IQBAR Blogs
Brain Food
10 Keto Breakfast Recipes to Start Your Day Right
Breakfast can be hard. Breakfast on the go is even harder! Still, we all know how important breakfast is. After waking up from a too-short night of sleep, it’s easy to neglect to nourish your body ...
Brain Health
Lion's Mane: How this brain food improves cognitive function
Lion’s Mane is a mushroom that has been used by humans for thousands of years as a food source and for traditional medicine. Its mild flavor and surprising cognitive effects have drawn more health-...
Company News
IQ BAR “Brain + Body” Nutrition Bars Expand to 1,000 Kroger Locations
IQ BAR “Brain + Body” Nutrition Bars Expand to 1,000 Kroger Locations
Just 15 months after entering the market, IQ BARs are now available in 6,000 stores nation-wide
Boston, MA — October 28, 2...
IQ BAR Closes $1 Million Seed Round Funding and Introduces New-and-Improved Recipes
IQ BAR Closes $1 Million Seed Round Funding and Introduces New-and-Improved Recipes
New bars include more plant protein, less sugar, no sugar alcohols, and two new flavors.
Boston, MA — August ...
Keto Guide to Autumn Produce
Fall is around the corner, which means color-changing leaves, cool weather, and new seasonal foods popping up in the grocery store.
In particular, early-autumn brings us flavorful produce like root...
Brain Food
5 Best Foods to Eat Before Bed
Getting a good night's sleep is very important to your health. 7-8 hours of sleep every night can help reduce your risk of chronic illnesses, keep your brain healthy and alert, and boost your immun...
Brain Food
10 Keto Office Snacks to Beat the "2:30 Feeling"
Let’s face it: the typical office “snack rack” sucks. It's riddled with cheap carbs (e.g., corn, oats, rice), packed with sugar or sugar equivalents (e.g., dextrose), and offers little-to-no nutrit...
8 Worst Foods to Eat Before Bed
We all know that eating right before bedtime isn’t good for us. In fact, it could keep us tossing and turning into the night while our body digests. However, going to bed hungry has its own drawbac...
6 Best Sources of Plant-Based Protein
There’s a common misconception that eating a plant-based diet is difficult and requires health compromises. In particular, many believe that plant-based diets require giving up essential nutrients,...
Brain Food
Spirulina: What to Know About The Superfood
Have blue-green drinks and “mermaid” smoothies been filling your social media feeds lately?
Believe it or not, you have an edible algae to thank for that! Spirulina has become a wildly popular addi...
Brain Food
5 Simple Tricks to Stay Healthy This Summer
Barbecues, cold fruity drinks, beach vacations - all three are components of a fantastic summer ahead. But remember: it's important not to scrap your clean-eating and exercise habits amidst the sea...
Brain Food
4 Foods for Better Moods
The link between food and mood in popular culture centers largely on blunt, high-level concepts. Take Snickers commercials for example - they effectively villainize hunger's temperamental effects w...
Brain Health
3 Surprising Factors Affecting Your Brain
Most of our posts center on nutrition and other commonly referenced mediators of brain function like sleep and exercise. However, today we will cover three under-appreciated variables that also hav...
What the Heck Are Adaptogens?!
Have exotic powders like “Ashwagandha” and “Rhodiola” populated your favorite blogs and social media feeds lately? Same here! This phenomenon is largely due to the rise in popularity of substances ...
Brain Food
6 Snacks That Cause You To Crash
In a given week, do you often feel tired during the day? If you answered yes you’re not alone - in fact, you’re in the majority. A recent study assessed 1,139 American workers and found that 76% re...
The Quick Skinny on MCT Fats
Over the past several decades, many in the medical and nutritional communities have broadly categorized fats as “healthy" or "unhealthy”. Pretty much everyone agrees that trans fats (e.g., what fri...
Brain Health
3 Simple Ways to Boost Your Brain in 2018
Ok, so we know it's a bit late to be making New Year's resolutions. Buuuttt, it is still January, so we decided to put together a small list of basic, but hugely impactful, lifestyle changes you ca...
The Brain Berry
Incorporating fruit into a nutrition bar while also maintaining a low net carb count (total carbs – fiber) is not easy. However, given how uniquely brain-healthy blueberries are, we spent quite som...
Brain Food
Matcha Madness
“What’s Maaatch-Ah?”
We’ve heard that question at least 100 times over the past month, despite Matcha emerging as one of the hottest ingredient trends of the past year. So, we figured we’d write a ...
Brain Food
Cacao vs. Cocoa vs. Chocolate
As we’ve sampled out IQ Bars from our very first production run in Boston, we’ve fielded hundreds of questions about the ingredients we use in our products. One of the most common inquiries we get ...
Keto
10 Low-Carb, On-the-Go Snacks
Snacking is no longer a leisure activity – it's become a full-fledged necessity for many of us. The two driving forces behind this dynamic are a significant uptick in weekly hours worked in America...
Brain Health
A Brain-Healthy Holidays!
Don’t Overdo It on Travel
For many of us, the holidays necessarily include travel. And, while travel can have many positive impacts on the brain (e.g., it can give you new perspective and bolster ...
Company News
“Brain Food” Startup IQ Bar Triples Its Kickstarter Goal in Two Weeks
“Brain Food” Startup IQ Bar Triples Its Kickstarter Goal in Two Weeks
Over 500 consumers have purchased the company’s nutrition bars optimized for brain function
Boston, MA – November 2017 – Wit...
What I'm Most Thankful For
Despite the endless list of to-do’s accompanying our recently launched Kickstarter campaign, Thanksgiving has inspired me to stop and reflect on what I’m truly thankful for. I’ll focus on one dynam...
Why I Started IQ Bar
I Had a Passion
When I started at college, like most 18-year-olds, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. Then, in the first semester of my junior year, I enrolled in a psychology and neur...