Food / Hydration

Item No. 3 on my list of “Five Gear Innovations” is. . . Energy Food that Tastes Good!

These double-walled water bottles are made of stainless steel and touted as addressing “the growing concern of toxic chemicals leaching from consumer products.”

Sugar takes a back seat. With Clif Bar & Company’s Mojo Bar, the “salty” part of the equation is key.

“Unwind from the Grind” with an alcohol-free relaxation drink. Reviewer Stephen Krcmar finds out if there is better sleep through chemistry.

Salazon Chocolate Co. touts its bars as an energy food, not a candy.

Justin’s Nut Butter is making a series of chocolate-flavor nut butters that will soon be available in jars and squeeze packs.

When you’re craving junk food during a long ride or workout, nothing is better than junk food without the junk: Sport Beans recently transitioned to…

The aluminum water bottles many of us have been using over the past couple years may NOT be free of the chemical BPA after all.

To fuel a squad of bike racers like Team Garmin-Slipstream during the Tour de France and other events it can take upward of 7,000 calories…

Its design has roots in a water bottle made almost 80 years ago. But the SIGG Retro Heritage bottle, available next month, is strangely similar…

Don’t call the KOR ONE a water bottle. This one-foot-tall elliptical flask is indeed a “hydration vessel”. . .

You may have recently noticed GU Roctane at your local outdoor retailer. You may also have noticed that this energy gel costs 50 to 100…

It’s a little strange popping open a small tin filled with oily fish that still have bones and scales intact. Sure, the heads and tails…

Not often would I write about bottled water. I’m more of the mind that you should refill a metal (or non-BPA poly) bottle with filtered…

Justin’s Nut Butter makes the salty sustenance and nutritional boost of good ol’ fashioned nut butter now available in tear-and-squeeze packages for carrying in a…

After a long hiatus from trail mix, I am back into the nutty/fruity energy-food concoctions. Specifically, Bear Naked Inc. of La Jolla, Calif., makes a…

BPA is dead. After years of dragging its feet, Nalgene Nunc International has dropped the controversial chemical from its entire line of water bottles. Oh,…

For winter camping, summer canoe trips, car camping, or leisurely backpacking trips, quality dehydrated food can add hugely to the experience. For this review, I…

Brewing up a good cup of coffee in the outdoors often requires a French press or a portable — but always bulky — camp-stove-compatible espresso…

In outdoor sports like trail running, mountain biking, adventure racing, and climbing, getting the right mix — and the right amount — of carbs, fats,…

There really is nothing like a brown-rice-syrup-acai-berry-shelled-hemp- seed-peanut-butter-rolled-rye-flax-seed- cashew-almond-evaporated-cane-liquified- alfalfa-wheat-grass-juice-rice-flour energy bar. Nothing. Nothing but the Probar Superfood Slam bar, that is. . .

In the realm of oddball outdoors food, Command Foods’ line of lunchtime oatmeals — including Broccoli Cheese, Tangy Lemon Chick’n, and Vegetable — takes some…

Matisse & Jacks is a small San Francisco company that makes boxed mixes for bake-at-home energy bars, competing against the likes of Clif and PowerBar…

Pop a pill in water, let it dissolve for a few seconds, and drink. nuun (all lowercase by request of the company!) contains an elemental…

The Gel-Bot is one of my favorite new products. It’s essentially a water bottle with an integrated gel-dispensing flask. A multi-position valve lets you suck…