digestible, blended fruits rapidly restore your muscle
glycogen. Check out Chris’s Famous Post-Ride Smoothie
(page 231). It’s delicious as well as good for you.
Notice that small amounts of salt are included in a
number of recipes in this chapter. Adding small quantities
of salt to your meals and snacks is perfectly acceptable for
hardworking athletes, who may lose excessive salt in their
sweat.
A final note: I don’t recommend potatoes for anyone,
athletes included, because they are not only high-glycemic-
load foods but also concentrated sources of two saponins
(alpha chaconine and alpha solanine) that compromise the
intestinal barrier.