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Adventure Food

22 single-serving meals from a Dutch expedition-food brand - and, on a reseller-estimated price, one of the cheapest ways to eat on the trail we track.

#2 of 13priced brands by cost per 1,000 kcal (~$14.41 on average) - but every Adventure Food price is estimated from a Dutch reseller (outdoor-food.nl) and converted to USD, not the brand's own figure.

9 of 22meals are tagged vegetarian in our data (2 of them vegan); the tags follow Adventure Food's own meat / fish / vegetarian menu, so the meat dishes - Chili con Carne, Sate Babi - are correctly left untagged.

22meals in our DB #7 of 14 brands by size
119.1avg cal/oz (420 kcal/100g) #9 of 14
32.3avg protein g/1,000kcal #12 of 14
~$14.41avg cost/1,000kcal #2 cheapest of 13 priced

~ marks a same-day currency conversion. Adventure Food lists its prices in EUR, so every USD figure shown for its own meals is a converted estimate, not a brand-published dollar price - check the retailer for the current price.

Brand profile

Adventure Food B.V. was founded in Utrecht, Netherlands, in 1995, and taken over in 2003 by Dutch mountaineer Hans van der Meulen - the first Dutch climber to summit Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen (2002) and leader of the first Dutch expedition to the North Pole (1997). Its meals are still made in the Netherlands.
France's NutriDry Group acquired the company in November 2022 from Marivo B.V.; at the time of the sale it held around 90% market share in the Netherlands and 10% in the UK, per the law firm that advised on the deal.

Sources: AKD, NutriDry-Adventure Food acquisition · adventurefood.com/en/company.html · Joint Forces News gear review, Jul 2023 · Chili con Carne ingredients, adventurefood.com · Sate Babi ingredients, adventurefood.com

Who Adventure Food suits - and who should look elsewhere

Built from the 284-meal database, not opinion - the same facts anyone can check in the table below.

Good fit if…

You don't want to split a pouch or do per-serving math: every one of Adventure Food's 22 meals in our database is a single-serving pouch, with servings known on all 22 - unlike Peak Refuel's all-2-serving lineup or Trailtopia's mixed 1- and 2-serving catalogue.
You eat vegan: 2 of 22 meals are tagged vegan - Tropical Rice Dessert and Quinoa a la Mexicana - and both check out against Adventure Food's own ingredient panel, with no dairy, egg, or meat in either.

Look elsewhere if…

You want an exact, brand-published price: Adventure Food publishes none of its own - its site is a catalogue with a shop-finder, no online store - so every price here is estimated from a single reseller (outdoor-food.nl) and converted from EUR to USD. It is a fair ballpark, not a figure to budget to the cent, and (unlike Radix Nutrition, the one brand we track with no usable price at all) it is a reseller's number, not the brand's own.
You filter on gluten-free or dairy-free: Adventure Food publishes no such tags in our data for any of its 22 meals - only vegetarian (9) and vegan (2) - so for any other dietary need you're reading each ingredient label by hand.
You have a milk or gluten allergy: milk appears in 16 of 22 meals and gluten in 11 - this is not an allergen-light lineup, check every label before you buy.

Our pick

Scrambled Eggs is the clear pick on the numbers: Adventure Food's densest meal at 130.2 cal/oz (rank 85 of 284 meals in our database) and its highest-protein meal at 55.3 g of protein per 1,000 kcal, with 24.9 g of protein in a 450-calorie breakfast - at an estimated ~$15.13/1,000 kcal (a reseller price converted to USD, not Adventure Food's own figure).

Source: Scrambled Eggs on adventurefood.com

Every Adventure Food meal in our database

22 meals, sorted by calorie density by default - click a column header (or focus it and press Enter) to re-sort.


