My road staple "energy bar" has been dried apricots for nearly 50years. BITD bananas were the go to food, but I had bad luck carrying them for 5+ hours in the July heat, and switched to apricots which worked so well for so long that I never found a reason to look at alternatives.
BTW- Fig Newtons, sound like a reasonable energy food, offering both fast uptake sugars, and slower uptake starches. What counts is how you like them, whether they make you too thirsty, and if they work well for you. I say give them a go.
Either way, they're probably a less costly alternative to things like Goo.
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