After months of careful testing, well eating bars when training or racing, the results of the energy bar study are finally ready.
As I have stated many times there is no science to this testing, and so it is purely subjective based on how much I liked the taste and whether I thought it worked or not.
The overall results are as follows,
- Power Bar Ride Energy Bar – Peanut Caramel Flavour
- High 5 Energy Bar – Berry Flavour
- Power Bar Ride Energy Bar – Chocolate Caramel Flavour
- Power Bar Energize – Mango & Passionfruit Flavour
- PowerBar Energize Bar – Chocolate Flavour
- High 5 Energy Bar – Banana Flavour
If I am honest there really isn’t too much between the top 4 bars and I would happily chomp my way through any of them in the course of a race or training. They all have decent flavours, textures I liked and wrappers that I could open easily, perhaps a point often forgotten but it’s no good having a bar you can’t get into easily.
For the bottom two I simply didn’t like the flavours and so wouldn’t buy them again, that is not to say they are bad bars or didn’t work, but for me I didn’t really like them.
It would perhaps have been a better test had I worked out some quantifiable tests to see if the bars really do work, but in the absence of them this subjective test will have to do!
It was good to try some different bars, and I think I will probably mix up my bar buying more than I have done previously,
For the next test I am wondering about testing cake to see if it has any benefit to athletic performance, the results of this I don’t care about but it would be a great excuse to eat a lot of cake!