The Best Plant-Based Bars

Whether you’re swerving dairy or just trying to work a little more plant protein into your diet, these bars scored well for macros and quality ingredients. They’re as good for your desk drawer as they are for your gym bag.

BEST ALL-ROUNDER Veloforte Mocha Hazelnut, Coffee & Cocoa, £2.99 each

Score: 8.3/10

Made from 100% natural ingredients – rare for a protein bar – this was a hit with our panel. Ingredients such as hazelnuts, dates, coffee bean and cocoa provide texture and flavour, while pea and rice proteins combine to dish out the full spectrum of amino acids for recovery, with 10g of protein in total. Our testers commended it for its spot-on salty-sweet, crunchy-creamy balance, and reported that it kept them full and fuelled.

BEST FOR FLAVOUR Tribe Peanut Salted Caramel Triple Decker, £2.19 each

Score: 8.2/10

Tribe offers a range of protein-based bars, but the peanut salted caramel is our MVP. Testers liked the use of natural ingredients (including pea protein, chicory fibre, buckwheat and chia seeds) and found the combination of sweet caramel and crunchy nut butter delicious. At 8g per bar, it’s not got the highest protein count, but it all helps – and it’s fortified with vits and minerals, too.

BEST FOR THE OFFICE Xite Vegan Nootropic Salted Caramel Protein Bar, £1.80 each

Score: 7.1/10

This is a protein bar with a difference. It contains nootropic ingredients

(those linked with brain function), including choline, panax ginseng, bacopa monnieri and lion’s mane, which have been correlated with improvements in memory and cognition. Research into nootropics is still in its infancy, but the 18g of plant protein alone makes this bar a clever choice.