We partnered with Cara Harbstreet of Street Smart Nutrition to create a fun Arctic® apple recipe that can help fuel athletes before or after training. Healthy eating anytime is less about limiting or restricting intake and more about finding the right balance between nutrition required and energy burned. With that in mind, we give you: Loaded Arctic® Apple Nachos.

In her own words, Cara speaks to some basics of sports nutrition and why snacks like these are so important to athletes or anyone being regularly active.

“Regardless of your fitness or training goals, most of us aren’t going to perform our best or feel our best on an empty tank. But it’s a fine balance between eating enough to feel satiated and energized and feeling overly full and uncomfortable. The gastrointestinal (GI) system performs a lot of functions but can be overlooked during training. Just as we make an effort to train the heart, lungs, muscles, even the brain, we can “train” the GI tract. This can help minimize GI distress or discomfort during training or activity.”

You can read more about sports nutrition basics and healthy eating in Cara’s article.

Meanwhile, are you hungry? We are. Here’s our latest Arctic® apple recipe from Cara’s kitchen.