Kelsey HigginsonSports Nutrition Coach and Founder at Clutch Day Coaching

My favorite carbs for athletes

7 Oct 2025 · 0 min

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In this short nutrition advice video, the speaker recommends that athletes prioritize fruits and starchy vegetables as their primary carbohydrate sources instead of typical grain‑based options like bread, pasta, or rice. Specific examples include sweet potatoes and regular potatoes for starches, and grapes, bananas, and apples for fruit. The speaker emphasizes that these foods provide natural sugars and a rich array of micronutrients, which can support athletic performance and overall health.

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 gonna 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.