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Fresh Nutrition from PowerBar, Cyto, Honey Stinger, H2Overdrive, Skratch & More!

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Pocket Fuel nut-based paste energy food single serves and refills

Around Interbike, there’s always plenty of snacks, drinks, gels, chews and “other” to help us get through the show. The big brands usually have a new flavor or something, and this year was no different, but my favorite find was a new brand called Pocket Fuel.

The product has everything going for it -flavor, portability, nutrition- but what I really liked best is that it’s made from real food. They’re dairy/gluten free and vegan, too. Flavors include various chocolate combinations, banana blueberry, coconut cherry, espresso, chia-goji-honey, and more. All of them use a nut butter base, usually almonds but some with peanuts or hazelnuts, which makes them actually filling. We’ve all been on rides where even two or three gels just won’t curb some hunger pains…these seem more likely to do the trick.

The last best part is that they’re available in refillable 1.8oz and 3oz tubes. How, exactly, you’ll get them cleaned out I don’t know, but they’ll offer large refill containers soon.

More go fast stuff to put in your mouth past the break…

powerbar fruit puree energy blends and new performance gels for athletes

Along the same lines, we’re pretty stoked to see PowerBar getting into the “real food” game. Their new Performance Energy Blends are made mostly from real fruit with electrolytes and a few other things added. It’s a start, but they’re not available/shown on PowerBar’s website yet.

Also not shown on their site yet are two new flavors of their original PowerGel: Orange Dream and Pomegranate Blueberry Acai.

Allen Lim’s Skratch Labs sports drink added a Pineapple flavor and has updated their packaging with large, resealable bags.

Louis Garneau LG sports drink powder mix

Following the surprise introduction of their gel earlier this year, Louis Garneau has expanded their nutrition line with the LG1 sports drink. Flavors are Orange and Punch, both tasted pretty decent, and both have basically what you’d expect from a sports drink:

Louis Garneau LG sports drink powder mix

The key differentiator for this one seems to be a pretty high dose of electrolytes. If you’re a frequent cramper or tend to crust your helmet straps in salt, might be worth a try.

Honey Stinger reformulates energy bars and adds full size traditional honey for mass market

Honey Stinger’s Energy Bars get a new formula this month to be a bit more flavorful. The revised version launches with a new Blueberry, and, as current stock sells through, the existing flavors will get updated, too.

They’ve also added a grocery sized organic wildflower honey from Brazil. It’ll be exclusive to Whole Foods at first, then roll out to other retailers. It’s comes from Brazil because they source it from a remote hive so they can trace it directly and ensure the origin. If you follow honey related news, you know there are some real issues with dilution and source verification among mass produced brands. Suggested retail is just $6.95, which is actually really, really competitive if not better than most mass market brands. Oh, and it’s delicious!

H2Overdrive powdered drink mix in bulk and single serve packets

H2O Overdrive, which is one of the more unique beverages out there with no sugar and a healthy dose of caffeine, has up to this point only been available as a ready-to-drink beverage. Having been in the beverage industry for years, I can tell you this: That makes it a) expensive and b) hard to ship. The solution is a powdered drink mix that translates the formula pretty closely and makes it more convenient to store and mix your own as needed. It’ll come in a very large resealable bag as well as single serve packets. The latter will ship to retailers in the round canisters, which they can sell as-is or as individual packs.

Last but not least, Cytomax has reformulated their Grape flavor to remove the caffeine and tone down the flavor profile a bit. It’s milder in every way.

As an aside, virtually all of these brands have expressed interest in sampling through SchwagBox, too! If you haven’t checked that out yet, click the link on get on the mailing list for a VIP invite to join in November.

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Chris
Chris
11 years ago

I heard great things about the Pocket Fuel. Sucks about the almonds though. Damn nerdy nut allergy

Meta
Meta
11 years ago

Stay away from Honey Stinger. False Armstrong is part owner.

dale
dale
11 years ago

Pocket fuel looks good! I’m always hunting for new energy foods. Anything with re-usable or minimal packaging and good taste is an improvement. It always feels gross emptying trash out of my pockets every day. For example I love Clif blocks, but those things could come in a huge 2 lb. tub or something and then you could fill a zip lock bag and re-use it. I already do that with real food like pb sandwiches, fruit, etc., why not with this stuff too? The individual packages are just lame garbage.

Meta
Meta
11 years ago

Tyler, I’d love to consume Honey Stinger, but I’ll wait till they buy-out the doper.

RED
RED
11 years ago

We love Honey Stinger too, but will wait until that tosser is off the wrapper…

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