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By way of GA News comes a report that someone created a performance enhancing snack for pilots:

Pilot Chews contains huperzine A, vitamin A, vitamin E, ginkgo biloba, choline, ginger root, and caffeine. It comes in four fruity flavors including fruit punch, lime, watermelon, and orange papaya.

This very much reminds me of a Penny-Arcade strip about "Gamer Grub", where Tycho says "I'm perfectly capable of digesting ordinary food". In my humble opinion, the same critique applies to Pilot Chews as well. Granted, my flight bag contains Clif Mojo bars, which are not "ordinary food". But they are not aimed specifically at pilots and do not contain half as much useless junk.

P.S. Mind, I think that a room for innovation in cockpit snacks exists. In particular I wish someone came up with a package that can be opened with one hand and did not shed a cap or tear strip. But that may be too much to ask. Pilot Chews are packaged into a typical peanut bag.

UPDATE: Bob Russo comments:

I've tried it. Its not a snack. Its a supplement to help with pilot fatigue. Works pretty well.

This disarmes the comparison with "ordinary food", but then it pits the product against "5 Hour Energy", the idea of which I consider rather nasty. Perhaps I am afraid of getting addicted. Sometimes it's benign. For example, my primary CFI is a big fan of coffee. I was able to exploit it a couple of times by suggesting that we visit a fly-in or other, where we were sure to find coffee. But sometimes, it's not so wholesome. Not sure in which category Pilot Chews fall.

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