Best Highest Sugar Protein Bars

MET-Rx Big 100 Crispy Apple Pie leans into the bakery promise: real apple pieces, fruit concentrates, and cinnamon deliver the flavor, while syrups help lock in that crispy-chewy bite. Underneath, the brand's METAMYOSYN blend supplies 30 grams of protein from soy crisps plus whey, milk protein isolate, and egg white - more meal than snack.

It is also energy-dense: most calories come from quick-burning carbohydrates, with 29 grams of sugar in a 390-calorie bar. A vitamin-and-mineral premix adds fortification, and you will see roughly nine functional additives that keep it soft, stable, and shelf ready.

Think dessert-meets-protein bar, built to fill you up fast.

Peanut Power reads like a fruit-and-nut bar that drafted soy for backup. Dates and raisins supply the base, peanut butter and roasted peanuts steer the flavor, and gluten-free oats add a bit of chew.

The protein comes from soy protein crunchies—puffed soy bound with a little tapioca starch—plus a touch of soy flour, which keeps the texture snappy rather than pasty. Grape and apple juice concentrates act as the glue, with simple rice and tapioca starch helping it hold together.

The net effect is fast, fruit-leaning carbs, moderate soy protein, mostly peanut-derived fats, and a vegan, gluten-free label.

Perfect Snacks’ Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough leans into a doughy peanut-and-cashew base, lifted with vanilla and studded with dark chocolate for a true cookie-dough bite. The protein doesn’t come from a single source: nuts, nonfat dry milk, dried whole egg, and a little rice protein all pitch in.

It’s a richer, fat-forward bar sweetened with maple syrup and honey, and at 310 calories it eats more like a small meal than a light snack. The ingredient list is pantry-style and short, with zero additives and no sugar alcohols or artificial sweeteners.

Exo’s PB & J (Classic) tastes like a lunchbox staple because it’s built like one: roasted peanuts, a jammy mix of strawberries and apricots, honey, and a touch of vanilla. The twist is the protein—cricket powder—an animal-derived, complete protein that also brings vitamin B12 you rarely see in fruit-and-nut bars.

The ingredient list is short and leans real‑food, with no sugar alcohols or artificial sweeteners; the strawberry component uses apple juice concentrate to boost sweetness and a little citric acid for tartness, much like adding lemon to jam.

Macros skew richer—higher carbs, sugar, fat, and calories—so think trail fuel or a hold‑you‑over snack rather than a feather‑light bite.

Equip’s Chocolate Prime Bar reads like a chocolate treat that happened to study macros. The protein comes from a grass‑fed bovine blend—beef protein isolate plus collagen peptides, with a small amount of bovine colostrum (a milk ingredient).

It tastes like real chocolate because it’s built like real chocolate: cocoa butter, unsweetened chocolate, cocoa powder, cocoa nibs, and cocoa extract. Dates and honey bring the chew and sweetness, keeping the label familiar but sending sugars higher than many protein bars.

Fat leans on cocoa butter with a touch of grass‑fed tallow (beef fat), so you get stable, saturated‑leaning fats and no seed oils.

This bar doesn’t make you choose between flavor and function: it packs 20g of soy‑based protein beneath a real chocolate profile built from unsweetened chocolate and cocoa. The sweet side is not shy—31g of carbs with 17g of sugar—driven by cane syrup and cane sugar (concentrated sugarcane) plus brown rice syrup, which your body absorbs quickly.

Nine grams of fat from palm kernel oil, seed oils, and cocoa butter give a smooth, creamy bite. It’s plant‑based and gluten‑free, and it’s built more like performance fuel than a minimalist whole‑foods bar.

ZonePerfect Fudge Graham leans into the campfire theme—chocolatey coating, milk chocolate drops, and marshmallow bits—then fortifies the whole thing with a multivitamin blend that puts B-vitamin numbers front and center. The protein comes from a soy-whey duo and lands at 14 grams, squarely mid-pack for bars.

Macros tilt sweet: carbs and sugars do most of the work while fat stays modest, so it eats more like a treat with benefits than a protein-first bar. It’s also a longer, engineered label (about 48 ingredients) with roughly five functional additives to keep the chocolate glossy, the texture soft, and the bar stable on the shelf.

Rise Bar Chocolatey Almond keeps it startlingly simple: almonds, honey, whey protein isolate, and carob powder. Carob brings chocolate‑like depth minus the caffeine, almonds add crunch and steadying fats, and whey isolate anchors the protein.

The flip side of that pantry simplicity is higher carbs and sugars because honey does the sweetening and binding. There are no sugar alcohols, gums, or preservatives—just a short label that reads like actual food.

Skout Organic’s Peanut Butter & Jelly Protein Bar sticks to the classics: organic dates bind the bar, peanut flour and peanut butter supply the plant protein, and real strawberries bring the jammy nostalgia, lifted by a hint of strawberry essence.

This is more fruit-and-nut energy than protein juggernaut, with 10g of peanut-based protein. Carbs and sweetness come from whole fruit rather than syrups or sugar alcohols, and fat stays modest and mostly unsaturated thanks to peanuts.

At 200 calories, it reads like a lunchbox throwback—just with better ingredients.