Italy's Sports Nutrition Pioneers: Enervit Factory Tour

[@gcn]

What's your favourite energy bar flavour? Is anyone REALLY team Coconut?!

[@chrisprice5806]

rootbeer/ sassafras, orange/citrus/ black licorice, fake cherry flavor, tamarind, sesame, rice pudding flavor

[@johnandrews3568]

Back in my racing days we put steaks in our shorts for chamois and ate the well tenderized meat after the stage. LOL We were tough back then, let me tell you.

[@JasonDBike]

That's kinda gay.

[@Pav_1983]

#Global Cycling Network. You say Palm Oil is bad for environment (It's better than dairy) and say nothing about milk and whey. This is by far the most ignorant POV one could have!!!

[@Pav_1983]

@A Rodriguez I don't follow your response. I was referring to scientifically proven environmental facts, not to dietary choices.

[@238949]

Love the way Ollie pushed his glasses up his face when he mentioned "tech" even though he wasn't wearing glasses :)

[@bossg2817]

That's what muscle memory is

[@DarenC]

Should've done his flies up too

[@Bewleys_]

The factory tour style videos are great, between this and the one about the helmets, really smashing it !

[@SlimPickins_07]

I could watch a factory tour of someone making a basket. Love these vids even if they are commercials

[@DonutCHANNELS]

GCN makes the best commercials !

[@DustinParkes]

Me, while watching this video: “This is just a commercial.” Me, after watching this video: /Buys a case of Enervit gels

[@MrLuigi-oi7gm]

HAHAHA! Great one!!!

[@SlimPickins_07]

You too? Lmao

[@thebelly925]

@10:40 I’m sure Ollie was speaking words, and they might have been important, but I was busy being mesmerized by the machine picking out the packets of gel in the background.

[@beckyball1646]

Much as I like watching Ollie, all I could think was "it's picking them up one by one!!! Wow!! Etc, etc..." 😆

[@Seppster58]

Got my Ollie fix this week. Thanks again for an informative tour of the factory. Very interesting.

[@cormacjordan7173]

Is it just me, or did anyone else find the robot arms picking the gel pouches off the belt slightly terrifying?

[@dawoudabdulaziz9920]

An episode from "How it's Made" 😆 Cheers, GCN!

[@flintogle]

Was Ollie feeling a bit drafty at 4:55? Seems his fly got “dropped” a bit…

[@dualissyndrome8666]

Around the jars, no less.

[@dalethornington1527]

I was like, is Ollie's fly open!?, no it can't be. But it was! Even the cameraman missed it or did he? Looked like he was going to zoom right in for a better look! 🧐 lol

[@stevek8829]

Someone named ogle would look.

[@ajustcauseproduction]

I can’t believe the editor missed that…

[@matteoformenti8596]

greetings from northern italy ! LAGO DI COMO ! Welome to my land ! Orgogliosi di esser LARIANI !

[@michaelfisher9760]

Make an energy gel: 1. Boil a kilo of sugar in a pan. 2. Add blancmange powder. 3. Add more sugar. 4. Pour half a teaspoon into an over dramatic sachet. 5. Seal with superglue 6. Charge £2 for it.

[@_AJH_]

I love the factory tour videos. MOAR

[@cb6866]

Thanks Ollie...I worked on a lot of automated processes and the one that picks the gels up , behind you ? Very cool ! Thanks also for the flash back to your hour record attempt....cheers. Peace

[@heidijarvis777]

Having worked in food production I found this really interesting, but you can’t beat a homemade flapjack. 😋

[@johnandrews3568]

I was waiting for Ollie to mention his hour record ride and didn't have to wait long. Probably the only GCN ride where he didn't get dropped.

[@Richarddraper]

I'll carry on making my own flapjacks and rice cakes, thank you very much.

[@JasonDBike]

I just make cake. Streusselkuchen ftw

[@lavefa]

@@JasonDBike Agreed! I just dont understand how we can anyone consume such ULTRA-PROCESSED food.....

[@benlemcke2863]

Homie, your fly is open! 5:40 and onwards. :D

[@Dhungerf60]

Ollie, your flying low!!!!

