Savory Snack Bars Hit the Sweet Spot

Tekla Back was struggling to find a snack bar made of whole, plant-based food that satisfied her yen for savory taste. Although many bars on the market touted healthy ingredients, the majority catered to snackers with a sweet tooth, using carb-heavy ingredients, such as honey, to hold the bars together. That’s when Back, a former executive at PepsiCo with a doctorate in physics from Oxford, decided to take matters into her own hands.

Three years of testing and tasting later, Back’s co…