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Best Energy bars by Carbs
Energy bars ranked by carbs per bar, from lean high-carb race bars to the big all-day doses.
Bars span a wider dose than any other solid format, from around 11 g of carbohydrate in a snack bar to more than 60 g in a long-course race bar, with the high-carb race bars clustering in the mid-40s. Because a bar is bulky, that dose sets how much fuel you carry per pocket and how much chewing a given hourly target costs you.
Carbohydrate is only half the story. The fat, fibre and protein a bar also carries slow gastric emptying, so two bars with identical carbs can behave completely differently: a lean bar empties fast and fuels, a dense one sits. And the carb-type rule is unchanged - single-source glucose saturates around 60 g/h, and only a stated glucose-fructose blend pushes the ceiling toward 90 g/h.
The full argument, with references: Carbs per hour, by duration and intensity
The top 10
Read carbs per bar against your hourly target, then sanity-check the intensity: at threshold a bar is very hard to eat well.
62 gCarbs
0 mgCaffeine
39.3 mgSodium
€2.70Price
60 gCarbs
0 mgCaffeine
0 mgSodium
€1.30Price
50 gCarbs
-Caffeine
236 mgSodium
€2.75Price
50 gCarbs
-Caffeine
248 mgSodium
€2.75Price
50 gCarbs
-Caffeine
55.02 mgSodium
€2.75Price
50 gCarbs
-Caffeine
236 mgSodium
€2.75Price
50 gCarbs
0 mgCaffeine
165 mgSodium
€1.82Price
46 gCarbs
0 mgCaffeine
43.2 mgSodium
€3.50Price
46 gCarbs
-Caffeine
43.2 mgSodium
€3.50Price
46 gCarbs
-Caffeine
43.2 mgSodium
€3.50Price
The full ranking
All 143 energy bars we track, ranked on the same number. Positions 11 onward are listed below, 25 at a time.
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