About

The Dr. Will Bar is designed to be as versatile as it is delicious. Made from a mixture of nuts and fruit the Will Bar uses healthy fats and sugars to provide you with the short term energy you want and the sustained, crash free energy you need. Produced for athletes and outdoor enthusiasts as a supplement to their workouts or for everyday life the Will Bar quickly became used by many for a variety of activities. However you find a Will Bar fitting into your day we’d like to hear your story because our customers are what we are all about.

Ingredients

The essence of our bar is its ingredients. Every ingredient is carefully thought of and nothing is overlooked or ignored. We’ve even tested dozens of local Portland bakers to find the one that makes our bar the way we envisioned it, the way it tasted when it was still made in a kitchen by and for Will himself. Our bar is a melding of nuts and fruits in a small bar that is packed with lasting energy. The oils that are beneficial to your health also make the bar easy to eat. No longer will you have to drink water just to get an energy bar down.

Ingredients: Peanut Butter, Flax Seed, Oats, Corn Syrup, Pumpkin Seed, Brown Sugar, Cranberries, Cherries, Sunflower Seeds, Almonds, Puffed Rice, Whey Protein, Coconut.

Since our baker is not exclusive to our bar trace amounts of the following may be in the bar: Egg, Milk, Peanut, Soy, Tree Nuts, and Wheat.

Nutrition

History

Dr. Will Harden, athlete, nutritionist and creator of the Doctor Will Bar, was not satisfied with the standard, old fitness bars. Will, along with many other athletes have experienced the same energy bar boredom–”We wish they had more fiber…more protein or fatty acids…that they were good or nourishing enough to replace a meal.”  However the greatest amount of feedback he and others had was that “We definitely wish they tasted better!”  Will finally decided that it was time for the quest to create his own bar begin.  Dr. Harden created the sensational Doctor Will Bar in his own kitchen–not to sell or even to share, but for his own consumption.  He wanted to design the bar to be a perfect breakfast, to recharge before or after a bicycle ride or a workout, for a quick lunch during a crazy day,  as a tasty snack,  on a plane or in the car.  The idea was that there be no concerns about empty calories, spiking blood sugar or boring taste.  He envisioned real food he could feel good about eating all the time.

So began months of work in the kitchen, countless grocery trips and taste-testing, incessant ingredient changes and discarded batches.  Evenings and weekends were consumed with the quest to find the perfect combination for the dream bar.  Finally Will had a bar that met his high expectations and it made its way into the hands of friends and other athletes.  They loved it and began raving about it.  So was born the bar that friends and fans would call the Doctor Will Bar and now the remarkably delicious Doctor Will Bar is available for everyone.

Local Community

Dr Will is dedicated to our local community.  It doesn’t matter if it represents supporting our local athletes on the world stage or contracting a local printer and not outsourcing our jobs. We feel the need to make our home a more vibrant place for everyone to live. We work with Portland based companies for printing wrappers and boxes, as well as boxing and packaging the bars.  We work with local cycling teams and sponsor runners, skiers and everyday athletes.  Hiring local talent comes at a price but not without the benefit for you, our customer, of higher quality control and tighter oversight on ingredients and business practice.

For us it involves keeping and creating jobs in our community.  Also it means reducing our carbon footprint, we work hard to minimize the distance any hard goods or materials travel saving on transportation emissions.  With our shipping and manufacturing both in Portland we have no wasteful double shipping.  In today’s world of job shortages and over consumption combined with wastefulness we’re trying in our little corner of the market to responsibly care for our world, our community.