Definitely a food holder, there are Maurten gels in it:
Looks like something custom-built to fit under that rail, maybe?
Being a food holder does that get around the new German hydration rules?
No, the rules still apply.
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That’s really interesting. Why would she prefer that than putting them all in a gel flask? She has to deal with opening them and then the trash too.
Putting Maurten in a bottle won’t really work. The consistency is different from a normal gel.
No (and it’s not “German hydration rules” it’s World Tri Rules and expected implementation world wide wef 25th May).
Neither item extends 250mm to the rear of the lowest point of the arm rests and (my estimate) the top of the filler cap is <200mm above that datum point.
If the food holder was replaced by a bottle cage it would fall foul of the rules, as interpreted (reference bottle of 750ml).
When measured from the lowest edge of the arm support . . . all attached objects on the handlebars or the clip-ons (bottles, holders, containers, etc.) must be within an area with the following dimensions:
o a maximum of 250 mm in the direction of the saddle and
o a maximum of 200 mm in height [comment - this is being interpreted as ‘above’ the datum point rather than “in height”]
For this race I carried all my nutrition as they were using another brand at the aid stations. Maurten gels are a bit too thick texture to put into a bottle and squeeze out, The carry box was for the gels, and the Xlab pouch was for the used gel wrappers + backup gels incase I lost any.
And as Ajax said above it was measured all to be within the new rules.
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Thanks for the reply! It pays to have gear nerds around 
Even bigger one here
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There’s also this guy here:
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That one has the standard nipple like top. The ones I linked are just a big hole.* Liquid would be terrible in the ones I linked but thick gels like Maurten are perfect.
*Yes that felt weird typing.
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