Healthier lunch and break food can boost employee productivity and brain power by 20 percent or more, per the World Health Organization. Higher-quality snacks could help your firm unlock cultural benefits like productivity, energy, engagement and morale.
Leading Organizations Are Snacking Healthier
The rise in break room culture and competition for talent has led some brands to elevate their snacks. Among these is iRobot, whose staff love spicy hummus. CEO Colin Angle says it’s a decent stand-in for buffalo wings.
Wayfair’s talent noshes on a laundry list of healthy snacks for the office, including popcorn, granola and pita chips. Other companies who’ve made the commitment to healthier food include Google, Alexza Pharmaceuticals and Trading Technologies.
50 Healthy Snacks for the Office in 2018
1. Awake Energy Granola Bar
50 mg of caffeine and energizing B vitamins for fuel and focus.
2. GoGo Squeeze Fruit Pouches
100 percent real fruit and antioxidants.
3. Chef’s Cut BBQ Chicken Sticks
Protein-rich without unhealthy preservatives or excess sodium.
4. Nature Valley Almond Butter Granola Cups
A double-whammy of heart-healthy fats and whole grains.
5. Reduced Fat Wheat Thins
No corn syrup and 1.5 less grams of fat per serving than the Original Wheat Thins.
6. Santa Cruz Organic Applesauce
Free of common allergens, vegan-friendly and tasty.
7. Unsalted Aloha Mix
Team members on a low-sodium diet can enjoy this tropical trail mix.
8. Awake Dark Chocolate Bites
Single-serve bars of caffeine-boosted dark chocolate!
9. Buddha Bowl Classic Cheddar
A satisfying blend of whole grain popcorn, Himalayan salt and coconut oil.
10. Fiber One Chewy Bars Oats & Chocolate
Contains 35 percent of the recommended daily intake of dietary fiber.
11. Cheetos Oven Baked
Cheesy chips made healthy with 50 percent less fat.
12. Go Raw Spirulina Energy Bar
Made from superfoods spirulina and bananas, this bar is loaded with protein, fiber, vitamins and minerals.
13. Purely Elizabeth Ancient Grain Granola
Vegan, gluten-free granola is surprisingly delicious enjoyed plain or with milk.
14. Mary’s Organic Gone Crackers
Contain heart-healthy ingredients like organic brown rice and quinoa.
15. Field Trip Crack Pepper Turkey Jerky
Marinated in a delicious blend of black pepper, brown sugar and apple.
16. Organic Beef Mighty Bar
A paleo-friendly blend of grass-fed meat and organic fruit.
17. AG Smoked Almond
Packed with health, including vitamin E, B vitamins, magnesium, calcium and protein.
18. Annie’s Organic Snack Mix
Crunch on a variety of fun shapes with this all-natural snack mix.
19. Think Thin Brownie Crunch Protein Bars
With 20 grams of protein and zero grams of sugar.
20. Umpqua Oats Kick Start
These instant oatmeal mixes are filled with real fruit and nut add-ins.
21. TERRA Blues Chips
Made with real blue potatoes, these healthier chips are perfect with salsa or solo.
22. Wonderful Pistachios
Not only are pistachios divine, but they’re the lowest-fat nut!
23. Tate’s Double Chocolate Chip
Tate’s cookies are flavor-rich and all-natural.
24. Apple + Strawberries Fruit Bars
Each bar is made from just one apple and 12 strawberries.
25. SuperSeedz Maple Sugar & Sea Salt
This sweet-and-salty snack is indulgent alone or over oatmeal.
26. Stacy’s Cinnamon Sugar Pita Chips
These baked sweet chips are the next best thing to churros.
27. Annie Chun’s Seaweed Snacks
This superfood is loaded with antioxidants, calcium and vitamins.
28. Snyder’s Thin Pretzel
Fat-free, crunchy and offered in single-serve bags.
29. RX Bar Mixed Berry
With a company tagline of “no b.s.,” these healthy bars are all-natural.
30. Sahale Snacks
With flavor combinations like pomegranate vanilla, Sahale’s trail mixes are addicting.
31. Raw Bite Protein Bars
Free of any added sugar, these fruit and nut bars are gluten-free!
32. Quest Bars
These high-protein, low-carb bars boast the “perfect nutritional profile.”
33. Ranch Dip Cups
Single-serve, 1.5-ounce cups of ranch dressing make veggies fun.
34. Pretzel Crisps
Baked pretzel chips crunch well alone or with dip.
35. Popcorners Chips Caramel
A cross between a chip and almost guilt-free caramel corn.
36. PopChips Crazy Hot
Even the spice-lovers on your team will be sweating.
37. Mango Peeled Snacks
Peeled Snacks are high-quality, all-natural dried fruit.
38. Nourish Chocolate Banana Chewy Granola Bites
Nourish snacks blend whole grains, chia seeds and fruit.
39. Oatmega White Chocolate Raspberry
Divine flavor, crunchy oats and organic almonds meet in “protein bar heaven.”
40. Oreo Crisps
All the fun of Oreos, with 100 calories and no trans fat.
41. Organic Salsa
This condiment is vegan, gluten-free and veggie-rich.
42. Nature’s Path Oatmeal Variety
Single-serve instant oatmeal in flavors like apple cinnamon and maple nut.
43. The New Primal Jerky Stick Spicy Beef
Better beef jerky from just grass-fed meat and organic seasonings.
44. Nibmor Dark Chocolate
Cravings are no match for Nibmor’s organic dark chocolate treats.
45. Nothin But Ginger Lemon Cashew
“Premium snack bars”: the perfect blend of sweetness, spice and crunch.
46. Nakd Peanut Delight Bars
“Smooshing” together chunky peanuts and dates makes a brilliant bar.
47. Nature’s Bakery Raspberry Fig Bar
Fig cookies just got healthier.
48. Maya Kaimal Naan Chips
Salty, crunchy and dangerously good with hummus.
49. Mozaics Organic Popped Veggie & Potato Chips
Blended veggies and potatoes will sing in your mouth.
50. Organic Hummus
Everything tastes better dipped in savory, blended organic garbanzos.
Everyone Wins With Healthy Snacks for the Office
Options for healthy snacks for the office aren’t limited to lettuce or fresh fruit. With today’s talent committed to a healthier lifestyle, the latest innovations in the health food are more varied and way tastier.
Corporate Essentials offers hundreds of choices for healthy office snacks, from fruit bars to protein cereal and well beyond, as well as healthy drinks like on-tap Kombucha. With a taste for the finer, healthier things in life, our culture experts can help you stock your break room with all the right stuff for 2018.
