Pumpkin seeds and mungbean curry... leaked details of Cook's recipe for Ashes success amuses Aussies



There will be no junk food for England during the Ashes after a leaked 82-page document revealed their dietary needs in Australia to be more Heston Blumenthal than McDonald’s.



Andy Flower’s famous attention to detail is evident in an extensive dossier outlining England’s requirements at all of the five Ashes venues, with a demand for food that is not only healthy but of almost Michelin-star quality.



Piri-Piri breaded tofu with tomato salsa, pumpkin seed and goji berry breakfast bars and mungbean curry with spinach are among the meals England’s nutrionist Chris Rosimus has requested in a document that was leaked to the Australian media.

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Eye for detail: Andy Flower (right) has meticulously planned all of England's preparations for the Ashes

Food for thought: Alastair Cook and his team will be well fed as they look to retain the urn

While there is nothing damaging in the leak — if anything only an impressive determination to leave no stone unturned is revealed — England will be angry that it has reached the public domain, with Flower always keen to guard England’s privacy jealously. And maybe it will give more ammunition for Shane Warne, who famously lived only on pizzas while he played for Australia, to attack them.



The food order details 194 specialist dishes and drinks to be made available to Alastair Cook and his team but here in Australia, where no opportunity to poke fun at the Poms is spurned, the ridicule has already started.



One blog, Diary of the 17th man, said: ‘What’s the boy Root going to eat out of all this fancy food? I don’t see any soft boiled eggs and toasted soldiers. The Aussie crowd will be giving them a serve in Brisbane. I can hear it now: ‘Who ate all the quinoa, Trotty, who ate all the quinoa.’



Rosimus, the ECB’s performance nutrionist, writes in the document: ‘The quantities must be followed, along with the ingredients listed. For any meat used in sandwich fillings please do not use processed meat, only freshly cooked meats will suffice. All fish must be filleted and contain no bones.

Superfoods: England stars will be eating quinoa (left), pumpkin seeds (right), fennel (below left) and sushi



Sledging: Australians have questions what youngster Joe Root (left) will be able to eat from the list