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Energy bars
Energy bars for your jersey pocket, your trail running belt or your padel bag. Discover our own-brand carbohydrate bars: date and coconut, almond and banana, peanut, with probiotics, coated oat, and a berry gummy with caffeine for chewing on the move.
In cycling, running, trail or hiking, eat them before you set off or, if the outing runs past an hour, keep eating: add up the grams of carbs in each bar to reach 30-60g per hour, and alternate with something liquid.
If chewing on the move is hard work, try energy gels; if what you're after is extra protein afterwards, protein bars. Everything is own brand, with full composition on every product page.
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Carbs on the move
Eat on the move, keep the pace
Energy bars for long outings
Energy bars are carbohydrates in solid form, made to be eaten without stopping the effort. There are four families here, and what decides which you take isn't the flavor: it's the grams of carbs each unit declares and how easy it is to chew.
Shop energy barsFour families
Fruit and nuts, oat, probiotics and gummy
Carbs per unit
Divide 30-60g per hour by the grams in each bar
Fruit, nuts and oats
The base of the solid bars; full list on every product page
Own brand
Full composition on every product page
Which bar for your outing
Duration decides, not flavor: under an hour at a moderate pace, you don't need to eat anything.
Cycling and long distance
It's the main use for this category. Past the first hour you need to start eating, and on a bike it's easy: you're seated and your hands are free for a moment. The fruit-and-nut solid is the reference format.
Running and trail
Chewing is harder while running. The gummy texture breaks down without cutting your breathing, but the one in this category contains caffeine: count it alongside your coffee and gel, and cover the rest of your carbs with energy gels.
Hiking, skiing and padel
Long efforts with breaks. The fruit-and-nut bar works as a refuel between stretches or between games: you eat during the break and carry on, without timing every bite.
The four families you'll find here
Four families that concentrate carbs; what changes is how and when you eat them.
Fruit and nuts
Bars with date, banana, almond, peanut and coconut. Dried fruit concentrates the sugars and the nut brings the fat. It's the format for long routes.
Coated oat
Oat bars coated in chocolate or yogurt: a solid serving to eat one or two hours before you set off. Their protein version is in oat bars.
With probiotics
Some of the fruit-and-nut bars add live cultures. Spain's food safety agency, AESAN, accepts the term 'probiotic' on a food label, pending a common EU criterion, as long as no effect is attributed to it; and the EU has not authorized any claim for probiotics: you won't read any benefit attributed here. The full family is in probiotic bars.
Gummy texture
A chewable texture for when solid food won't go down at high paces. The berry one carries around 80mg of caffeine per piece: count it alongside your coffee and gels, and don't use it as a fixed dose every 20 minutes. More flavors in energy gummies.
Before, during or after
The moment decides the format, and whether what you want is here or in the next category.
Hours before
Before
Before a long session the reference is 1-4 grams of carbs per kilo of body weight, according to the International Society of Sports Nutrition. The oat bars fit here: more of a meal, to eat with time to spare before you set off.
On the move
During
This is energy bar territory: on outings over an hour, 30-60 grams of carbs per hour, spread from the start. Past 2.5 hours, the guidance rises to around 90 grams combining glucose and fructose.
Once you've stopped
After
Once you've stopped, the energy bar isn't the answer anymore: what you need is the carbs in your meal and protein. For the protein, protein bars.
What to check before buying
Three label facts, in order of importance.
Grams of carbs per bar
It's the figure that turns the label into a plan: how many units you need to cover 30-60 grams per hour. Check it per unit, not per 100 grams: two bars of the same weight can carry different amounts.
The sugar blend
Above roughly 60 grams per hour, a single sugar source doesn't absorb well: you need glucose and fructose together. It only matters if you go past that figure, and then the bar pairs with gels and isotonic drinks.
The ingredient list
Short and recognizable — date, oat, almond, peanut — is what anyone asking about natural or healthy bars is looking for. It also shows whether there's gluten or lactose: EU labeling rules require allergens to stand out.
Tip: on outings over an hour, start eating early and spread it out: a piece every 20-30 minutes sits better than two bars in a row at the end, always with water. The liquid base is isotonic drinks.
Frequently asked questions
What are energy bars and what are they for?
An energy bar is a solid food concentrated in carbohydrates, for eating before or during exercise; they're also called carbohydrate bars. They cover the carbs of a long session without stopping to eat or carrying real food: they fit in a pocket and you chew them on the move.
Which energy bars are good?
The ones that bring the carbs you need in a format you can eat at your own pace. That's two conditions, not one: a very complete bar you can't chew on the move is a bar you end up bringing back home. Check the grams of carbs per unit first, then the texture.
How many energy bars should I eat per hour of exercise?
It depends on the carbs each one declares. The reference for exercise over an hour is 30-60 grams per hour: divide that figure by the grams in your bar and spread them out from the start. Past 2.5 hours, the guidance rises to around 90, combining glucose and fructose.
How long does an energy bar take to kick in?
Longer than a gel. A bar has to be chewed and carries fiber, fat or protein, which slow digestion and, if you eat it late and in a hurry, cause more discomfort. That's why you eat it before setting off or early and spread out during the outing, and save the gel for stretches where you can't chew.
What's the difference between an energy bar and a protein bar?
The macronutrient and the moment. The energy bar concentrates carbohydrates and is taken before or during exercise; the protein bar concentrates protein and covers your daily intake. Decide by the moment: effort under way, energy; once you're done, protein. We explain it in the differences between energy and protein bars.
Which energy bars should I take for cycling or running?
On a bike, the fruit-and-nut ones: you eat them with one hand without letting go of the handlebar. Running makes chewing harder and the gummy goes down more easily, but the one in this category contains caffeine: one or two per outing at most, and gels for the rest. On trail, the solid on the climbs and the gummy, counted, on the fast stretches.
Are there sugar-free energy bars?
There are some on the market, but read the label carefully. 'Sugar-free' requires no more than 0.5 grams per 100, and 'no added sugar' only guarantees nothing was added: what's in the date or banana is still there, and during exercise that's exactly what you're after.
Are there gluten-free energy bars?
Only if the label says so: 'gluten-free' requires a maximum of 20mg per kilo (Regulation 828/2014). Oats count as a gluten-containing cereal for labeling purposes: an oat bar isn't suitable for people with celiac disease unless its label says 'gluten-free'. Fruit-and-nut bars may contain no cereal; check the ingredients and traces on each product page.
What's in a natural energy bar?
A short, recognizable list: dried fruit like date or banana, which concentrates the sugars, plus oats and nuts. Careful: 'natural' has no legal definition of its own for a bar, although it can't be used to mislead; 'organic' does require certification.
Is it good to eat energy bars?
Yes, when you're doing long exercise: they're convenient carbs to carry, and during the effort they get burned as fuel. As an everyday snack without exercise they count as just another sweet, and there fruit or a protein bar fits better. They don't make you gain weight on their own: weight responds to the balance of the whole day.
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