[@MitchOnTwoWheels]

For a pharma grade facility, I would have thought that when they feed the machines with raw ingredients as they did in the video, they wouldn't be ripping open bags by hand. You can see uneven ripping/tearing marks. What if some of the plastic bits from the raw material bag got into the machine while feeding the product in? Seems like an area of opportunity or improvement to standardize this area. It could lead to less accidents. I would love to try the product, it seems like the company has great passion for their brand, and are committed to fueling high end athletes. Thanks for sharing guys.

[@Kimberly_Sparkles]

Did anyone notice that Ollie’s fly was down? (Looks at 75+ comments on Ollie’s fly being dropped.) Funny, it isn’t even the most offensive thing in this video. (Hair band? On that short hair?)

[@stellawallington8869]

Ollie your flies are undone!!!

[@98408143]

Any chance you could make a 5 minute video of that machine picking the gels off the conveyor belt. It's completely mesmerising!!

[@ramanharahomes2209]

Hey Ollie, did it get a little drafty in the lab? You fly was down!!!!! Hahaha.

[@bikeanddogtripsvirtualcycling]

is gravity stronger in Italy? I think that your zipper had a date with the floor it was so low down. 😂😂

[@markrushton1516]

Up near Lake Como. Rode past the factory when I was in the area

[@scottbert9556]

Pasta in the form of an Italian meal is the alpha and omega of sports nutrition.

[@13ig13oots]

This should've been on the Tech show's snack of the week.

[@ltrtg13]

As a diabetic. I have wondered how energy bars and gels would affect my blood sugar. Mainly when I check my blood sugar after a ride. Would my blood sugar be over the prescribed upper limit.

[@JasonDBike]

If your body can't make insulin, the sugar stays somewhere, right? Better not try and have a shock while riding

[@manderse12]

This was an excellent vid in which we witness Ollie close to his peak Nerditude (PN). With an average PN of over 9000, Ollie is an example for us all. I especially liked this historical perspective and would be curious to know more about what other crazy nutrition beliefs that previous generations of cyclists held. For the look ahead, I'd love to know if there's a growing consensus among experts what the next frontiers of sports nutrition will be in the near and distant future.

[@robbchastain3036]

Top-notch factory tour, Ollie, thanks. And all in all it is great that we know how to fuel ourselves better these days, so much to it, certainly. Tho' I have to say we sort of figured it out back in the '70s when we were riding our bikes like motorcycles--Snickers and a Coke and go for broke.

[@DrSomhairle]

Hey Ollie your fly got dropped at around 5min 50. Best do them up next time!!

[@matt_acton-varian]

I think the science can't really go much further than it already has. I don't think any future product development will have the revolutionary impact as its earlier iterations but instead will primarily evolve with texture, taste and flavour trends. Or perhaps develop personalised nutrition for individual athletes (at a professional level only)

[@motionstudio77]

Interesting, thanks for the tour

[@cwd1232]

Very cool and also interesting!

[@jakubkollar1299]

Those robotic hands picking up the gels behind Ollie’s back in the end made me think about how fucked we are once Skynet turns against us 😆

[@donwright3427]

Good bar line.German Sollich machinery is the best. 70 million is fairly low volume surprisingly

[@declanbroderick4453]

Great to see the inside of the factory, would have liked to see how gels were made as I make my own bars.

[@erilassila409]

I just got a tricycle, my first bike.I live in a city famous for cycling even in the winter (Oulu, Finland) and would love to see more videos of tips and tricks for beginner trike riders.Could y'all make a video of cycling tips and tricks that also apply on three wheels?

[@mnbv5555cxz]

pretty sure Gatorade predates enervit it was introduced mid 60s

[@grahamhayden8969]

Loved the interesting facts at the beginning on the video. They clearly didn’t know a lot back then. 😂

[@bikeanddogtripsvirtualcycling]

when you mentioned the products being gluten free and good for coeliacs - that annoying Paul Simon song started playing through my mind and wont leave me alone. 🎶 coeliacs, you're breaking my heart ...

[@Dangling_Carrot]

It’s one thing to get dropped, but to drop the zipper…well thats a whole new meaning too the word drop.

