While these won't be hitting the shelves any time soon, the food scientists at Pepsi Co. & Quaker have applied for a patent that might make such a concoction a reality.
We already eat chocolate chips in our granola bars, so is sugar candy the next step? If so, we never would have guessed on Pop Rocks. Just imagine how strangely fizzy your mid-morning snack could be.
What other crazy things can you think of to put in a granola bar — or what things should never go in a granola bar. Sound off in the comments!
→ Read more. PepsiCo Wants to Patent Granola Bars Stuffed With Pop Rocks from Grub Street
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Baked. Chewy. Delicious.
12g Fiber.
Heart Healthy*. 3g Fat Per Bar.
Net wt. 1.6 oz. (45g).
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Gnu Bars. For Every Fiber Of Your Being.
One bar deliciously provides almost 50% Of The Daily Value Of Fiber.
Smile, Gnu Bars promote Natural Regularity, support Heart Health* and a whole lot More.
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If you cooked a meal, stored it in a stifling hot warehouse, dropped it out of an airplane, dragged it through the mud, left it out with bugs and vermin, and ate it three years later, nothing would happen-if it were an MRE.
The Meal, Ready-to-Eat (MRE) has evolved over years of intense research and product development to be what's considered the finest operational ration in the world today. It has helped make the U. S. military the best-fed fighting force in the world.
The MRE, which replaced the canned Meal, Combat Individual (C Ration) in the early 1980s, is the current standard individual military operational ration.
The MRE is a totally self-contained, flexibly-packaged meal used by U. S. soldiers and Marines in the field. It is used by the services to sustain individuals during operations that prevent organized food service facilities but where resupply is established or planned.
Modern operational requirements demand ration systems that adequately provide for the needs of the individuals in extremely intense and highly mobile combat situations. The MRE answers that demand as no other ration in history.
Fighter fuel
The logistical task of providing subsistence for military personnel has been critical throughout history. Frederick the Great of Prussia is credited with having defined an army as a group of men who demand daily feeding.
Military rations are no less important today. In fact, the importance of sound nutrition to the performance of modern military personnel may be even more critical than in the past. Food fuels the fighter, and inadequate fuel for fighters will bring the military machine to a grinding halt.
The U. S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command's Soldier Systems Center (SSC) at Natick, Mass. is home to the Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Feeding Program, which is responsible for the design, development and testing of all military rations for the Armed Forces.
The Combat Feeding Program encompasses the design, development and evaluation of new and improved operational rations, packaging, food service equipment and feeding systems.
The Meal, Ready-to-Eat provides troops in the field with a complete, nutritious meal that can withstand extreme conditions.
Natick manages the research, development and engineering, which provides the science and technology base and the engineering support to satisfy the unique feeding requirements of each military service critical for operational success.
A joint technical staff, composed of representatives from each of the four services, functions as the primary interface between Natick and the services in preparation and execution of a prioritized and integrated research, development, and engineering program.
Product requirements
Numerous constraints and considerations must be addressed if an acceptable ration product is to be provided to American military personnel.
Ration development constraints include nutrition, personnel acceptance, wholesomeness, producibility, cost, shelf life, self-heating capability, modularity, weight, volume, ease of sanitation, menu fatigue and performance enhancement.
MREs include convenience items along with a variety of commercially-available drink mixes and snack foods.
In addition, MRE packaging must meet stringent durability requirements to include airdrop, rough handling and brutal temperature extremes.
Research and development breakthroughs have made it possible for MREs to be lightweight, compact, easily opened, withstand a parachute drop from 1,250 feet or from a helicopter at 100 feet with no parachute, endure inclement weather and survive temperature extremes from minus 60 degrees Fahrenheit to 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
They must have a minimum shelf life of three years at 80 F and last for six months at 100 F, be highly acceptable and meet the Office of the Surgeon General's nutritional requirements as identified in Army Regulation 4025, Nutritional Standards for Operational Rations.
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