Kelsey HigginsonSports Nutrition Coach and Founder at Clutch Day Coaching

10 Foods for Athletes with no appetite

26 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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In this informal YouTube segment, the speaker addresses athletes who struggle with a lack of appetite, explaining that insufficient carbohydrate intake leaves their muscle “energy tanks” depleted, causing sluggishness during training. To quickly replenish these tanks, the speaker lists ten simple, calorie‑dense foods and drinks that are high in carbs: smoothies and shakes, chocolate milk, Greek yogurt with honey, applesauce or fruit, rice and potatoes, crackers, banana with nut butter, oatmeal with honey, dried fruit, and trail mix. The tone is conversational and encouraging, aiming to give athletes practical, easy‑to‑prepare options to maintain energy levels despite low hunger.

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For athletes that have zero appetite, here are 10 super easy foods to eat to get calories in and keep your energy high. Comment food and I'll send you this list. We got smoothies and shakes, chocolate milk, Greek yogurt with honey, applesauce or fruit. You athletes have energy tanks in your muscles. When you have a low appetite, a lot of times you're not filling those energy tanks up, which is why you're feeling super sluggish and low energy at practice. So all of these foods are going to have a good amount of carbohydrates in them, which is going to allow you to fill those energy tanks up so that you can train hard. So we've got rice and potatoes, crackers, banana with a nut butter, oatmeal with honey. I must have really tired when I made this list. I don't know why I put that in there. As far as like carbohydrates go, those do not have carbohydrates in them. And then we have dried fruit and trail mix.