[@stevenagy7152]

Francesco Moser’s “energy supplements” for the hour record…

[@jonathanizaballer8258]

I was always wondered that how nutrition bar was make And now you guys just make this is video Super duper nice vid gcn very helpful 🚴🏻‍♂️

[@LouieBaLLz]

To bad they don't ship to the US. I would've like to try their products.

[@Dominic-le5sr]

Great informative video Ollie. Many thanks.

[@gcn]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@stefanosinguaroli7615]

My favourites ENERVIT gels are raspberry and tropical fruit flavour 👍🏻🔝😜

[@DiegoCambra]

I actually use the raspberry-flavored gel from enervit. Sure, the stuff is sweet, but so far it's the only gel that didn't ruin my stomach the next day.

[@johnmastronardi]

Cool video but I miss the gcn days of the wattage bazooka and Simon making bars in his kitchen

[@Kimberly_Sparkles]

I thought the Freddie film was dropping this weekend.

[@filipkisicsvoboda8483]

Interesting topic, thanks for that

[@lcc8394]

Italy? Sports Nutrition? i was waiting for Dr Ferrari to show

[@RichardMigneron]

The future is obvious, an aero IV bottle with computer assisted, connected to your GPS head unit, to deliver the appropriate amount of nutrition and liquid directly in the blood flow with respect to difficulty (hill climb %, cobble sections, etc) and wind direction ...

[@adamwagner8291]

I know that every rider is different but at what point do you add nutrition to a ride? Is it based off of calories burned or distance traveled or is dictated by environmental conditions or maybe a combination of all of these things?

[@Grove332]

Technically, palm oil is the most effective oil crop per hectare. The downside is that they grow best in subtropical and equatorial climates, which means decimating swathes of pristine rainforests for agricultural land. Commendable to use something that can be grown in temperate climates.

[@velanrama]

Decimating swathes of pristine rainforests? All kinds of oil agriculture decimates some kind of forests, not palm oil alone. It's kinda unfair to blame that only to palm oil.

[@jeremysweeten2792]

May I suggest Lucy & Ethel for quality control??

[@mileslong9675]

FWIW, I like gluten. It has fiber, which is good for digestion.

[@go4toga812]

Great video. Sadly a lot of the enervit gels taste like toilet cleaner (only a theory regarding the taste of the latter). I am bit puzzled who would prefer it to other and in my opinion better tasting gels. Does the anger about the taste make you faster?

[@marcusantonyledulx]

The future of sports nutrition is eating natural foods that are made just prior to a bike event. On Gran Fondos, I whizz and emulsify Oats cooked in soymilk & drink it from a bidon.

[@James25173]

Hello little Ollie

[@alansmith2593]

I love a good energy bar but think it would be great if there were more savoury energy bar options like a nice spiced butternut cake bar or a Cornish Yarg and sunflower seed bar nom nom

[@stennan]

I like to make my own, using müsli and honey. Perhaps GCN can make a episode about homemade biking snacks?

[@driwen]

they made one already. the name is bit misleading. As it just mentions the drink (which I wouldn't advise to use except in specific circumstances). kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYexaJyCeNSsr8U

[@playandteach]

The future has to be a tablet form with no packaging. Probably something you can make at home.

[@urbanjungle9600]

Seeing those chocolate bars made me think of Caddyshack! If you know, then you just know 😜

[@jason-uz7sz]

what happened to the Mallorca 312 video?

[@farghom]

is this available in usa?

[@stephanwilliot2324]

Bars? I love Cliff bars big fan of Peanut Butter 🤩

[@bbnflpn]

At 9:12 Was Ollie able to take the rejects home?

[@normanlindsay4835]

British ingredients, I think not. Tate & Lyle are now owned by an American company ( ASR group) and the sugar probably came from their Portuguese plant. And where in Britain do they grow sugar cane anyway??

[@british.urchin]

I no longer buy bars, gels, etc. that are wrapped in plastic. I wonder if Enervit has plans to transition to plastic free packaging, or, does anyone know of a manufacturer that does? I can imagine there would be some significant challenges. Generally I get on better with less processed food anyway, and have made my own pocket snacks with some success, including from GCN’s own recipes.

