Introduction to Jimmy Joy Plenny Bar v3.0

Plenny Bar is a 100% vegan meal bar that’s exactly 400 kcal. It’s made of natural and plant-based ingredients like oats, rice, soy, rapeseed oil, brown flaxseed, and chicory fibre. We’ve also added our custom blend of 26 vitamins & minerals and probiotics. As a result, each bar contains a whopping 175 health benefits. And no, that’s no typo! That’s backed up by research from the European Food Safety Authority. 

You can get Plenny Bar in 4 delicious flavors.

• Vanilla
• Chocolate
• Caramel Sea Salt 
• Lemon Pie

Nutritional breakdown

Ingredients

• Oats
• Dehydrated rice extract
• Soy protein crisp (soy protein isolate, tapioca starch, stabiliser: calcium carbonate, salt)
• Rapeseed oil
• Milled brown flaxseed
• Soy protein isolate
• Humectant: glycerine
• Chicory fiber (~3.8%)
• Rice syrup
• Custom blend of 26 vitamins and minerals
• Natural flavouring
• Bacillus coagulans
• Sweetener: sucralose 

All flavors contain the previous ingredients, yet the tasty flavors are thanks to the following:

Vanilla: 

• Natural flavouring

Chocolate: 

• Cocoa powder
• Cacao nibs 
• Natural flavoring

Caramel Sea Salt

• Natural flavoring
• Sea salt

Lemon Pie

• Natural flavoring
• Lemon powder

Protein

Protein functions as essential building-blocks for different structures in your body. To ensure that you get enough of this nutrient, an amount of 0,8 grams of protein per kg body weight per day is recommended [1,2].

Plenny Bar contains 20g of protein per serving, which fits perfectly within this recommendation. The main source of protein is soy, which is considered the best vegan protein source due to its digestibility and absorption rate, and because it contains all nine essential amino acids. You can read more about this here!

Fat

Among other things, fat contributes to a well-functioning brain and muscles. That’s why Plenny Bars have an average of 18 grams of fat per serving [3]. Although oats and soy bring a little bit of fat to the mix, rapeseed oil is high in monounsaturated fats, containing more omega 9 than omega 6. It also provides omega-3, which when combined with flaxseed provides 1480mg per meal. 

Carbohydrates

Carbohydrates provide your body with glucose, the main source of energy for your body. A daily intake of around 130 grams is recommended [4,5]. One Plenny Bar contains approximately 38 grams of carbohydrates, which fits perfectly within this recommendation. The main source of carbohydrates in Plenny Bars is oats.

As you may know, carbohydrates increase your blood sugar levels after digestion. This can be measured by the glycemic index, which is high when easily digestible carbohydrates are consumed, and lower when carbohydrates with a more complex structure are consumed [6,7]. Plenny Bar has a low GI of 33.8, which means a slow energy release: the carbohydrates will enter your bloodstream slowly and steadily. No energy peak or crash! In addition, oats are rich in beta-glucan, which slows down your digestion [8].

So what about sugar? Plenny Bars have an average of 4,8 grams of sugar per 100 grams. This is well below the recommended upper limit of 10 E% sugar [9]. The vanilla, chocolate, caramel sea salt and lemon pie bars are low in sugar. 

Fibers 

Plenny Bar is high in fiber! Each bar accounts for 6-8 grams of fiber*, sourced from oats chicory fiber and soy protein crisps. Fiber consumption increases satiety, controls your digestion, and improves the health of your intestinal bacteria, of which you can read more about here.

*Vanilla: 7.6 grams, Chocolate 6.0 grams, Caramel Sea salt: 8.0 grams

Micronutrients

Every Plenny Bar has 26 vitamins and minerals in amounts that are ideal for absorption and recommended by the European Food Safety Authority [10]. These micronutrients play an important role in most of the processes happening in your body, such as cellular functions, neurotransmission, fluid balance, and tissue structure [11].

Can’t wait to benefit from the tasty and nutritional advantages of the Plenny Bar? Make your order here!

Micronutrients per bar (100g) 

Vitamins and minerals                                  Per portion                 RI* (%)

*% of the daily reference intake for vitamins and minerals

Last but not least, Probiotics

We wanted to add extra functional benefits to our meals. Probiotics came into our thoughts because of their ability to possibly enhance and strengthen our gut microbiome. Because of the high fiber content in Plenny bars, they have a symbiotic effect, meaning that probiotics become more resistant and provide a more substantial health effect thanks to the fibres which they eat and live from, so basically, one ingredient strengthens the other one, sweet right? 

Sources

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10. Regulation (EU) No. 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Provision of Food Information to consumers. [Internet]. Nov 22, 2011. Available from: https://faolex.fao.org/docs/pdf/eur128444.pdf
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