Veloforte Mixed Natural Energy Chews Review: The Best Energy Chews for Running?
Holly Woodford - WomensSportsStore.com Editor
If you’ve ever grabbed your energy chews for running mid-effort and been hit with a waxy, chemical-tasting cube that your stomach immediately regretted — you’ll understand why the Veloforte Mixed Natural Energy Chews feel like a genuine step forward in the production of sports nutrition. Five flavours, real fruit, no gums, no gun, and they actually taste like food.
Taste & Texture
With energy chews for running, if the texture is wrong, nothing else matters. These are soft, genuinely soft, small cubes that go down without the jaw effort or sticky, waxy residue that makes so many chews on the market such a chore to eat mid-stride. Easy to eat two squares every 20 minutes without breaking your breathing or your pace.
The flavours are where Veloforte really earns its reputation. These taste like actual food. The Mela (apple & cinnamon) is almost dangerously good — apple crumble, not lab-created apple flavouring. Fresco (lemon & cool mint) is bright and refreshing, perfect for the mid-run slog when everything feels hard. Citro (citrus & ginger) has a pleasant warmth. Each flavour is distinct enough that cycling through them across a long run genuinely keeps things interesting with little to no taste fatigue and no dreading the next one!
The mixed pack format is smart for exactly this reason. Different flavours for different points in your run means you can plan your fuelling with intention rather than grimacing through the same thing for four hours. It’s the kind of product you actually look forward to eating, which in endurance sport is rarer than it should be.
Nutrition Profile
Each pack delivers up to 44g of natural dual-source carbohydrates (glucose and fructose from real fruit juice) and 145mg of electrolytes (sodium and potassium) giving a solid hit for endurance fuelling. The two-chews-every-20-minutes protocol is easy to execute on the move, giving you a structured carb delivery system without overthinking it mid-run.
The Amaro chew (sour cherry & guarana) also contains 75mg natural caffeine which is a meaningful dose for the later miles, and unlike most caffeinated energy chews, it doesn’t taste bitter or chemically. The ingredients list is clean throughout: real fruit, no artificial additives, no gums, no waxes.
Performance
These sat gently in my stomach with no bloating, no sloshing, no digestive issues even deep into a long run. For female runners, especially those navigating hormonal shifts that affect gut sensitivity, that’s not a small thing. Gut issues are one of the biggest performance risks in endurance sport, and natural energy chews that don’t cause problems are worth trying.
The pack is genuinely vest-friendly compact, easy to store in a pocket, quick to open on the move. The range of flavours across one mixed pack also means you can use different chews strategically: lighter flavours early on, the caffeine hit (Amaro) in the back half of a long run or race when you need a nudge.
The caffeine chew deserves a special mention. Caffeinated sports products have a reputation for bitterness this one doesn’t deliver that. It still tastes like something you’d want to eat, which puts it in a very small club of caffeinated running nutrition that doesn’t make you wince.
Value
Veloforte sits at a slight premium compared to mainstream energy chews for running, but in this case you can taste where the money went. Real fruit ingredients, a clean formulation, a gut-friendly product that performs under pressure, and a flavour experience that means you’ll actually use it consistently which is ultimately what makes sports nutrition worth investing in.
At £13.75 for a mixed pack of 5, it’s not cheap. But compared to synthetic alternatives that leave you feeling grim mid-run, the value case is clear.
Recommend
These are a brilliant choice of energy chews for running if you are:
- Training for or racing events of an hour or more
- Someone who has struggled with the taste, texture or gut impact of standard energy chews or gels
- An athlete who wants to use caffeine strategically without the bitter hit
- A woman looking for a natural, clean-ingredient sports nutrition option that actually works
If you prefer a single-flavour pack, Veloforte’s individual chew flavours are available separately but the mixed format is where the real value lies for long runs and race day.
Final Verdict
Veloforte’s Mixed Natural Energy Chews are among the best energy chews for running we’ve tested: soft enough to eat without breaking your stride, tasty enough that you actually look forward to them, gentle on the gut, and smart in their mixed format for solving the taste fatigue problem that makes long runs a slog to fuel. The caffeine chew alone is one of the best we’ve tried. Real food fuel that works — that’s the deal, and it delivers.
