With kids home from school, parents need easy, satisfying, and healthy snacks. Parents may think snack bars sold for kids are more nutritious than cookies, but are they really? Consumer Reports chewed on those claims to reveal the truth about kids’ snack bars.

Kids' snack bars may seem like the perfect option for smaller appetites—they go anywhere and can live at the bottom of their backpacks for days. The average kids’ bar is about 1 ounce and 115 calories, compared with just over 2 ounces and 210 calories for the adult bars. But do they deliver the nutritional boost your kids need?

Consumer Reports nutrition experts examined 17 popular kids' snack bars to determine which are truly healthy snacks and which are just dressed up in healthy-looking packages. Some were “just” OK. Take Earth

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