Irish-made nutrition products?

High Nellie

Is there any Irish company making sports drinks etc?

connundrum

optimumnutrition.ie/shop-range

Optimum Nutrition, Inc. (ON) was founded in 1987 by two brothers, Tony and Michael Costello. Originally known as Costello's Health Distributors, the entrepreneurial brothers soon recognised an opportunity to significantly improve quality and innovation in the sports nutrition industry. Their mission was to provide innovative products of consistently high quality to active adults the world over. The company is now part of Glanbia, a leading international cheese and nutritional ingredients group.

kenmc

kinetica maybe? too lazy to go to kitchen to check

kumate_champ07

Irish beef is the best in the world, wonder if anyone makes beef jerky here?

el Bastardo

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

Irish beef is the best in the world, wonder if anyone makes beef jerky here?

As long as you think so. Personally I prefer a good Argentine or Mexican steak.

Yep, it be Irish: http://www.kineticasports.com/history-i44

It's not bad either, from what little I've had of their product.

kenmc

I find the kinetica recovery and protein shakes very very good. high5 for on the bike for me, kinetica off.

High Nellie

Am I a cheapskate or is that stuff very expensive? Kinetica for example is 3 Euro a pop - thats 12 euro a week for recovery alone if u are doing 4 hard sessions.

This was prompted by a discount offer from Ribble for High5 but even that came to 2E per session for recovery.

Any science types out there who can tell us how to get suitable quick absorbing protein and carbo out of basic food? I believe a glass of low-fat milk would go a long way?

wendell borton

ashleey

Traditional Irish diet is best. Porridge for breakfast, brown bread for lunch and stew for dinner. Leave the most of the gels and potions for astronauts

AstraMonti

ashleey wrote: »

Traditional Irish diet is best. Porridge for breakfast, brown bread for lunch and stew for dinner. Leave the most of the gels and potions for astronauts

I kinda doubt that carbs, carbs and a fatty dinner (with carbs) is the best diet :pac:

ashleey

I was thinking beef stew but I know what you mean

Lumen

AstraMonti wrote: »

I kinda doubt that carbs, carbs and a fatty dinner (with carbs) is the best diet :pac:

If you don't have the fat in your dinner, when else are you going to fit it in?

colm_gti

High Nellie wrote: »

Am I a cheapskate or is that stuff very expensive? Kinetica for example is 3 Euro a pop - thats 12 euro a week for recovery alone if u are doing 4 hard sessions.

This was prompted by a discount offer from Ribble for High5 but even that came to 2E per session for recovery.

Any science types out there who can tell us how to get suitable quick absorbing protein and carbo out of basic food? I believe a glass of low-fat milk would go a long way?

Milk has a good amount of protein and sugars (lactose), which in theory would be great after a cycle, but it's mostly casein, a slow digesting protein, when you would benefit much more from whey, which is a very fast digesting protein. Ideally you want 2 parts carbs (sugar) to 1 part protein to replenish your glycogen stores after depleting them during a hard spin, as your body begins to burn muscle when you're all out of glycogen fuel (this is the reason you need to eat on the bike too). I mix 2 parts glucose (you get it from the baking aisle in tesco etc.) to 1 part whey protein (currently kinetica).

If you think of it this way, a 2.27kg tub of Kinetica whey is €45, and you get 76 servings from 1 of them, and 500g of glucose is no more than €2, so each recovery drink is costing you less than 80c.

Planet X

Just purchased the above. Thanks for the info.

colm_gti

Planet X wrote: »

Just purchased the above. Thanks for the info.

You'll be glad you did when you're in France

A lot of lads I know used to complain about the cost of recovery shakes etc, but when you look at it, it costs less per serving than a pint of milk.

Planet X

Yeah, I reckon.

Actually, at the moment I take nothing as in "Recovery Drinks" after a hard spin. Probably not too good?
Sorted now. Looks like a good site. Wasn't aware of it at all.

colm_gti

Planet X wrote: »

Yeah, I reckon.

Actually, at the moment I take nothing as in "Recovery Drinks" after a hard spin. Probably not too good?
Sorted now. Looks like a good site. Wasn't aware of it at all.

Yeah, Irish based shop too, there's a store around the corner from me in Terenure, have been buying stuff off them for a good while now.

Ah it's not that it's bad not to take a recovery drink, you're probably just experiencing more muscle wastage than you would if you were taking one

High Nellie

colm_gti wrote: »

Milk has a good amount of protein and sugars (lactose), which in theory would be great after a cycle, but it's mostly casein, a slow digesting protein, when you would benefit much more from whey, which is a very fast digesting protein. Ideally you want 2 parts carbs (sugar) to 1 part protein to replenish your glycogen stores after depleting them during a hard spin, as your body begins to burn muscle when you're all out of glycogen fuel (this is the reason you need to eat on the bike too). I mix 2 parts glucose (you get it from the baking aisle in tesco etc.) to 1 part whey protein (currently kinetica).

If you think of it this way, a 2.27kg tub of Kinetica whey is €45, and you get 76 servings from 1 of them, and 500g of glucose is no more than €2, so each recovery drink is costing you less than 80c.

Thanks - you sound like you know what you are talking about. So, in simple terms, how many 'scoops' of the recovery/protein should I take in a bottle for recovery after hard intervals or race etc. I weigh 150 lbs / 68kg? (sometimes I think you'd need to be a scientist or a mathematican to read the instructions!)

colm_gti

High Nellie wrote: »

Thanks - you sound like you know what you are talking about. So, in simple terms, how many 'scoops' of the recovery/protein should I take in a bottle for recovery after hard intervals or race etc. I weigh 150 lbs / 68kg? (sometimes I think you'd need to be a scientist or a mathematican to read the instructions!)

There's a lot of guidelines as to how much you should be taking, some say something like 1.5g protein per kg or something like that, that's getting very nitty gritty, there's no need for that unless you're an elite cyclist (or just very interested in nutrition etc). When I was trying to gain muscle mass for my previous sporting interests, I used to take one scoop with water at breakfast, one scoop with water after an anaerobic/weights session, and one scoop with milk before bed, while eating properly of course, but now that I've called it a day with that sport (15 years of injury was enough :rolleyes:), I just take one scoop with glucose after a tough spin, have a shower and then get a good balanced meal into me within an hour of getting home.