jcmbb... lets talk about the products specifically. what percentage of your protein bars and other similar meal replacement type products for example contain high fructose corn syrup? its gotta be about half atleast.. i am assuming this because if i go to any drugstore or gas station and look at the protein bars 95% of them have HFCS. NTBM is 0%. NONE of nates products contain HFCS. this is important to me as I am a health nut. you are smart enough to know why HFCS is put into products, its cause its CHEAP and it makes the product sweet and taste better. nate uses real ingridents, not fillers. i would NOT buy from ntbm if nate took the cheap route and used HFCS or any other processed type of sugar. i work too hard to ruin my diet like that. and HFCS is the #1 reason IMO that america is obese, #2 being soybean oil which will NOT be found in any NTBM product as well.
also organic is important to me both because of the environment and again cause I am a health nut. what % of GNC products are organic? probably 0% or near 0% correct? many NTBM products contain organic ingredients. Nate knows that consumers like me are looking for organic and he is willing to spend a bit more to use those ingredients. most of GNC's customers just look at the price and will pick the cheapest product they can find, even if it has 20grams of sugar per serving.. NTBM protein has 1.7 grams of sugar per serving. thats a huge difference and can make or break someones diet. and since he has a background in food he still makes the products taste more delicious then GNC's products which goes back to what i said before about who is designing the products at NTBM vs. who designs them at GNC. the ceo of rite aid probably does not know anything about how bad HFCS is, all he knows it that is cheap and it tastes good and many of the shoppers there don't know the difference and are only concerned with saving an extra buck .. this is the bottom line reason I do not buy supps from GNC or any other large retailer. hope this explains where i am coming from, again I'm NOT attacking your job or your store, just trying to show you the difference between A and B
also organic is important to me both because of the environment and again cause I am a health nut. what % of GNC products are organic? probably 0% or near 0% correct? many NTBM products contain organic ingredients. Nate knows that consumers like me are looking for organic and he is willing to spend a bit more to use those ingredients. most of GNC's customers just look at the price and will pick the cheapest product they can find, even if it has 20grams of sugar per serving.. NTBM protein has 1.7 grams of sugar per serving. thats a huge difference and can make or break someones diet. and since he has a background in food he still makes the products taste more delicious then GNC's products which goes back to what i said before about who is designing the products at NTBM vs. who designs them at GNC. the ceo of rite aid probably does not know anything about how bad HFCS is, all he knows it that is cheap and it tastes good and many of the shoppers there don't know the difference and are only concerned with saving an extra buck .. this is the bottom line reason I do not buy supps from GNC or any other large retailer. hope this explains where i am coming from, again I'm NOT attacking your job or your store, just trying to show you the difference between A and B