Top 5 Socially Conscious Snack Bars
By Alexina Prather
Now that the fall semester has officially begun, snacks are an essential part of a busy student’s diet. Luckily, as snack eaters, there are many different options that can keep you prepared for long hours in the library. Each day you have the ability to make choices that can lead to impacting people around the world. So next time you need to satisfy your snack craving, think about the impact you can make. Listed below are delicious snacks that also have social missions. Instead of grabbing a random snack, think about the choices you have and grab one listed here!
- New Grounds Food – Founded by Northeastern University’s very own Johnny Fayad and Ali Kothari, New Grounds Food has developed a creative way to eat your coffee. CoffeeBar is an all-natural bar that, along with containing many delicious ingredients, contains a full cup of coffee. The last 25,000 CoffeeBars sold supported thirty students in Nicaragua for a full year of school. This upcoming year each purchased bar is going to provide a meal for a student or subsidize a course for a coffee producer to improve his/her business.
- 2 Degrees Food – 2 Degrees Food recognizes that hungry children might be physically far away from consumers in the U.S., but through this bar they are only two degrees away. Using the Buy-One-Give-One model, 2 Degrees Food works with nonprofit organizations to deliver food to children in need by feeding a hungry child for every bar bought. To date, they have donated over 1,000,000 meals. Each bar is vegan, gluten free, low in sodium, GMO free, kosher, and contains natural ingredients.
- This Bar Saves Lives – For every This Bar Saves Lives bar that is purchased, their nonprofit partner makes a life-saving pack of food for a child in need. This snack bar goes beyond reducing hunger by using PlumpyNut® for treatment of malnutrition and Nutributter® for malnutrition prevention in developing countries. Each bar is both GMO and Gluten Free, and the ingredients are sourced from Fair Trade Farms.
- Bumble Bar – Bumble Bar cares about creating delicious bars while doing the right thing for people and for the planet. Following the People, Profit, Planet concept that has grown in popularity among socially responsible businesses, the BumbleBar provides living wage job opportunities in their community in Spokane, WA. Additionally, they strive to purchase all ingredients directly from farmer owned co-ops in Indonesia, Turkey, Nicaragua, Canada and Honduras.
- Kutoa – Kutoa uses the Buy-One-Give-One model to feed hungry and malnourished children living in local U.S. communities and around the world. Each snack bar purchased will provide Micronutrient Packs, Plumpy’nut Packs, KUTOA Bars, KUTOA Kids Squares, or healthy sandwiches to kids depending on their age. Kutoa, meaning, “to give” in Swahili, has committed over 500,000 meals to children in need.
