What is the better hiking snack?
Apples or Bananas?
When spending an active day in the mountains hiking, biking, ski-touring or snow-shoeing it is important to bring the right food along to stay energized and make the most of every minute spent in nature.
Besides full meals and enough fluids, the big debate comes to: what fruit is the best snack to bring along? Berries and grapes can be picked along the trail when in season, in winter they are either not available or very expensive. While kiwis, passion fruits, pears and pineapples are a rare sight in backpacks, bananas and apples can be found in mountaineers' hands throughout the year.
There are many pages detailing the nutritional advantages of both fruits, this page focuses on the convenience factor and is highly influenced by the biased opinion of the author.
Apples are better than bananas because:
- 🍎 don't bruise or smush easily in your backpack.
- 🍎 are more refreshing as they have more water.
- 🍎 have a lot of fruit sugar to energizing you.
- 🍎 leave no trash for you to carry down.
- 🍎 keep the doctor away.
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