UPDATE: Spring Energy Responds (and MORE!) | RunningGeekGirl
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- čas přidán 22. 07. 2024
- You may have heard me talk about Spring Energy Awesome Sauce on the channel before. Well, now quite a few people are talking about it. Is the Sauce really as Awesome as it claims? Many folks are saying no. Let's follow the current timeline of the Spring Energy Fiasco.
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🖥️ Post from SportHunger (Germany): / spring_energy_gel_16g_...
🖥️ Email from Spring Energy: / false_nutritional_info...
🖥️ Spring Energy Lab Report: / spring_energy_supplies...
🖥️ Results from Jason Koop labs: / results_of_jason_koops...
0:00 Intro
0:35 The story so far
1:35 SportsHunger (Germany) testing
2:04 A response from Spring Energy
3:34 Lab results from Spring Energy
4:29 Questions about the lab results
5:17 Jason Koop lab results
6:18 Awesome Sauce disappears from the website
6:47 Awaiting GFM lab results
7:04 Outro
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Thanks for the update, Heather! I"m just following from the sidelines but this is super helpful. Coincidentally I just listened to David and Megan Roche's SWAP Running podcast. (Episode 207, I'm a week behind. They might have said more since.) They collaborated on Awesome Sauce with Spring Energy but said that they had stopped using it themselves or recommending it to athletes they coach for the same reason others have given, that it didn't seem to deliver the 180 calorie punch it advertised.
Fascinating! I’ll have to give that a listen! 🤓
@@RunningGeekGirl They start talking about it around 33 minutes, if you want to skip to it. There's training talk right afterwards that's good too.
@@largeeddie Awesome! I’ll cue that up on my next run.
That was a very wordy email with not much content from spring. The fact that they will modify, revise, innovate, and re-evaluate their products just means they were caught and now have to find a way to save their company from a huge class action lawsuit.
Very true. They still haven’t explained how the discrepancy happened in the first place, as these numbers don’t at all suggest normal variation in the cooking process. Either they knew and didn’t care or had no idea whatsoever, and I’m not sure which of those is worse. 🤓
Excellent and balanced summary of the SE issue. I have been following Jason Koop for years and listened to his podcast on SE. His expertise and credentials are unquestionable. 40-50% difference from carb and calorie values on product labels is not due to manufacturing process differences. SE submitting their own sample (maybe different than what's available) to a lab is not credible. Their email is a deflection. These companies haven't learned from the Tylenol public relations fiasco. And note that it's sponsored athletes like Sage Canaday and Ruth Croft are silent. Thank you, Heather.
It would have been a smart move on their part to just own up to the mistake, start issuing refunds, and fix it, but they doubled down and got more lab reports that still didn’t make any sense! I noticed people kept tagging Sage, but no response so far (which may be a smart move). Thanks for watching! 🤓
Thanks for putting this timeline together! I’ve been looking all over for a general summary of what’s happening. Great video!
Glad to help! Thanks so much for watching! 🤓
This is crazy, one of the most expensive gel seems to be a scam. It's annoying to think you train hard and think you are fueling properly only to find out it's not true. I am looking forward to the June results on all other gels to see if we are getting what is advertised as well. Thanks for the updates!
I’ll definitely try to do another update when there are results available, as well as cover the second statement SE put out yesterday afternoon. Thanks so much for watching! 🤓
I’ve not had too much experience with these or similar products. I’ve tried Gatorade gummies years ago. Thought things like that would end up being a choking hazard while running. Tried some different gooie packets and they’re ok I guess. Those little stinger waffle things are cute. They taste ok. Eating a banana is good. I guess I don’t need a huge meal while running a race. Now afterwards… I’m so hungry I could eat a wagon wheel!
After-race hunger is a dangerous thing! 🤣🤣🤣
What did you think of their official release on their Instagram?
It seems like more of a restatement of what was in the email they sent out, but at least they’ve made the commitment to reformulating. It still doesn’t answer how there was such a large variation in the numbers, nor whether any other flavors have been tested, but this is a great start! 🤓
Not surprising a lot of words but not really anything but pushing off blame.
I can’t tell if they genuinely didn’t know or knew but didn’t think it was a big deal. Either way, it looks bad. 🤓