Many sports foods—powders, bars, and ready-made shakes—sold in grocery stores, pharmacies, and health food stores are marketed as being healthy food for an active lifestyle, but they may not be as nutritious as they claim to be, with approximately a third being mislabelled, an in-depth investigation by Australian researchers has found.
PhD candidate Celeste Chapple from Deakin University’s Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN) said their audit looked at the food labelling on the packaging of protein-based products, carbohydrate-based products, and other products like creatine and beta-alanine.
