Our Explore Supercharged Pasta Meals have been designed to provide easily accessible, useful and effective nutritional fuel in a convenient, lightweight, low volume package. Simply add hot water to the pack, give it a stir and leave to rehydrate for 10 minutes.
It is TORQ’s Performance Nutrition heritage that makes our Explore Meals so unique and sets them apart from other outdoor food products in the marketplace. Each pack contains over 500 calories of high quality functional food to provide the energy needed to get the most out of your adventurous activities. By focussing on functionality, TORQ’s Explore Meals significantly out-perform higher calorie alternatives.
If you have a big expedition to the North Pole and you’re going to be away for weeks, it’s a completely different story and you will need a range of nutrients including foods that are high in fat (and the specific fat-soluble vitamins contained within) in order to achieve energy balance (calories in = calories out) and remain healthy, but this is very different to fuelling an expedition over the shorter term, like a weekend or a couple of weeks away. For these shorter trips, it’s a common misconception that you actually need to achieve energy balance – you don’t. Even the leanest of individuals have substantial fat stores, which are freely available to be burned to provide energy and there are a variety of reasons why a meal rich in high quality protein and carbohydrate (and low in fat) will provide significant performance/energy benefits:
Internal Carbohydrate Stores are Limited:The human body can only store around 500g or 2,000 calories of carbohydrate and low carbohydrate stores lead to loss of muscle power and feelings of fatigue. Since fat is stored in plentiful supply within the human body, maintaining carbohydrate intake through foods rich in carbohydrate calories is logical and will deliver the best physical performances.
Fat Slows the Absorption of Carbohydrate:As well as being an irrelevant nutrient from a fuelling perspective, dietary fat slows down the absorption of carbohydrate, because it moves so slowly through the digestive tract. This makes foods that are high in fat uncomfortable on the stomach, causing heaviness and indigestion during physical activity as well as blocking the absorption of a useful fuel the body really needs.
20-25g of Protein is Optimal:Consuming more than 20-25g of protein in one serving is not necessary, because the human body is only capable of processing and making constructive use of this much at a time. For optimal performance and muscle structure maintenance, you should look to consume 20-25g of protein 5 times per day. Your TORQ Explore Meal provides one of these servings at any time of day.
- Just Add Hot Water / Ready in 10 Minutes
- Part of theSupercharged SystemTM
- Over 500 Functional Calories
- 100g Carbohydrate
- 25g Protein
- Under 3g Fat
- Shared Nutritional Profiles*