{"id":2442210,"date":"2019-03-27T10:42:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T16:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=302601"},"modified":"2019-03-27T10:42:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T16:42:20","slug":"breckenridge-woman-creates-a-unique-post-workout-nutrition-bar-high-in-cbd-turmeric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/breckenridge-woman-creates-a-unique-post-workout-nutrition-bar-high-in-cbd-turmeric\/","title":{"rendered":"Breckenridge woman creates a unique post-workout nutrition bar high in CBD, turmeric"},"content":{"rendered":"
Carly Davis with the CARLbar products, a nutrious on-the-go bars for recovering athletes.<\/strong>
Hugh Carey\/Summit Daily<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A young woman from Breckenridge has channeled her recovery from a serious knee injury into a series of post-workout, anti-inflammatory nutrition bars called \u201cCARLbars.\u201d<\/p>\n

Created by Carly Davis, CARLbar is a nutrition bar without any added sugars or sweeteners. They\u2019re gluten free and contain no genetically modified organisms, soy, nuts or dairy. At 1.79 ounces, each bar is high in fiber and protein and comes with 15 milligrams of hemp-derived CBD, but there\u2019s no THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana that gives users the high.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re definitely unique,\u201d Davis said of CARLbar. \u201cIt\u2019s been interesting seeing the feedback. Some people absolutely hate them, but some people absolutely love them. Because there\u2019s no added sugar, it\u2019s a specific population that appreciates the nutrition bars for what they are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additionally, Davis\u2019 CARLbars contain turmeric, a flowering plant from the ginger family that\u2019s known for its alleged anti-inflammatory effects. Turmeric has been used in cooking and for medicinal properties for generations.<\/p>\n

Notably, turmeric contains compounds called \u201ccurcuminoids,\u201d and the most important of those is curcumin, the primary active ingredient in turmeric. Davis boasts that CARLbar uses \u201cwhole spectrum turmeric,\u201d which essentially means the bars contain the whole root.<\/p>\n

Many people who take turmeric will mix it with black pepper, for example, to aid absorption into the body, but Davis said that\u2019s unnecessary with CARLbars, as whole spectrum turmeric already contains substances that do this.<\/p>\n

Naturally, Davis is hoping to capitalize on \u201ca huge rave\u201d across the country, in which more and more people are being increasingly conscientious about the foods they eat. Davis herself is no nutritionist, nor does she claim to be, but the 27-year-old woman loves nutrition and believes that diet plays an important role in how the body performs.<\/p>\n

CARLbars might not have ever come into existence had Davis not seriously hurt her knee \u201cjumping off a cliff\u201d while skiing with friends at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area about four years ago, blowing out her ACL and tearing her meniscus.<\/p>\n

Hugh Carey\/Summit Daily | Carly Davis with the CARLbar products, a nutritious on-the-go bars for recovering athletes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI like literally tried everything \u2014 all kinds of different procedures \u2014 everything, and I was wondering if I could help (my knee heal) through my diet,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s ultimately what led Davis to start researching different types of diets, she said. She quickly gravitated toward foods with anti-inflammatory properties and, as a result, ended up making \u201ca ton of green smoothies.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Davis also soon realized there wasn\u2019t anything out there that made for a quick, on-the-go option and followed the diet she wanted for herself.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s where we get the CARLbar,\u201d Davis said. \u201cIt\u2019s been quite the journey through it all, but they\u2019re just like the coolest nutrition bar on the market. They\u2019re super good for you. There\u2019s spinach in them, and sweet potato, and the hemp-derived CBD aids in that anti-inflammatory purpose of the whole thing, but it can also help with anxiety, sleep and mood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis began making CARLbars by dehydrating fruit and vegetables, and mixing them with turmeric powder, before trying to press the ingredients into bars, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey tasted terrible,\u201d Davis admitted of her early attempts. \u201cSo I found these food scientists (at Small Batch Consulting<\/a>) in Denver, who helped me with the recipe, and they found the manufacturer.\u201d<\/p>\n

CARLbars are being made and packaged by a company in Georgia. Davis started selling them in October, both in bar form and in bags containing 14 bite-sized morsels with 70 milligrams of CBD per bag.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s recently got the website BodyAidBars.com<\/a> up and running, and her products are being carried at select locations in Summit and Eagle counties, including Cool River Coffee House, The Crown Coffee Bar and Lounge, Mom\u2019s Baking Co., Breckenridge Mountain Massage, Mountain River Naturopathic, Hovey and Harrison, and Village Bagel.<\/p>\n

The apothecary manager at Mountain River Naturopathic in Frisco, Della Elich, said that CARLbar is the only nutrition bar the store carries because so many other chocolate and energy bars are high in sugar, other additives and just weren\u2019t helping the store\u2019s customers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe tend to sell more internal, high potency CBD extracts, and it\u2019s been nice to have a quick, therapeutic snack option for people coming in,\u201d Elich said of CARLbar, adding that Summit County tourists looking for something high in CBDs have also been buying them up.<\/p>\n

Davis said sales have been \u201cpretty good\u201d since the launch, and she\u2019s now trying to get word out about CARLbar by targeting social media accounts on Facebook and Instagram with @eatcarlbars. Online, a three-bar variety pack costs $21 and a box of a dozen goes for $63.<\/p>\n

After the 2018 Farm Bill passed by Congress removed hemp from being a schedule I controlled substance, Davis said she can ship her bars out of state.<\/p>\n

Davis sees athletes as her biggest potential pool of customers because \u201cturmeric and CBD are awesome for post-exercise support and muscle recovery.\u201d However, she also thinks anyone looking to get some solid nutrients could benefit from her products because, as Davis put it, CARLbars are \u201cthe best nutrition bar on the market.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Carly Davis with the CARLbar products, a nutrious on-the-go bars for recovering athletes.Hugh Carey\/Summit Daily A young woman from Breckenridge has channeled her recovery from a serious knee injury into a series of post-workout, anti-inflammatory nutrition bars called \u201cCARLbars.\u201d Created by Carly Davis, CARLbar is a nutrition bar without any added sugars or sweeteners. They\u2019re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2442210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 20:40:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}