[@scottf3456]

That was interesting.

[@edwardp5748]

believe it or not, that was very interesting! :)

[@biggiepj]

Great video about Enervit and sports nutrition guys. I noticed around the 5:45 mark however that Oli’s fly was open. Soon after there’s talk of him “showing us” something. Naturally I panicked and blacked out. Please let me know how this video ends. FYI: sending therapy bills to GCN accounts payables.

[@sn0tkore]

Harnessing your inner Greg Wallace, Ollie?

[@mrscreamer379]

In the future they will remark "Can you believe athletes were eating junk food and thinking it was improving their performance?"

[@anthonyshillingford848]

So true!!!!!

[@maureennewman70]

Perfect man for this tour. Always good to learn a new gluten free bar option, too!

[@jkruegel1]

Epic, his fly is down 5:40-5:50, that’s not aero

[@iberiksoderblom]

But... Being lactose-intolerant..., sportsbars are almost impossible to get. On ultra's it's impossible to anything homemade at any depot/aid-stations, and if they have bars, its a struggle to see if any contains lactose. I have a high degree of intolerans, that gives me fever and joint-pains and a stomach that either closes up completely or lets everything run right through. Enervit (as with all other bar-makers) doesnt make it clear, if the bar will help me or kill me !

[@alantaylorfarnes]

Équipe means team.

[@saturdaynightmodular2254]

Your fly is down, mate!

[@luismedeiros7139]

How is it made gcn edition

[@connorxsiu]

kinda sad enervit doesnt ship to my country 🥲

[@DrJRMCFC]

Want to become a gel billionaire? A gel that immediately stops cramp...

[@ryanwoods7926]

4:50-5:50 Ollie might want to zip up your fly

[@MrLuigi-oi7gm]

I never knew Ollie had attempted an hour record. 🤔 🤣🤣🤣

[@ACTIVEPAIR]

Low carb high fat, I now fat burn and my liver produces all the carbs I need👍🏽 Do 100k rides on a couple eggs, cheese and nuts. Put Himalayan salt in one of my water bottles and take a few extra rocks!

[@scdeall]

About 5 minutes in Ollie’s zip is down. Could the camera man not have warned the poor bloke?

[@JibbaJabber]

Ollie, as a side note: Did you ride to the the factory, or was you *dropped* off;)

[@bclvb802]

Hey GCN, I’d be happy to join/pay for a KZbin “membership” if it meant you didn’t have to constantly be making ads and pretending they’re content.

[@SlimPickins_07]

So should they just stop showing products? They are in this to make money after all like all of us do every day.

[@danmartin9086]

Are we really much better off from "back in the day"? When you minus all the lightweight gear, there is a strong argument rider watt generation seems to be decreasing

[@super8hell]

then why the average speeds of the peleton are rising? don't be an old curmudgeon.

[@danmartin9086]

@@super8hell because of lightweight more aero gear

[@JMcLeodKC711]

@8:30 Nice chocolate waterfall. Did the Oompa Loompas sing you a song? You know all this stuff is just glorified candy

[@donwinston]

Add 1/2 cup confectioners sugar, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and a couple tablespoons lemon or lime juice to a bottle of water. Cost is about 15 cents in US. Amino acids, vitamins, and other minerals are BS.

[@MrPeterfreeston]

Is Ollie flys undone??

[@Choedron]

Oh, they love to make you believe. Problem is, that there is often too many fast carbohydrates (high GI index) in the products - and people end up consuming too much because they are too concentrated - resulting in gastric upset - and the runs 👍🤣 It is way better to make something yourself and get some proper food on the go. Gels and bars are too expensive per kilo compared to homemade. And is fully possible to make some yourself without a lot of artificially content and E numbers.

[@jbleathersupply3920]

Your fly is down pinhead!

[@bayer048]

OH OH... Ollies Zip!!!! from 4:48 onwards .....it dropped .....

[@davidhughson189]

Who DOESN’T ❤️ Chocolate?

[@aliancemd]

I thought at the beginning that Ollie has a man bun.