Apurna Energy Cake Review

For weeks, you’ve been preparing for your goal. You’ve done everything right, and at the last minute, inadvertently or out of ignorance, you mess everything up, in less than half an hour or during your breakfast. If there’s one step not to miss, it’s taking your last meal before the competition… Apurna’s Energy Cake can help you solve the problem.

By Jean-François Tatard – Photos: Jeff Tatard / DR

During a competition or a long training session, your energy reserves will be heavily used. The same applies to your liver functions and intestinal transit. And if we add the exceptional stress related to the event, it is crucial to choose carefully what will make up your last meal. Thus, specially designed for athletes who want to take on an endurance event, Apurna’s pre-effort cake fully addresses this issue.

You take it before the race, often at breakfast, but it digests so quickly that it’s even possible to enjoy it at the last minute without being disturbed. Its composition is the result of several years of research in sports nutrition within Apurna’s R&D unit. Its composition thus corresponds to the most adequate nutritional load for the effort that awaits you.

Some figures

• 81g of carbohydrates
• 538 kcal
• Phosphorus, Magnesium and Zinc which contribute to normal energy metabolism
• Magnesium and Iron which help reduce fatigue
• Zinc which helps protect cells against oxidative stress

Some ingredients

Sucrose, flour preparation (wheat flour, wheat gluten, fava bean flour, malted wheat flour), yeast, enzymes, antioxidant (ascorbic acid), lean cocoa (16%), fructose, whole egg powder, chocolate chips 8% (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, emulsifier (soy lecithin), natural vanilla flavor), vegetable fat (sunflower oil, glucose syrup, milk protein, anti-caking agent (silicon dioxide), stabilizer (potassium phosphate), Prolacta® (3.5%) (native soluble milk protein isolate, emulsifier – soy lecithin), salt, raising agents (sodium bicarbonate, di-sodium di-phosphate), minerals (tri-magnesium di-citrate, zinc sulfate), vitamin B1.

In addition to being “anti-doping” validated and approved by the Groupama-FDJ professional cycling team and even by the French Athletics Federation, Apurna recommends this cake for all endurance sports: running in all its forms, cycling, swimming but also tennis, football, etc…

Let’s put on the apron

No need to be called Pierre Hermé or Cyril Lignac to make a successful cake. It’s the fastest and simplest design in pastry history…

NECESSARY UTENSILS

• A mixing bowl
• A tablespoon
• A measuring cup
• A mold
• A little oil to grease the mold and a piece of paper towel to help us
• An oven that heats to 180°C
• And I almost forgot to write: the Apurna pot

The good news

Even the microwave can bake the cake. With a big advantage: you forget the traditional 15 minutes of preheating and 30 minutes of baking. And your portion is ready in three minutes flat! You no longer even need to make your cake the day before. You can make it directly in the morning as soon as you wake up.

Instructions for use

You open the box and the first thing you can say is that it already smells really good. Then, you pour 133 g of the 400 g of powder contained in the Apurna box into a mixing bowl. Then you add 100 ml of water. Next, with a tablespoon, you homogenize. You stir. You agglomerate. You standardize. In short, I don’t know much about culinary language, but you mix until you get a harmonious dough. A dough that you then place in a suitable dish that you have previously greased with oil on a paper.

All that’s left is to put it in the microwave for three minutes and you can be called Maïté…

Advantages and benefits

Good, Digestible, Nutritious, Fast and Simple!

I still often hesitate to serve it to my guests and not tell them anything about this secret recipe. Making them believe that I am as competent in cooking as I am in sports. Making this cake takes me five minutes, from preparation to the end of baking. It’s also one less stress. No need to think. You can completely trust this cake and only worry about your race without risking failure or digestive problems. It’s really good. Blindfolded, by taste, you’d be far from imagining it’s a diet cake. Moreover, it doesn’t make you thirsty and it’s not heavy. After having it for breakfast, I have already managed to finish cycling races and even a marathon without adding anything else food-wise throughout the race, except the equivalent of a liter of sweetened water. I’m always very afraid of digestion. I’m sensitive in that area. With this cake, no stomach ache or gastric problems. It is excessively digestible and during the race, I don’t have stomach aches or intestinal problems. When you know how anxiety-inducing a long and hard-prepared competition can be, it’s a real mental comfort to know that you can count on this cake. From now on, I won’t change my ritual…

And finally, why Apurna?

For at least three reasons. The first is that Apurna is a Breton company. And a Breton will always favor a Breton (Laughs). But beyond this misplaced chauvinism, it’s mainly because Apurna respects its commitments in terms of quality. Made in France in this field is rare enough to be highlighted.

Apurna innovates with Prolacta. Prolacta is the result of several years of research and clinical studies. It is a patented protein concentrate rich in essential amino acids and particularly in Leucine (BCAA). Behind the name Prolacta lies a well-kept manufacturing secret. Indeed, it is a unique cold microfiltration process that preserves all the original qualities and guarantees an incomparable level of purity. The effectiveness for muscles is therefore faster and more efficient.

Apurna’s chosen sustainable development also catches my attention, as the brand places great importance on energy and raw material management on manufacturing lines, from start to waste treatment. For example, the company has seen its water consumption reduce by 33% in seven years, and they have optimized the treatment of their wastewater to improve its quality. Finally, I recently learned that Apurna has made progress on packaging and its eco-design.

And finally, it may not be objective at all, but the people at Apurna are really nice. It’s silly, but all things being equal, I’ll always go for the nicest people…

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