Patter Matters — pea protein

Protein has become the organizing principle of the American snack food aisle. Walk through any grocery store and you will find bars, shakes, pouches, and bites marketed around a single number: grams of protein per serving. The higher the number, the better the product, or so the logic goes. Twenty grams. Thirty grams. Some brands push forty. The number is real. What produced it often isn't. How Protein Bars Get Their Protein Numbers There are two ways to put protein into a bar. The first is whole food. Almonds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, walnuts — these contain protein as part...