A small soup pot with herbs and ingredients is worth more than 2,000 dollars. From 6 a.m. to 5 p.m., it takes 11 hours to make a pot of soup, which is only enough for eight athletes.
Athletes of the national team take their meals in the cafeteria
The 2008 Beijing Olympics are drawing near, and the national teams of various sports are preparing for the games. Nutritional diet is also an important aspect that cannot be ignored in the achievement of gold medals. In the end, what to eat, how to eat in order to make athletes to ensure that the game required adequate nutrition? In order to have a deeper understanding of this, the reporter recently came to the State General Administration of Sports Training Bureau, "food visit" a few training bases.
Fencing team staple food more than ten kinds
Fencing sports project management center not long ago hired a nutritionist, the reporter chose the first stop here. Gao Ming, head of the scientific and medical team, told reporters that now the level of competition is getting higher and higher, and the gap between the strongest teams is not big, in order to achieve good results, the role of diet has become more and more important. Fencing program athletes need to maintain a high degree of concentration during the game, in the diet should eat sugary food, drink more water, eat less meat.
The fencing team's lunch time is 11:30 to 13:30, the reporter in the pungent aroma led down to the athletes dining room. Staff will be a colorful and delicious meals on the buffet table, in general, can be summarized in eight words "meat and vegetables, nutrition and delicious". In the restaurant, the nutritionist Li Weijun became the reporter's "food accompaniment". He said: "For fencing athletes, sugar supplementation is very important. So the restaurant every day will prepare more than 10 kinds of staple food for athletes to choose from, staple food varieties, so that can attract athletes to taste more than two kinds of, all of a sudden increased their intake of staple food." Steamed buns, rolls, rice, 4 different fillings of buns, fried cakes, meat cakes, biscuits, Cantonese-style fried noodles, Western-style seafood noodles, fried noodles, taro, a **** 14 kinds of staple food, the reporter was y impressed by the diversity of staple food.
The menu is not heavy in three months
Li Weijun went on to say: "All the dishes are lighter in flavor, less oil and more nutritious is our purpose. Pure meat dishes only 2 to 3 per meal, are based on beef and lamb; fish is two per meal, and basically every month will not be the same. And fruits, yogurt, fresh juices, and soups are our key means of keeping our athletes hydrated."
When the athletes hit the dishes, the waiters standing in front of the buffet table will introduce them to the ingredients and practices of the dishes, dietitian Li Weijun recommends dishes with high nutritional value to the key athletes, and the restaurant's head chef, Zhang Fuming, is on the sidelines carefully noting down the athletes' opinions on the dishes, which can be described as a triad of unity. Zhang Fu Ming said: "Our center attaches great importance to the athletes' diet, in order to allow athletes to adapt to foreign diet, this year, also hired a Western master, now every day there is a Western food, slowly this amount will be added to, after all, the Western food is more nutritious. And in order to ensure that the athletes on the freshness of the food, our recipes are not heavy in three months." Seeing the athletes eat more and more flavorful, Master Zhang has a smile on his face.
The training bureau canteen soup expensive
In the General Administration of Sport Training Bureau of the year-round training, including table tennis, basketball, gymnastics, swimming, volleyball, track and field and other 13 national teams, it can be said that this is the largest source of Olympic gold medals in our country, but also the reporter's "food visit" of the second station.
The reporter walked into the Training Bureau athletes dining room, found a large pot of chilled green bean soup was placed on the table, which has become the most popular athletes "drink". Since entering May, Beijing has been several consecutive days the highest temperature reached more than 30 degrees Celsius, in order to ensure that athletes in the hot weather in the normal training, the restaurant specially prepared for the players chilled green bean soup to heat. As the number of people dining here is more than 400, and many athletes have to drink two or three bowls, so only one meal at noon will have to provide four large pots of green bean soup.
The Directorate General of Training has national teams for 13 sports training here, and different sports have different dietary characteristics. Restaurant buyers and chefs have worked here for a long time has become "experts", we gradually summarized, beef can strengthen the endurance, more suitable for volleyball team; plant-based protein can enhance flexibility and control salt, suitable for the gymnastics team; food produces calories quickly, suitable for the swimming team; seafood can provide explosive power, suitable for track and field team. ......
In addition to daily dishes, the secret recipe of the Training Bureau cafeteria to add nutrition to the athletes is to make soup. Beef, turtle, chicken these are essential, and sometimes shark's fin abalone will also become the material in making soup. Interview, Han told reporters, a small soup pot with the matching herbs and ingredients have a value of more than 2,000 dollars. From 6 o'clock in the morning to start cooking, has been cooking to 5 o'clock in the afternoon, 11 hours to cook a pot of soup, only enough for 8 people to drink, so this can only take care of key athletes.
Master Han said: "In addition to preparing meals for the restaurant on a daily basis, our chefs are often seconded by national teams. At this stage, women's volleyball, table tennis and badminton have all taken our chefs to overseas training."
Link: special software to track athletes' nutrition
The State General Administration of Sports is very concerned about the athletes' diet, they regularly organize the chefs of the training bases of the various projects to participate in the nutritional preparation of meals to learn the class, but also to send experts in-depth to the bases to give athletes on the nutritional class.
In addition, the Sports Nutrition Research Center of the State General Administration of Sport has developed a relatively mature nutritional analysis system software for athletes after more than a year of research and development. Its department head, Dr. Qing Imu, told reporters, "This software is to record, analyze and track athletes' diet and nutrition. It not only helps us understand the eating habits of key athletes, but also allows us to understand the nutritional value of the meals served at the sports base from a microscopic aspect. Through the calculation of dish parameters by this software, we will call a halt or suggest improvements to dishes with excessive fat or substandard nutritional ratios."
It is reported that this nutritional assessment system has been put into use at the beginning of May this year in the State General Administration of Sports Training Bureau, and fencing center and other pilot bases. In the next three months, the pilot bases will carry out recipe entry work, that is, through this set of assessment system to analyze the composition of the dishes, nutritional value, as well as the athletes on the evaluation of the dishes. These data obtained will become an important basis for the Sports Nutrition Research Center to develop quality gold medal recipes. (Choose me oh)