The Anti-Inflammatory Protein Bar.
25G PROTEIN. NO ADDED SUGAR. NO SHORTCUTS.
Now funding on Kickstarter.
NOW FUNDING ON KICKSTARTER - SHIPS JULY 2026
You got tired of being lied to... so did I.
You picked up a bar that promised clean protein and recovery. You flipped it over. And there it was — invert sugar syrup, sugar alcohols, "natural flavours" that could mean anything, curcumin listed as an ingredient at a dose so small it's decorative.
You put it back. You picked up another one. Same story, different label.
The protein bar industry has spent years perfecting the art of looking clean while being anything but. Impressive numbers on the front. Ingredients you'd need a chemistry degree to decode on the back. Cheap protein blends padded with fillers. Anti-inflammatory ingredients sprinkled in at doses that do absolutely nothing — just enough to print the word on the label.
You're not being paranoid. You're being lied to.
The bar that was actually high protein, genuinely anti-inflammatory, no added sugar, and built around ingredients at doses that do something — it didn't exist.
That's why Solás exists.
Built from scratch.
For people who pay attention.
Solás is not a performance bar. It's not a dessert replacement. It's not trying to taste like a candy bar so you forget what you're actually eating.
Every ingredient was chosen because it earns its place. Every dose was checked against the research — not against what looks good on a label.
One bar. One flavour. Done properly.
The ingredients that actually do something.
Most supplement brands choose ingredients based on what's trending, what's cheap, and what photographs well in a flat lay. Then they use the minimum viable dose — just enough to legally list it.
We did the opposite. Here's what's in Solás, why it's there, and why the dose matters.
CURCUMIN
25mg of a sprinkle. Or 125mg of the real thing.
Curcumin is the active compound in turmeric. It has one of the most substantial bodies of research of any natural anti-inflammatory compound — studies linking it to reduced inflammatory markers, joint comfort, and oxidative stress.
The problem is bioavailability. Standard turmeric powder is poorly absorbed. Your body sees almost none of it. Which is why most bars that include it might as well not bother.
Solás uses 125mg of 95% curcumin extract — the specific concentration used in clinical research. Not turmeric powder. Not a sprinkle. The form and dose that the research actually used.
Then we paired it with black pepper extract (piperine) — which enhances curcumin absorption by up to 2,000%.
That number isn't marketing. It's the mechanism. Without piperine, most of the curcumin passes straight through. With it, your body can actually use what you're eating.
This isn't decoration. It's functional.
TART CHERRY
Because "cherry flavour" and actual cherry are not the same thing.
Tart cherry is one of the most researched natural compounds for reducing exercise-induced inflammation and muscle soreness. Multiple studies have shown meaningful reductions in post-exercise muscle damage and recovery time.
The key word is freeze-dried. Not cherry flavour. Not cherry juice concentrate. Not dried sweetened cherries.
Freeze-drying preserves the active compounds — the anthocyanins responsible for tart cherry's anti-inflammatory properties — without the sugar load that comes with other processing methods.
Solás uses freeze-dried tart cherry. At a meaningful amount. Not a token dose added so it can be listed on the back.
GINGER
Not for taste. For what it does.
Ginger has a comparable body of research to tart cherry for inflammatory response. Gingerols and shogaols — the active compounds in ginger — have been studied for their effects on inflammatory markers, joint discomfort, and digestive health.
It also happens to work with dark cacao and tart cherry in a way that makes the bar taste like it was designed, not formulated.
That's not an accident. The flavour profile and the function were developed together.
RAW CACAO
Not cocoa. Cacao. There's a difference.
Most bars use dutched cocoa — heavily processed, alkalised, cheaper, and stripped of most of the compounds that made cacao worth using in the first place.
Dutching improves the colour and mellows the bitterness. It also destroys a significant portion of the flavonoids — the antioxidant compounds linked to cardiovascular health, reduced oxidative stress, and anti-inflammatory activity.
Solás uses raw cacao. It's darker. More complex. Slightly bitter in a way that tastes intentional rather than accidental. And it retains the flavonoid profile that processing removes.
The bitterness is real. The depth is real. And it's doing something while you eat it.
PREBIOTIC FIBRE
Gut health and inflammation are the same conversation.
A healthy gut microbiome is central to how your body manages its inflammatory response. The two systems are deeply connected — disrupted gut flora is consistently linked to elevated inflammatory markers.
Most protein bars ignore this entirely. Solás includes >8g of prebiotic fibre per bar — not as a marketing claim, but because inflammation doesn't start and end at the muscle. It's systemic. And the gut is part of that system.
PROTEIN BLEND
25g. From three sources. For a reason.
Whey isolate. Egg white. Brown rice protein.
Not one source padded to hit a number. Three sources chosen because each brings something different.
Whey isolate — fast absorption, complete amino acid profile, high leucine content for muscle protein synthesis.
Egg white — complete protein, highly bioavailable, slower digesting than whey, easy on the gut.
Brown rice protein — digestibility, hypoallergenic, rounds out the amino acid profile of the blend.
Together they cover what a single source can't. No cheap fillers. No soy padding. No padding of any kind.
25g of protein that earns its number.
NO ADDED SUGAR
Sweetened with fruit. Not chemistry.
Date paste. A touch of real maple syrup. Allulose — a rare natural sugar found in figs and raisins that doesn't spike blood glucose.
Nothing artificial. Nothing that crashes you an hour later. No sugar alcohols that cause gut discomfort. No invert syrup dressed up with a clean-sounding name.
Sweetness that tastes like it came from food — because it did.
NOW FUNDING ON KICKSTARTER - SHIPS JULY 2026
Dark Chocolate Cherry
One flavour. One done right.
Deep cacao balanced with tart cherry and a warmth of ginger. Finished with ground almond and puffed quinoa for texture. The sweetness is restrained — enough to feel genuinely satisfying, not so much that you feel you've cheated on something.
It doesn't taste like a protein bar. It tastes like something you'd actually choose to eat — that also happens to be doing real work in your body.
Rich enough for after training. Clean enough for every day.
25g Protein · ≤8g Sugar (fruit only) · >8g Fibre · ~215–230 Calories
(per ~65g bar — values lab-verified prior to fulfilment)
Gluten-free · No sugar alcohols · No artificial sweeteners · No cane sugar
Solás is currently funding on Kickstarter. The first production run is live now — if you want to be among the first to get it, the campaign is here.