Kelsey HigginsonSports Nutrition Coach and Founder at Clutch Day Coaching

Best carbs for athletes

26 May 2025 · 0 min

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In this short nutrition advice clip, the speaker recommends fruit and starchy vegetables—especially sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, grapes, bananas, and apples—as the top carbohydrate sources for athletes. He emphasizes that these foods provide natural sugars for energy and contain micronutrients that support performance, positioning them as healthier alternatives to typical carb staples like bread, pasta, or rice.

The number one carb that I would recommend that's not like bread or pasta or rice or something like that would definitely be fruit and starches. Starches, sweet potatoes and potatoes, such good forms of carbohydrates. And then fruit, any type of fruit, grapes, bananas, apples, anything like that are going to be amazing forms of carbs that have good healthy natural sugars in them that'll help you perform well and give you more micronutrients that your body needs too.