Promoter from the kitchen: affordable Alternatives to energy Gels

Synthetic, sticky, disgusting: Many runners engage only reluctantly to the endurance sports cropped Gels in packages therefore.

In addition, the energy donor is still a further disadvantage is that The manufacturer to ask for the pick-me-up a lot of cash. Time, in the domestic kitchen after Alternatives to look around.

Mashed potatoes makes legs

At the top of the healthy Alternatives is an unexpected candidate is: mashed potatoes should be a new study found that just as effective as the gel from the laboratory.

The mashed Potatoes are easily digestible and keep the Glucose level in the body at the same Level as commercial fitness products for athletes is essential.

The only downside with the study: it was commissioned by the Alliance for potato research and education, in order, to the extent that a bit of skepticism at the very least.

A further disadvantage of this Superfoods for endurance athletes: There is hardly anyone with a cling can run full of mashed potato to a Marathon.

Although there will be runners who are preparing accordingly. However, somewhat impractical mashed potatoes is.

This is not to say, however, that there is no handy Alternatives that are natural and easy on the wallet.

Honey

And grape sugar, the ingredients that make the gel to such effective sources of energy are fruit. Exactly so that is also honey in Abundance.

The ancient Greeks used in their Olympic Games on the sweet bread spread, if you needed a extra boost of energy.

Now also in handy sachets, honey is available. Who doesn’t love a Sweet, but probably also with the bees, the product of his problems.

Fruit purees for Kids

Ultra Runners swear by the vitamin-rich blend, the parents as a handy Snack for small children to carry around. In addition, many athletes find they simply more delicious than gel, because, in the end it is pure fruit.

The only drawback – since the children cut fruit servings contain no sugar sets and more, feeling some of the extreme athlete the Energy boost as too weak.

Raisins & Co.

The dried grapes are real carbohydrate bombs. Also dried dates can make a tired runner or cyclist perk up again, as well as other dry fruit with a high natural sugar content.

The qualities of these bundles of energy were demonstrated in a study by the University of California official. A further advantage: they are well portioned, tasty, and dirt cheap.

Bocadillo Guava Jelly

The Exotic among the athletes, food from the local cuisine. Admittedly, the probability that the average German kitchen has guava jelly in stock, is rather low. But that could change.

Colombian professional cyclists swear by for years on a “bocadillo de guayaba”, which solidified jam from the fruit of the guava, which is also in this country in small blocks. The solid red jelly tastes like jelly babies like a rubber and is full of energy. Traditionally the candy is wrapped in banana leaves.

Sources

• Schience Daily: Potato as effective as carbohydrate gels for boosting athletic performance, study finds, retrieved last on 01.11.2019 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191018125512.htm

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