Make Your Own Gatorade Sports Drink

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Make your own gatorade sports drink.

Since gatorade is primarily water electrolytes and sugar with dollops of flavors you can attempt to make your own natural gatorade drink. So before you stop by the store for a gatorade on the way to the game like i ve done a trillion times try making your own. One more reason to make a homemade electrolyte drink. If you prefer a sweeter drink you may adjust the sweetness to taste after combining all of the ingredients by gradually stirring in additional fruit juice up to 1 cup and or honey up to 1 tablespoon until the flavor.

Add honey salt calcium magnesium powder and cayenne. It s easy fast and a lot healthier. You see athletes chugging down bottles of the neon colored liquid in every ad and real life surely they do something and they do. Place pot over low heat and whisk until ingredients have dissolved.

Pour 1 cup of the water into a large pot. Gatorade is costlier than most sports drinks. Not only do they have a lot of questionable ingredients but making your own is easy fast and a lot healthier. Gatorade claims that this is the optimal level to enhance the water being absorbed into your body.

Water sucrose syrup glucose fructose syrup citric acid natural grape flavor with other natural flavors salt sodium citrate monopotassium phosphate red 40 blue 1. 14g sugar 110mg sodium 30mg potassium the 14 grams of sugar makes sure that the total make up of the liquid is 6 carbohydrates. There was something about the neon color overly sweet artificial flavor of the healthy drinks that put me off. 1 4 cup granulated sugar.

Adapted from daily garnish. 1 4 tsp kosher salt. But by now you ve learned that sugar and artificial coloring isn t exactly the he. Regular sports drinks contain ingredients such as.

Neon colored sports drinks may make you nostalgic for your childhood growing up on a soccer field or basketball court. 1 tbsp lemon juice. Make your own electrolyte energy drink gatorade powerade electrolyte pumped up sports drinks they re good for you right. In fact gatorade puts all the information you need on its nutrition label so let s look at that.

The basic breakdown of a sports drink is easy. I didn t grow up drinking gatorade powerade or other sports drinks. To make a homemade electrolyte drink you start with some healthy liquid base. Making your own electrolyte drink.

This homemade sport drink has a mild fruit flavor and it is not as sweet as gatorade or other store bought sports drinks.