SIS v Jelly Babies?

[Edam]

SIS: 60 ml sachet contains 86 kcal Cost £1

Sachet advice is to consume 3-4 sachets per hour!

Jelly Babies: 227g pack contains 750 kcal Cost: cheap!
(Morrisons)

Discuss?

[Ady In Accy]

A bit of both + Asda soft cheese & onion sandwich.

[Al Fowler]

Ive got the gels and they seem to work.

I had tried jelly babies when out on training runs and they didn’t seem too bad.

But, the gels are specially for endurance sports whereas jelly babies are just sweets. So you could argue that the SIS is the more reliable....but....jelly babies are always been used for sport.

I also use Mars Bars.

[mxhornet]

On the whole I'd choose jelly babies myself.

As for a savoury sandwich

[Al Fowler]

On the whole I'd choose jelly babies myself.

As for a savoury sandwich

I had a jam sandwich on the Roaches!

[mxhornet]

Something sweet wouldn't be so bad, depends on the jam though I don't like most flavours.

[Donkarlo]

I find a bit of food from both camps works well, gels give you energy but jelly babies taste good. Bit of savoury good for the salts handful of peanuts. Nutri grain bars, rice crispie squares very good for weight vs calories but just see what works for you, experiment. Dried fruit also works for me and is Lower GI as are oat cakes.

[Al Fowler]

I find a bit of food from both camps works well, gels give you energy but jelly babies taste good. Bit of savoury good for the salts handful of peanuts. Nutri grain bars, rice crispie squares very good for weight vs calories but just see what works for you, experiment. Dried fruit also works for me and is Lower GI as are oat cakes.

I have to confess - I quite like the Gels, both taste and texture.

[huf&puf]

Can't be doing with jelly babies.. way to sweet.. I think I'd be sick. Mind you I don't do well eating on runs at all.

Plus....I'm probably totally wrong here but I think that nutritionally speaking Jelly Babies are not the 'right' or 'best' kind of carbohydrate for re-fueling, ie: they're monosaccharide ( see http://www.sweetiebag.com/sweets-cho...-Babies-54.asp ) rather than a polysaccharide / complex carbohydrate like Maltodextrin ?????? Anyone know about this?

Hear you on the gels - pretty expensive and don't seem very good value per calorie

Having said all that... each to his own and if it works....don't fix it

[Stolly]

I hate 'cold snot' gels and have moved on from jelly babies to fruit pastiles. I now seem good to go for up to 24 miles with half a large packet of fruit pastiles, one lucozade sport and a bottle of water. Above that and I think I need a sandwich too.