The effect of almond consumption on endurance performance among badminton player/ Emmanuel Sumok Esa

For many centuries people aspect almond was go to healthy snack and almond not typically used as performance enhancer. A recent study has showing that almond has effect to sport performance. Almond are a good source of vitamin and mineral which is vitamin E some vitamin B, magnesium and manganese. Almond also containing healthy fats and protein. Apart from that, almond was contain high amino acid arginine which was precursor to nitric acid. The combination of these nutrients was showed almond have a strong potential benefit for athlete. This experimental study was to determine the effectof almond consumption to badminton athlete. There was 30 badminton player that participated in this study. They were divided into two group which were control(n=15), experiment(n=15). The experiment group was consume 75 grams of almond per day in 4 week and 85 grams of ccookies for control group.The result shows that, there was no significant different between both subject, but the mean show that experiment group (12.40%) has higher significant than control group(l 1.11%). In conclusion, almond can contribute in sport endurance.