Performance nutrition – What snacks are good for ski touring?
I have a question relating to body fuel during a forthcoming ski touring holiday. This will involve prolonged period of aerobic activity, typically 5 hours a day, at altitude. The days will start with a good breakfast, but the only food available at lunchtime will be what I carry with me in my backpack. From your chart one of the ideal foods to carry would be bananas, but these may not be readily available (some days start from mountain huts), and they make a mess if you fall on them when skiing! I was planning on taking a supply of muesli bars for the week, and from the glycemic index web-site you mentioned www.glycemicindex.com some of these clearly have low GI values. Are there any other specific recommendations you can make? Nothing heavy, it will all have to be carried. Incidentally, I was surprised that Mars bars don’t fair too badly (index 64) – I would have expected these to give the immediate sugar rush and subsequent low that is to be avoided. BlueSkies Response For performan
