Overview
- Nutritionist Jenny Tschiesche says combining rice with beans supplies complementary amino acids to make a complete protein.
- She notes bean fibre and resistant starch slow the uptake of rice carbohydrates, with beans adding folate, iron, magnesium, potassium, zinc and B vitamins.
- When trials are failed, campmates rely on basic rations of plain white rice and rehydrated haricot or navy-style beans.
- Ant and Dec demonstrated the pre-packaged daily portions on TikTok, which reports estimate total roughly up to 800 calories.
- Ration-only evenings have occurred this series, including during the Win City/Doomsville split, as the show heads toward a Friday double elimination and a Sunday, December 7 finale on ITV1 and ITVX.