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Put Your Hunger on Hold With a Tastier Take on Gorp Trail Mix
The blend of “good ol’ raisins and peanuts” can be better than the usual fare.
Blue Stripes Whole Cacao Superfood trail mix
Photographer: Stephen Lewis for Bloomberg Businessweek
The best thing you can say about gorp, the ur-trail mix of “good ol’ raisins and peanuts,” is that it provides enough metabolic fuel to get you to the trail’s end, where (let’s hope) real, raisinless food awaits. Blue Stripes Whole Cacao Superfood trail mix ($15) finds the sweet spot between the virtuous and the indulgent, with cashews, goji berries, chocolate-coated whole cacao beans, and fruit leather made from the nutrient-packed fruit of cacao pods.
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