{"id":878,"date":"2013-04-07T14:23:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T03:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/run.dj\/?p=878"},"modified":"2014-08-28T18:50:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T07:50:03","slug":"making-your-own-energy-gels-simpler-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/run.dj\/?p=878","title":{"rendered":"Making Your Own Energy Gels- Simpler Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"

I make my own gels and use them for any event\/ training run where I’m likely to use 4 gels or more. This is because each flask holds about 3 gels. For any shorter event I use commercial gels and I particularly like the Accel Gels from Advantage 1<\/a>\u00a0which have a bit of protein in them.<\/p>\n

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I got to wondering recently if I could simplify my gel recipe even further (here’s the previous post<\/a>). Have you seen that cookbook ‘4 Ingredients<\/a>‘? They take a bunch of stuff that is often already pre made, then combine it to produce something that you might potentially eat. My sister quite rightly calls it ‘food assembly for bogans’.<\/p>\n

But I don’t care about that- I care about making the best possible gel mix in the fastest possible time, and I’ve discovered something worth sharing.<\/p>\n

Cottee’s<\/a>\u00a0seem to be switching all of their cordials to a double strength version, and they were on special at my local shop so I bought a couple of flavours to sample, Coola and Raspberry. I need to tell you- Coola flavour is my favourite ever cordial flavour, it’s like a little bit of my childhood.<\/p>\n

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This means I can delete 3 ingredients from my previous recipe- brown sugar, honey and water and substitute for cordial, but how much cordial?<\/p>\n

240ml of cordial contains 240x 0.67 = 160.8 g of sugar
\nso in 32ml we would have 9.12g of sugar
\n150kj<\/p>\n

so<\/p>\n

serving size 32ml
\nsimple carbs 9.12g
\nComplex Carbs 16.8g
\nTotal Carbs 26g
\ntotal Kj 280+150= 430kj<\/p>\n

which is a little higher than the last recipe, you can compare with commercial gels here<\/a><\/p>\n

Compare this with
\nEndura- 26g carbs, 444kj
\nGu- 20-25g carbs, 420kj
\nTorq- 29g carbs, 468kj<\/p>\n

here’s the recipe-<\/p>\n

Using double strength Cottees Coola cordial<\/p>\n

280g maltodextrin
\n1\/4 teaspoon salt
\n50ml lime juice
\n240ml of cordial<\/p>\n

Yes it really is as simple as mixing it all together in a big bowl, working the lumps out and then putting it in the flasks, which then go straight in the freezer in a sandwich bag. Easy.<\/p>\n

4 Ingredients…. is this a cooincidence? I left in the lime juice because it may be acting as a preservative, you can probably leave it out if you fancy living dangerously.<\/p>\n

Anyway it tastes great, and doesn’t look like baby poo so I’m happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I make my own gels and use them for any event\/ training run where I’m likely to use 4 gels or more. This is because each flask holds about 3 gels. For any shorter event I use commercial gels and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","category-reviews","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/run.dj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/run.dj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/run.dj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/run.dj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/run.dj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/run.dj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1531,"href":"https:\/\/run.dj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/run.dj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/run.dj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/run.dj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}