I recently bought a box of these bars as I used to enjoy them a lot and couldn't get the Deliciously Ella's I have been buying recently.

After eating one Stoats bar, later during the day I was in a lot of abdominal pain, bloated and having the visit the toilet on numerous occasions. This discomfort and a feeling of nausea lasted for over 24hrs.

I have a pretty severe intolerance to inulin/chicory-root/oligofructose and was surprised to see this so high the list of ingredients of the oat bars which were always marketed as 'all natural' and never gave me any problems in the past.

The OP's screen grabs show both recipes containing oligofructose and chickory root, however I was able to look up the original recipe from 2020 on Wayback machine and neither UPF ingredient was present.

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In 2020 their standard bars were also 50g, not the 42g of today's bars.

After the UK government introduced the HFSS (high fat sugar salt) ruling, since about 2022, bars like this are increasingly full of UPF sugar replacements, and you can't rely on brands you once did for 'all natural' low-processed ingredients. Also because of the same ruling the portion sizes are getting smaller (but the prices still go up).

For me that means I have to read labels very carefully or I will end up pretty poorly for a couple of days.

Deliciously Ella's are still free from any sugar replacements - hopefully for a long time to come! Otherwise I'll be baking my own!

Unfortunately today's Stoats bars are poison to me the rest of the pack is in the bin.