Scrambled Eggs	130459 kcal/100g	450	24.9	~15.13	3.5 oz98 g	Vegetarian
Mince Beef Hotpot	127448 kcal/100g	600	19	~13.25	4.7 oz134 g	-
Tropical Rice Dessert	127448 kcal/100g	300	3.4	~26.50	2.4 oz67 g	VeganVegetarian
Gulyás	126444 kcal/100g	600	20	~13.25	4.8 oz135 g	-
Knusper-Müsli	125441 kcal/100g	600	13.3	~11.35	4.8 oz136 g	-
Vegetable Hotpot	123435 kcal/100g	600	19	~13.25	4.9 oz138 g	Vegetarian
Mousse au Chocolat	123435 kcal/100g	300	8.3	~20.80	2.4 oz69 g	-
Cashew Nasi	122429 kcal/100g	600	18.5	~13.25	4.9 oz140 g	Vegetarian
Pasta alle Noci	119420 kcal/100g	600	16.6	~13.25	5.0 oz143 g	Vegetarian
Expedition Breakfast	119420 kcal/100g	600	19.7	~10.40	5.0 oz143 g	-
Pasta Carbonara	119420 kcal/100g	600	24	~13.25	5.0 oz143 g	-
Sate Babi	118417 kcal/100g	600	18.1	~13.25	5.1 oz144 g	-
Bobotie	118417 kcal/100g	600	17.3	~13.25	5.1 oz144 g	-
Pasta ai Funghi	118417 kcal/100g	600	22.9	~13.25	5.1 oz144 g	Vegetarian
Vanilla Dessert	117411 kcal/100g	300	12.2	~20.80	2.6 oz73 g	-
Pasta al Salmone	115405 kcal/100g	600	24.1	~13.25	5.2 oz148 g	-
Curry Fruit Rice	114403 kcal/100g	600	14.6	~13.25	5.3 oz149 g	Vegetarian
Chili con Carne	113400 kcal/100g	600	22.2	~13.25	5.3 oz150 g	-
Quinoa a la Mexicana	113400 kcal/100g	600	16.1	~13.25	5.3 oz150 g	VeganVegetarian
Chicken Curry	113397 kcal/100g	600	20.2	~13.25	5.3 oz151 g	-
Pasta Bolognese	113397 kcal/100g	600	22.6	~13.25	5.3 oz151 g	-
Veggie Couscous	109385 kcal/100g	600	17.2	~13.25	5.5 oz156 g	Vegetarian

Where the data says Adventure Food is strong - and weak

Computed from all 284 meals in our database, not opinion.

Strong

Made in the Netherlands by a company founded in 1995 and taken over in 2003 by Dutch mountaineer Hans van der Meulen - the first Dutch climber to summit Everest without supplemental oxygen (2002) and leader of the first Dutch expedition to the North Pole (1997).
One of the cheapest brands we track: at an estimated ~$14.41 per 1,000 kcal, Adventure Food is #2-cheapest of the 13 priced brands, behind only Tent Meals - though every price is a reseller estimate (outdoor-food.nl, EUR converted to USD), not the brand's own.
Its diet tags follow the brand's own meat / fish / vegetarian menu: 9 of 22 meals are vegetarian, and the 2 vegan ones - Tropical Rice Dessert and Quinoa a la Mexicana - hold up against Adventure Food's own ingredient panel, with no dairy, egg, or meat in either.
Every one of the 22 meals in our database is a single-serving pouch, with servings known on all 22 - no splitting or per-serving math needed.
A mid-sized catalogue: 22 meals ranks #7 of 14 brands by size - bigger than 7 other brands we track, from Peak Refuel (20) down to Tent Meals (5), though well behind Mountain House's 41.

Weak

No brand-published price: Adventure Food lists no price on its own site, so every figure here is estimated from a single reseller (outdoor-food.nl) and FX-converted from EUR - fine for a ballpark cost comparison, but not the brand's MSRP and not exact to the cent.
Thin diet-filter data beyond vegetarian: 9 of 22 meals are tagged vegetarian and just 2 vegan, with nothing tagged gluten-free or dairy-free in our data - if you filter on those, you're reading labels by hand.
Mid-to-low on both headline metrics: 119.1 cal/oz average density ranks #9 of 14 brands, and 32.3 g protein per 1,000 kcal ranks #12 of 14. Even its own densest meal, Scrambled Eggs at 130.2 cal/oz, beats only one of the other 13 brands' own ceiling (Good To-Go, 125.5 cal/oz) - every other brand's densest meal is denser than Adventure Food's.
Publishes zero snack-type meals in our data: 2 breakfast, 17 main, 3 dessert, and nothing tagged snack.

What people say

Independent reviews of Adventure Food, quoted briefly with a link to the full source. We have not tested these meals ourselves - this is what other outlets report.

“All were tasty, albeit lacking any kick”
Joint Forces News (Bob Morrison) - gear review, 9 Jul 2023, testing three Adventure Food mains including Bobotie and Chicken Curry

“full of vanilla flavour but a bit lacking in texture”
Joint Forces News (Bob Morrison) - same review, on the Vanilla Dessert

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