banana, orange turkey wrap

Whether you are hiking or taking a snack to the office, choose real food not processed packaged foods. Stay fueled and energized on your next hiking trip with healthy and nutrient-packed "real food" hiking foods that will keep hiking all day long!

Choosing"real food" will provide your body with more vitamins, minerals, antioxidants that help your body recover.

Whole Wheat Tortilla with pesto and Swiss cheese, small amount of chicken, banana, and a mandarin orange.

VERSUS

Protein Bar and 3 tablespoons trail mix.

Compare the nutrition of the snacks  in the table below.

For roughly the same amount of calories and protein, the real food snack provides more vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and fiber (12 g versus only 2 g). The real food meal is more nutrient dense. The real food meal provides more actual amount of food and will be more filling. The processed meal has more fat and sugars.

 
Foods
 
Calories
 
Carbs
 
Fat
 
Protein
 
Sugars
 
Fiber
 
1.5 oz. Chicken Breast
 
60
 
1g
 
1g
 
11g
 
0g
 
0g
 
1 Multi-grain Tortilla
 
150
 
23g
 
4g
 
4g
 
2g
 
5g
 
1.5 Tbsp Basil Pesto
 
66
 
2g
 
6g
 
1g
 
0g
 
1g
 
1 oz. Swiss Cheese
 
80
 
1g
 
6g
 
7g
 
0g
 
1g
 
1 Banana
 
105
 
27g
 
0g
 
1g
 
14g
 
3g
 
1 Cuties Mandarin Oranges
 
40
 
8g
 
0g
 
1g
 
7g
 
2g
 
TOTAL:
 
501
 
62g
 
17g
 
25g
 
23g
 
12g
 
Foods
 
Calories
 
Carbs
 
Fat
 
Protein
 
Sugars
 
Fiber
 
Gatorade Whey Protein Bar
 
360
 
42g
 
13g
 
20g
 
31g
 
1g
 
3 Tbsp Kirkland Trail Mix
 
160
 
12g
 
10g
 
5g
 
9g
 
1g
 
TOTAL:
 
520
 
54g
 
23g
 
25g
 
40g
 
2g

Categories:   Food  Hiking and Mountaineering 

Tags:   #sportsnutrition

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