On-the-go superfood packed with the most bioavailable nutrients for sustained energy

The short answer is no! But a lot of trail and ultra runners replace their gels with Hunghee packs.

Now for the long answer! Most conventional energy gels, drinks, and bars are made with refined sugars, synthetic vitamins, and preservatives that wreak havoc on your organs and negatively impact your health, athletic performance and longevity. When you consume one of these products, you will feel a surge in energy due to a spike in blood sugar. Your pancreas secretes insulin to carry the glucose to your cells to use for immediate energy. You experience a sugar rush, followed by a sugar crash, followed by fatigue and inevitable cravings for more. Although insulin is an amazing hormone that plays a key role in transporting energy into our cells, it is crucial this hormone never gets overworked. When insulin can't do its job due to too much sugar consumption, you become insulin resistant, allowing sugar to build up in the bloodstream causing your blood vessels to harden and narrow. The inability of insulin to function properly can lead to some serious health risks including diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and organ failure. BUT, there's good news! By being your own health advocate - reading labels and learning how nutrients are utilized in the body - you can make good choices to fuel your activities and accomplish your goals without sacrificing your health!

Hunghee Energy is made in small batches with pure, nutrient-dense ingredients that are never processed or altered from their natural state. This allows your body to efficiently digest the nutrients and fuel your muscles during activity without spiking blood sugar or creating any inflammatory metabolic byproducts. Organic grass-fed ghee is a healthy fat and slow burning fuel source packed with Omega-3's and butyric acid. When combined with raw honey, a fast burning fuel source packed with B vitamins and enzymes, they make the perfect combo to provide a smooth release of energy during your activity. Since fat acts as an insulin buffer, honey will not cause an influx of excess sugar in the bloodstream since the pancreas and liver work together to utilize both fuel sources as needed. Honey will refuel glycogen depleted muscles to maintain strength while the fat from ghee will be converted into essential fatty acids that fuel the duration of the activity. Together, honey and ghee create this synergistic effect to fuel peak performance and adventure!

At Hunghee, we embrace ingredient transparency as a best practice and hope to inspire the food industry to do the same! Check out where our ingredients are sourced and learn more about their benefits here.

Now offered in glass jars, our superfood spreads are made with the same recipe as our ancestral energy packs. Instead of taking them on-the-go, you can enjoy all the benefits of raw honey, grass-fed ghee, and ancient sea salt at home. Try spreading it on toast, pancakes, fruit, or adding it to oatmeal, yogurt, or coffee.

Remember to stir your jars occasionally, or store in the fridge, because we never use any emulsifiers, preservatives or synthetic ingredients to maintain the integrity of our premium ingredients. Think of Hunghee like butter. When it's cold, Hunghee will have more of a fudge texture and when it's hot, it will have more of a melted frosting texture.

In today’s culture, we tend to equate caffeine with energy. Caffeine will certainly give you “energy” in the short term, but you pay the price once the caffeine wears off. The brief perception of increased energy is actually a combination of 1) adenosine receptors being blocked by caffeine, making you feel more awake, 2) increased stress hormone adrenaline, and 3) glycogen dumping providing elevated blood glucose levels. Once this wears off, people often experience a caffeine crash as the body tries to recover from the state of hyper stimulation. This begins a positive feedback loop where people chronically consume caffeine to ward off the crash, eventually causing a state of chronic exhaustion.

Sustained energy comes from whole, nutrient dense foods that our bodies can breakdown and distribute with little to no inflammatory metabolic byproducts. The healthy fat in grass-fed ghee is a slow burning fuel source that can sustain athletes throughout their performance. Meanwhile the combination of fructose and glucose from raw honey is a fast burning fuel source that supports and replenishes lost glycogen and electrolytes in tired muscles, providing the strength to persevere during more energy intensive activities. Together, ghee and honey create a synergistic effect with the fat acting as an insulin buffer, slowing down the transport of glucose to the muscles to provide a much smoother, consistent release of energy. Without this buffer, even raw honey has the potential to cause an insulin spike.

Absolutely not! Hunghee Energy is perfect for all kinds of activities including backpacking, rock climbing, adventuring, strength training, high intensity interval training, weekend warriors, and of course, athletes. Hunghee can also be a healthy snack or dessert alternative for the whole family!