Make Your Own Gatorade Sports Drink

One more reason to make a homemade electrolyte drink.

Make your own gatorade sports drink.

Many stores run out of the bestselling flavors and you are left with the less desirable ones to choose from. Making your own electrolyte drink. 1 tbsp lemon juice. In fact gatorade puts all the information you need on its nutrition label so let s look at that.

14g sugar 110mg sodium 30mg potassium the 14 grams of sugar makes sure that the total make up of the liquid is 6 carbohydrates. 1 4 tsp kosher salt. Gatorade is costlier than most sports drinks. Add honey salt calcium magnesium powder and cayenne.

Place pot over low heat and whisk until ingredients have dissolved. 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. Adapted from daily garnish. Pour 1 cup of the water into a large pot.

1 2 cup orange juice. Water sucrose syrup glucose fructose syrup citric acid natural grape flavor with other natural flavors salt sodium citrate monopotassium phosphate red 40 blue 1. Not only do they have a lot of questionable ingredients but making your own is easy fast and a lot healthier. It s easy fast and a lot healthier.

Since gatorade is primarily water electrolytes and sugar with dollops of flavors you can attempt to make your own natural gatorade drink. The basic breakdown of a sports drink is easy. 1 4 cup granulated sugar. Neon colored sports drinks may make you nostalgic for your childhood growing up on a soccer field or basketball court.

This homemade sport drink has a mild fruit flavor and it is not as sweet as gatorade or other store bought sports drinks. Availability is also an issue. Gatorade claims that this is the optimal level to enhance the water being absorbed into your body. Make your own electrolyte energy drink gatorade powerade electrolyte pumped up sports drinks they re good for you right.

There was something about the neon color overly sweet artificial flavor of the healthy drinks that put me off. 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. But by now you ve learned that sugar and artificial coloring isn t exactly the he. The good thing is making your own homemade electrolyte drink or homemade sports drink is incredibly easy and then you know exactly what you re putting into your body.

Regular sports drinks contain ingredients such as.