Starbucks Protein & Snack Bars Menu USA

Three of the nine are not listed for pickup at the reference store and show no price. Everything here is sold sealed; the Perfect Bars live in the cold case because they are made with real peanut butter and no preservatives.

Perfect Bar Peanut Butter

The Perfect Bar Peanut Butter is ground peanut butter, honey and a whole-food powder, kept refrigerated. 340 calories, 17 g of protein, 19 g of sugar, $4.95. It is the most protein on the shelf and the closest thing to a meal.

• Best for: a post-workout stop or a skipped lunch.
• Allergens: Egg, Milk, Peanuts, Sesame.

Perfect Bar Dark Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter

The Perfect Bar – Dark Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter is the same bar with dark chocolate chips and sea salt, 330 calories and 15 g of protein at the same price.

CirC Peanut Chocolate Chip Protein Bites

The CirC Peanut Chocolate Chip Protein Bites are a pouch of date, oat and peanut bites, 210 calories with 10 g of protein for $3.65. Lighter than a Perfect Bar and easier to share.

KIND Salted Caramel & Dark Chocolate Nut Bar

The KIND Salted Caramel & Dark Chocolate Nut Bar is whole cashews and pecans bound with caramel and chocolate, 200 calories, 5 g of sugar, $2.55. The lowest sugar of the sweet bars.

KIND Almond Coconut Cashew Chai

The KIND - Almond Coconut Cashew Chai adds chai spice to almonds, cashews and toasted coconut, 200 calories and 5 g of protein. Not listed for pickup at the reference store.

All In Madagascar Vanilla, Honey & Almonds Bar

The All In Madagascar Vanilla, Honey & Almonds Bar is a soft vanilla and almond bar with smoked salt, 170 calories and 6 g of sugar for $2.55.

Floura Blueberry Matcha Fiber Bar

The Floura Blueberry Matcha Fiber Bar is the odd one out: a bar built around fiber rather than protein, 15 g of it from a dozen plant sources, with blueberry and matcha flavor. 160 calories, 7 g of sugar, $3.65.

• Best for: anyone tracking fiber rather than protein.

The two That's It bars are exactly what the name says: apples pressed with mango or with blueberries, nothing else. 100 calories, 23 g of fruit sugar in the That's It – Apple + Mango Bar and 19 g in the That's It – Apple + Blueberry Bar, no protein to speak of, no nuts, no gluten. Neither is listed for pickup at the reference store.

• Best for: a child, a nut-free lunchbox, or a sweet bite with no added sugar.
• Not for: a protein hit; there is almost none.

The Perfect Bars lead on protein and on sugar at once, because honey is the binder. The KIND salted caramel gives the best protein-to-sugar balance of the sweet bars, and the fiber bar is the low-sugar pick with a purpose of its own.

Two of the nine declare allergens outright, both Perfect Bars with Egg, Milk, Peanuts, Sesame. The KIND and All In bars are tree nut bars by definition and the CirC bites contain peanuts, even where the reference data shows no formal line. The That's It bars and the Floura bar are the nut-free choices. On gluten: the fruit bars, the KIND bars and the Perfect Bars are gluten free as labeled by their makers; the CirC bites contain oats.

A bar is the snack for someone who wants to know what they are eating. A Chocolate Chip Cookie from the case is 370 calories with 31 g of sugar and 5 g of protein; a Perfect Bar Peanut Butter is 340 calories with 17 g of protein. Same calories, three times the protein, and the bar keeps in a bag for a week.