The PowerBar Ride bar gets a chocolate flavoured, whey protein-enriched coating over a mixed fructose and glucose caramel paste with soya crisps, peanut butter and oat fibres.
It’s vitamin bolstered, but vegetable oil and simple sugar syrups are well up in the mix. That means a lot of fat in the stats, including over 8 percent saturated fats, which is almost double that of many other bars we’ve tried.
The comparatively low carb proportion means a slow release that only really works at low intensities but there’s a lot of protein for recovery purposes. Both flavours taste synthetic and the chocolatesque coating does them no favours in hot pockets either.
This article was originally published in Triathlon Plus magazine, available on Zinio.