One All-In-One Organic Plant Based Shake Powder Drink Mix French Vanilla - 58.1 oz. Vega

 Vega - PLant Based Protein Snack Bars Chocolate Caramel - 12 Count

Vega Protein Snack Bars Chocolate Caramel contain chewy layers of plant-based protein, all made with real plant-based food ingredients. You’ll enjoy 10 grams of plant-based protein from pea and brown rice protein, and nuts, as well as 16% DV for fiber from ingredients like inulin, rice starch and nuts.

• 10 grams plant-based protein, 4 grams of fiber, for under 200 calories
• Made with real, plant-based food ingredients, your new favorite on-the-go gluten-free snack
• No artificial flavors, colors or sweeteners, non-GMO Project verified, gluten-free, and certified vegan
• Indulge in crave-worthy flavors
• Chocolate Caramel flavor
• Includes 12 bars 
• Vegan
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Protein+ Snack Bar Frequently Asked Questions

What is “natural flavor”?
Their flavors are natural. Natural flavors include a variety of compounds obtained from the natural essence or extracts of plants to produce the characteristic flavor and aromatic sensation of the intended (and labeled) flavor.  The essences and extracts can be from a spice, fruit or fruit juice, vegetable or vegetable juice, herb, bark, bud, root, leaf or similar plant material, but always exclusively plant-based, and never artificial. These natural flavor blends are proprietary.

How many of these can you eat per day? Can you use this as a meal replacement bar?
Even good things should be enjoyed in moderation and they suggest you eat Vega Protein+ Snack Bar as part of a balanced diet. Many people enjoy one per day. If you have questions about your specific nutrition needs, it’s best to talk to your health care practitioner. 

Where is Vega Protein+ Snack Bar made?
The ingredients in Vega Protein+ Snack Bar products are sourced primarily from North America and Europe.  Vega’s manufacturing and packaging facilities for these bars is in the United States.

Why are they using so many different types of sugar, including agave?
They use various sweeteners in Vega Protein+ Snack Bar to get the best-tasting, bar that used gluten-free, vegan, minimally-refined sweeteners. You’ll find in Vega Protein+ Snack Bar organic brown rice syrup, organic sugar (an ingredient in the dark chocolate coating), organic tapioca syrup (a grain-free sweetener made from the cassava root), organic agave, organic date paste (as a whole food source of sweetness and carbohydrate energy), and palmyra sugar.

What is palmyra sugar?
This sugar is the sap of Palmyra palm, and has B12. It also adds a sweet and adds a pleasant, subtle taste of brown sugar to the bars.

What Sustainability Means to Vega
At Vega, they want to change the world. And changing the world starts with them. Their passion for plant-based nutrition is as much about empowering health as it is about supporting the health of the planet. But sustainability isn't just about what goes into their products-sustainability must be part of everything they do. They want to be a company that leaves a net zero carbon footprint. Come join them on their Journey to Zero.

Journey to Zero
It's one thing to say you want to be a company that leaves a net-zero carbon footprint. It's quite another to take real actions toward that goal. Journey to Zero is Vega's name for their process of taking actions and being accountable to this goal.

You can't improve what you don't measure. And because they mean business when it comes to the planet, they treat their carbon footprint as a real indicator of their performance. They started with a complete corporate environmental sustainability audit and used the results to create Vega's Sustainability Action Plan.

Every small change they make is a step on their Journey to Zero-and they take each of them so seriously that they've woven this process of making steps on this journey through the fabric of everything they do. Their ingredients, their packaging, their office, their suppliers-each of these represents an opportunity to innovate, improve, and bring them closer to their goal.

Ingredients
Vega's passion for clean, plant-based nutrition that's good for your body and fuels your healthy, active life isn't the only reason Vega products are exclusively plant-based-it's also a reflection of their commitment to the planet.

What you eat can make a bigger impact on the planet than any other choice you make.

Reducing your personal carbon footprint involves a whole lot more than just how big a car you drive on your morning commute. In fact, what you eat can make a bigger impact on the planet than any other choice you make.

Whole, plant-based foods provide far greater nutrition relative to their real production cost from seed-to-plate when compared to processed, non-plant-based options. Or, in the words of their formulator, Brendan Brazier, they have a significantly lower nutrient-to-resource and nutrient-to-emissions ratio.

Your carbon footprint shrinks with every plant-based meal you choose.

Reducing your impact on the planet is simple-just start with one (plant-based meal a day, that is). Whether you're dipping your toe into the Meatless Monday routine, or you're a card-carrying raw vegan localvore, every plant-based meal you choose makes a dent.

Packaging
Through their sustainability audits, they've identified packaging as their single largest source of CO2 emissions-in 2012, packaging materials accounted for 71% of Vega's total carbon footprint. Why? Because until then, like every other company in their industry, most of what they made at Vega came in a plastic bottle-bottles made from virgin HDPE plastic, derived from greenhouse-gas generating, non-renewable petroleum.

