Kendal Mint Cake is arguably the original energy bar. According to local Lake District legend, a Victorian pot of sugar being boiled for toffee was left unattended on a stove and the resulting opaque product cooled and solidified. Flavoured with peppermint syrup, Kendal Mint Cake was born.
Is Kendal Mint Cake beneficial for exercise?
Well, history suggests so as Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the crest of Mount Everest in 1953, fuelled by four tea chests packed of the stuff.
The website of Romney, who are credited with creating the first Kendal Mint Cake, describes Tenzing breaking off the corner of a bar to leave on the mountain to “appease his gods”. A bar of Kendal Mint Cake contains around 35g carbohydrates plus a sprinkling of electrolytes. In short, its textbook sports nutrition for an energy-boosting sugar hit.
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