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Recent research from the US Journal of Nutrition has highlighted the effectiveness of fast-acting high-sugar snacks for athletes in need of a boost, a study that would be backed up by jelly baby munchers including European 200m silver medalist Christian Malcolm and former decathlete Dean Macey.

Jelly babies fall into the ‘simple’ carbohydrate category of food: unlike, say, pasta, a ‘complex’ slow-released carbohydrate, the babies’ sugar is converted to glucose almost instantly, fast-tracking energy to your muscles – and stopping your legs turning into jelly on the pitch.


Read more at https://www.fourfourtwo.com/performance/nutrition/get-babies-board#xCXvixTZT5gb7dzL.99

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