In 2013 they switched to 100% post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic bottles. Vega was the first in their category to switch from virgin HDPE plastic bottles to 100% PCR plastic bottles. With this one step, over just one year Vega:

• Saved 278 tons of CO2 - 63% less CO2 greenhouse gas than virgin plastic. This much CO2 could fill 353 parade balloons, making a balloon-only parade 4 miles long.
• Diverted 233 tons of plastic from the waste stream. Made into Vega bottles stacked end-to-end, that's a stack 58 times the height of Mount Everest.
• Used 14,865 million BTUs less energy - 86% less energy than virgin plastic. That's enough energy saved to run 140 average detached single family homes in America for a year.

Plus, Vega's 100% PCR HDPE plastic bottles are still fully recyclable. There are no silver bullets in life, or on their Journey to Zero, but every choice they make matters. Vega lives their commitment to constant improvement by pursuing perfection, one small change at a time.

Vega Frequently Asked Questions

Can someone with diabetes eat Vega products?
This is a simple question with a not-so-simple answer, since every person living with diabetes has unique needs. Whether you have Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes it's always best to work with to your health care practitioner to find out what foods fit into your individualized diet and personal activity level.

Are Vega products organic?
This is a great question! When you check out the ingredient panel of their labels, you'll see "organic" in front of the specific ingredients that are certified organic. Why aren't all of their ingredients certified organic? They source organic ingredients where possible. They maintain a focus on small scale, domestic suppliers wherever possible to help out the little guys. They believe in finding suppliers that have similar core values to Vega with whom they can build long-lasting partnerships. These suppliers may provide them with organically grown raw materials free from herbicides and pesticides, but might not have their organic certification. Organic certification is an extensive process that can be cost prohibitive for some of these smaller scale farms. Sustainability and sustainably grown ingredients is something that is very important to Vega.

Can someone who is pregnant take Vega products?
They always recommend you check with your healthcare practitioner on whether or not you personally should use Vega products while pregnant or breastfeeding. They'll have a better scope of your overall health and wellness goals, and whether you are introducing a new food or supplement into your routine or continuing your current intake. If you are aware of any sensitivities or allergies to any ingredients in Vega products, they definitely recommend avoiding that product-whether you are pregnant or not.

Can Vega products be mixed with dairy?
Being a plant-based company, Vega recommends non-dairy beverages such as almond, hemp, coconut, or rice milk with your favorite Vega product, but that doesn't mean you can't mix it with whatever you have in the fridge!

Why aren't the tubs full?
You may wonder why Vega isn't filling their tubs right to the top of the brim or why they don't make a smaller tub to fit the amount of the powder found inside. The truth is, when the tubs are filled, they're actually full. It's not until they've been sealed and shipped out to you that the powder begins to settle and become more compressed. Just like pillows, (or bag of chips) Vega protein powders settle, compress, and appear to not fill the tubs upon opening. But you can be guaranteed that every scoop still contains the nutrition you're looking for.

About Vega

Vega's Story
Born from the belief that you shouldn't have to choose between clean, plant-based nutrition and on-the-go convenience, Vega is a premium brand of convenient, plant-based, real-food alternatives. They strive to give you the knowledge and nutrition to help you be better on your own terms-one small change at a time. And they're rooting for you, every step along the way.

Who They Are
It takes a cup of vision, a scoop of determination, a pound of curiosity, an ounce of innovation, and a dash of serendipity to make their foodscape better, one small step at a time. Empowering the world to thrive might sound a little bombastic as a vision, but isn't one they take lightly-everything Vega does as a brand is sincerely driven by their four part mission:

• To share their passion for clean, plant-based nutrition through education and leading by example;
• To deliver premium, innovative, industry-leading wellness solutions to their valued customers;
• To live their commitment to constant improvement by pursuing perfection, one small change at a time;
• To foster a fulfilling, inspiring workplace for Vegatopians that's sustainable for their people, their company, and their planet.

But these are just words on paper. It takes embodiment of this vision and mission to make the world-and their food-better. Their employees (referred to as Vegatopians) live and breathe Vega's vision and mission through the core values we all created together. The attitude, passion and dedication of Vegatopians is the secret to Vega's success. But don't just take their word for it -let Vegatopians show you.

How They Got Here
The key ingredients of vision, determination and serendipity combined when Brendan Brazier and Charles Chang founded Vega. As a professional triathlete, Brendan Brazier recognized that nutrition made good athletes, great. As he self-experimented with different diet types, he realized that clean, plant-based nutrition was the competitive advantage he needed. After meeting Sequel Naturals founder Charles Chang, Brendan pitched the concept of an all-in-one nutritional shake that did not compromise quality, nourishing ingredients for convenience. Just like that, Vega's first product-Whole Food Health Optimizer-was born. And that was just the beginning.

Since 2001, Vega has been groundbreakers in the plant-based natural health and performance products industry. From Whole Food Health Optimizer, they've expanded to create a range of clean, plant-based nutrition products to help you be better-on your own terms.

Where They're Going
Vega is proud to be recognized as one of the fastest growing-and best companies to work for-year after year. Vega's performance is driven by core values centered around integrity, passion, ownership, teamwork, goal setting, and sustainability. Their goal is to provide convenient plant-based products, made from real, whole food ingredients to support your health-without having a negative impact on the planet's health.