Instead of candy bars, a French entrepreneur wants special forces troops to eat a new snack she developed. So far, the results are good.
background to look at combat rations. So she did three things: first, she questioned 260 soldiers. She wanted to know what food they liked, particularly while on missions outside France; she looked at what they didn’t eat in their combat rations, what personal foods they took with them, and what foods they found pleasurable. She then read scientific studies on military nutrition and followed this up with ground research, spending almost a year with troops.
“People talk of technologically augmented soldiers—I talk of nutritionally less incapacitated soldiers,” she says with a smile. That’s because she estimates that they spend about 4,000 calories a day, while NATO puts that number for combat or special forces operators at about 4,900 calories a day, and in cold weather these energy requirements exceed 6,000 calories. But the French daily rations are only 3,500 calories.
As a single-woman startup, she wasn’t about to replace the French armed forces combat rations, but she thought she could do something about the all-important snacks by developing one that would be “practical, healthy, effective and natural” and would give soldiers, whom she compares to high-performance athletes, an energy boost while awaiting their next “proper” meal.
“It had to be something that they wanted to eat, that wouldn’t melt or crumble, that is not sticky, that would remain edible even if it was squashed, that would provide the calories these superheroes need,” she explains.She worked out two basic recipes in her mother’s kitchen: one with figs, dates, almonds and walnuts, and the other with hazelnuts and dark chocolate. Each has a smattering of caffeine or theine for that extra energy kick, and vegetable proteins.
Oullion-Simon has called them MOS Energy Balls and her start-up company MOS Nutrition. MOS stands both for “military optimized
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