N°66 - Marché / Nutrition sportive Ingredients supporting Research on the ingredients that support post-workout recovery is more and more dynamic. At the beginning of this year, an American team specializing in sports nutrition made an overview of the evidence regarding the effectiveness of nearly thirty of these ingredients. 014 Muscle recovery is essential for 2h before and 2h after exercise) considerably athletes. This is mostly becauseblunted creatine kinase elevation caused by muscle damage caused by intense30-minute exercise at 80% VO2max versus exercise may cause discomfort (muscle painplacebo in adults who engage in daily mode- and soreness) and, above all, it may affect therate physical activity. Other similar results were performance and quality of training during theobtained in another study showing that the following days. The athletes and active peopleconsumption of blackcurrant juice (473ml twice who train or compete almost without interrup-a day for 8 days) four days prior to eccentric tion need to accelerate the recovery processsquat exercise reduced circulating CK levels at between each session. Over the past years,both 48 h and 96 h after exercise as compared the number of studies exploring the benefi tsto placebo. of a wide range of ingredients derived from plants, fruit, vitamin or amino acid supplements• Sour cherry juice has increased. Overview of some post-wor-Sour cherries are rich in anthocyanins, fl avo- kout recovery ingredients that have proven theirnoids and chlorogenic acids. They have anti- benefi ts and of the ingredients that promiseinfl ammatory and anti-oxidative effects when further developments. consumed at high doses. Chronic consump- tion of sour cherry juice would effectively Fruits and fruit-derived products reduce post-exercise symptoms. 12 studies have tested sour cherry in the following forms: • Blackcurrant concentrate (60 ml/day), juice (500 ml/day) or Blackcurrant is rich in anthocyanins, naturalpowder (480g/day) in various subjects under- pigments with strong anti-oxidative and anti-going endurance and resistance exercises. infl ammatory properties. Preliminary data sug-They showed a decrease in post-exercise gests that the consumption of blackcurrantmuscle pain after 7 to 8 days of supplemen- extracts may reduce the indirect markers oftation and, 48 hours later, better recovery of muscle damage (creatine kinase (CK), lactatethe muscle strength and a decrease in the dehydrogenase). A study of 2009 indicatesbiomarkers of muscle damage and infl amma- that blackcurrant supplementation (/home/webapps/asp_fr/data/asp/publications/edition-bgm-saas/a66---webpublication---hd-ok 48g total,tion. Finally, a metabolomic study confi rms that ■ / Janvier - Février - Mars 2019 / N°66 / L’Actualité des Ingrédients Fonctionnels & Santé