Author Archives: Nanu Performance
The Quest
- Dec
- 13
- Posted by Nanu Performance
- Posted in Blog, Home
Quest. The act of seeking. It’s a pursuit, a search. Any quest worth the effort usually comes with hard work, struggle, failure, pain and hope. Hope for success. In most cases success means self fulfillment. Enter stage left on the stage of life…Sean Hernon, or as our Irish friends call him, Seán Ó hIarnáin. And, […]
Carrageenan, Just Saying!
- Nov
- 29
- Posted by Nanu Performance
- Posted in Blog, Home
It will take about 10 seconds to get passed our brief commercial to get to the real reason for this blog…Carrageenan! When we began developing our sports & fitness brand, Nanu™, we committed ourselves to whole food ingredients. Our commitment was to deliver nutrition with whole food so it comes holding hands with the natural […]
Nanu Bars are a gluten free hit!
- May
- 27
- Posted by Nanu Performance
- Posted in Blog, Home

KIR Natural Foods exhibited at the Philly Gluten Free Expo this weekend (5/21/16). It was a first time event for them and us. We were pleasantly surprised when over 2,200 people showed up on a rainy Saturday to learn more about gluten free living and to experience GF products. There was an unending stream of […]
Let the buyer beware
- Mar
- 24
- Posted by Nanu Performance
- Posted in Blog, Home
Read this and you will want to do more than read the label before you buy. Todd Rundstad reported this story in New Hope 360. This is an excerpt. In 2014, the Supreme Court ruled 8-0 that POM could sue Coke over its Minute Maid Enhanced Pomegranate Blueberry drink, because the 59-ounce container contained all […]
New on Nanu!
- Jan
- 18
- Posted by Nanu Performance
- Posted in Blog
KIR Natural Foods believes there are natural foods, not lab creations with artificial formulations, that can bring extraordinary health benefits and improve your performance significantly. That is why we created Nanu, performance nutrition developed by athletes. Plant-based, gluten-free whole food for energy and recovery. And that belief is why we now offer NatureBuilt™ Chlorella and […]
Nothing artificial
- Jan
- 05
- Posted by Nanu Performance
- Posted in Blog
Care about what you put into your body? The numbers say you do! We were looking at some recent polls on ingredient transparency in the food industry, and it was shocking (or comforting!) to see that 71% of consumers avoid artificial flavors and 62% avoid artificial colors1. Those are big numbers! We’re not sure if […]
Rebekah did it! 3 hours 51 minutes!
- Oct
- 12
- Posted by Nanu Performance
- Posted in Blog
Six months ago Rebekah Werner set out on a journey to accomplish 2 goals: break 4 hours in the Chicago Marathon, and raise money for the fight against Lupus, a disease that affects millions of women, including her mother in law. In this endeavor, Rebekah teamed up with The Lupus Society of Illinois, and with […]
Help defeat Lupus
- Oct
- 07
- Posted by Nanu Performance
- Posted in Blog
Run for Maureen – Help defeat Lupus The Chicago marathon is fast approaching. Rebekah Werner has been training so she can bring attention to the battle to defeat Lupus. Rebekah’s mother-in-law (my wife) has struggled with lupus since it first revealed itself in 1989 and Rebbie has decided to do something to help. https://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/RebekahWerner/2015chicagomarathon Lupus […]
Chi Running Stuff
- Apr
- 29
- Posted by Nanu Performance
- Posted in Blog

Health is more than nutrition. It is also physical fitness, which comes from commitment, effort and proper technique. Take a look at some friends of ours who have developed a revolutionary approach to running that helps avoid injury and also tunes you into your body when you are running. Check out Chi Running It’s a […]
Why does Nanu follow you?
- Apr
- 17
- Posted by Nanu Performance
- Posted in Blog, Home

Let me tell you a brief story. One day a couple of guys who are committed to endurance competition (Ironman and cycling) decided they weren’t happy with existing, so-called convenience, fuels available to athletes. Sure, they were mostly inexpensive, but they also contained weird lab-developed stuff, like soy lecithin, disodium dihydrogen pyrophosphate, potassium carbonate, carragene, […]