Healthyroads introduces line of healthy snack bars

30/09/05 San Diego-based Healthyroads, Inc., recently unveiled a line of healthy snack bars that serve as a nutritious alternative to candy bars, cookies, and other snacks.

With a growing obesity epidemic and rising health care costs, employers seeking to help their employees make healthier nutrition choices can stock their worksite vending machines with healthy snacks, such as the Healthyroads snack bars, instead of snack foods that are high in sugar, trans-fat, and cholesterol.

Healthyroads snack bars contain no artificial sweeteners, preservatives, or colors. Each snack bar is 100-percent certified organic and is cholesterol- and transfat-free.

When compared with a leading chocolate, peanut, and caramel candy bar, Healthyroads snack bars contain fewer calories, less sodium and saturated fat and are lower in carbohydrates and sugars. Each Healthyroads snack bar contains between 3 and 6 grams of protein per each 1.4-ounce serving.

Healthyroads snack bars are available in four flavors: almond raisin, apple cinnamon, peanut, and cranberry crunch.

Healthyroads, Inc. is a subsidiary of American Specialty Health, Incorporated. ASH is the nation's leading specialty benefits organization for complementary health care, providing health benefits, health education, wellness, and affinity network programs to employer groups, trust funds, health plans, and insurance carriers nationwide. Based in San Diego, ASH has over 500 employees and more than 12.1 million members in benefit programs nationwide. ASH provides discount programs for more than 75 million members nationwide.

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