diet Chocolate High Protein Cereal Bars; Trix Milk 'n' Cereal Bars.

· Winners Special K Vanilla Crisp (90 calories per bar, no trans fat) was the winner for best taste and least calories. Many testers also gave high marks to Honey Bunches of Oats Cranberry Almond Cereal Bars and to the two All-Bran bars.

· Loser The South Beach Diet bars. "Dog food with chocolate," wrote one tester. "I'd rather eat Metamucil than this one," noted another, who gave the bar a minus one on a scale of one (yuck) to 10 (great).

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