This is a heathy snack?

Shoppers Drug Mart - shapers Snack Bar

shapers Packaging detail

Somehow, this product is part of a "healthy weight loss plan". According to the packaging, "As part of healthy eating, this food may be an asset in achieving and maintaining a healthy body weight because it's portion controlled".

So, one bar is only 30 grams, about 60% of the size of a regular chocolate bar, and therefore only 100 calories. So it is apparently a healthier snack than a chocolate bar.

But the first ingredient is "Polydextrose" and the second is "Chocolate Flavoured Coating". And the primary oils, Palm and Palm Kernel, are both "modified". In 30 grams of snack bar there are 4 grams of fat and 9 grams of sugar. 13% of the bar is fat, and 30% is sugar.

So, while the size and thus the caloric content of the snack may be healthy, the ingredients don't really say healthy to me.

And the entire "healthy" claim is really based on people controlling how much they eat. So, if I eat more than one bar, the whole "healthy" claim is shot. I think that "healthy" would be better achieved by eating inherently healthier foods, fruit etc., not by eating smaller quantities of rubbish like this over processed bar.