Marcel Hesseling ensures that Team LottoNL-Jumbo’s riders have the correct nutrition at the right moment. Here is how he does it during the Tour de France.

“Daily Fresh sponsors the hot meals and the recovery meals on the bus. I make the menus and Daily Fresh then knows what ingredients they can use. In addition, I keep in mind the length and severity of the stage. For heavy mountain stages, the riders need to eat more, especially extra carbohydrates. That is taken into account in the selection of the meal components. We select easily digestible ingredients that contain the most carbohydrates per unit of weight, such as white rice, white pasta of small pancakes."

“Daily Fresh Food prepares a large part of the nutrition the riders eat during the Tour on site in Geleen. By means of a special cooking technique, the food is prepared in sealed bags. This has the advantage that the nutritional value is better preserved and that the food retains its taste. Especially important, this safe technique guarantees food safety. So we are no longer dependent on how clean the kitchen of the hotel is."