Power Your Workout With a Jelly Doughnut
It may be better than the alternatives. According to Are You Sugar Coating Your Workout:
Most personal trainers surveyed (65 percent) said their clients are fueling their workouts with nutrition bars or shakes. However, both personal trainers and consumers are unaware of the wide range of nutrition content found in popular nutrition bars.
When asked which in a list of food items has the most sugar, more than one in three personal trainers incorrectly identified a Krispy Kreme(R) glazed doughnut as having more sugar than many popular nutrition bars. In an October 2006 consumer survey, half of American adults surveyed made the same mistake in response to the same question. In reality, a PowerBar Performance top-selling* Chocolate bar (18g of sugars) and Clif Bar’s top-selling* Crunchy Peanut Butter (18g of sugars) tip the sugar scale more than a Krispy Kreme glazed doughnut (10g of sugars).
Of course I’m being sarcastic about the doughnut. The article identifies low-sugar nutrition bars as an alternative. But why stop there? Why not have a megamuffin, or a grilled chicken salad? Or a chicken salad made with non-fat yogurt rather than mayonnaise? Why, in other words, turn to a highly processed nutrition bar at all?