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ENERGY BARS, BITES, AND COOKIES COMPILED BY NICOLE POTENZA DENIS buyers' picks Consumers are looking for quick foods that can fuel them and makers are responding with interesting energy products. Retailers say that those that taste good and have a clean ingredient panel are flying off store shelves. PHOTOS (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT): THINKTHIN; KIND; MARIA SAN ANDRES Jamie Boyachek, Healthy Habit, Phoenix, AZ • Garden of Life, Sport, Organic Plant-Based Performance Protein Bar • Go Raw Dark Chocolate Protein Bar • Go Raw Sweet Spirulina Sprouted Bar • Kind Breakfast Bars • Lärabar Fruits + Greens Doug Obenhaus, Royal River Natural Foods, Freeport, ME • Gomacro Macrobar Protein Purity, Sunflower Butter + Chocolate • Lärabar Bites • Lärabar Organic with Superfoods Bar • Rxbar Chocolate Sea Salt • Rxbar Peanut Butter Chocolate Dan Devine, Honest Green Market, Providence, RI • Gomacro Bars • Luna Protein Bar • Orgain Organic Protein Bars, S'mores • Rxbar Bars • thinkThin Protein Bites "Customers look for energy bars that are raw or have a decent protein content and have fewer ingredients." —Doug Obenhaus, Royal River Natural Foods, Freeport, ME "People really like the Paleo-friendly bars that are high in protein and low in sugar, fats, and calories." —Alex Noskov, ProHealth Pharmacy, New York City 12 ❘ SPECIALTY FOOD MAGAZINE specialtyfood.com