Importance of Alce Nero

Our latest blog focuses on how Alce Nero supports our riders and helps them achieve their goals.

For professional cyclists, nutrition plays a crucial role in supporting race-winning performances, as well as the overall health and well-being of the rider. Whilst in professional cycling, there is a big focus on aspects of a rider’s diet like the number of grams of carbohydrates they consume on the bike, ultimately, one of the single most important factors in an athlete’s diet is the food that they eat.

Here at Soudal Quick Step Pro Cycling Team, this is where our nutrition partner Alce Nero plays a key role in supporting our riders’ performance.

Our chefs are pivotal in the delivery of our nutrition strategy, and being a part of the travelling circus that is professional cycling comes with some significant challenges. Namely, working in a small mobile kitchen that moves hundreds of kilometres every 24 hours as the races travel and working against time pressure to deliver world-class meals to our riders to support their performance.

Sourcing high-quality ingredients when you arrive in a new town is a real challenge and to help deal with this problem our nutrition team is fortunate to work with Alce Nero. Through providing the team with high-quality ingredients, we can meet the riders’ individual nutrition goals to help fuel race winning performances and provide them with meals that help support their morale and wellbeing through one of the most physically demanding sports on the planet.

Photo credit: ©Wout Beel