Make Your Own Gatorade Sports Drink

1 2 cup orange juice.

Make your own gatorade sports drink.

This homemade sport drink has a mild fruit flavor and it is not as sweet as gatorade or other store bought sports drinks. One more reason to make a homemade electrolyte drink. Availability is also an issue. Since gatorade is primarily water electrolytes and sugar with dollops of flavors you can attempt to make your own natural gatorade drink.

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. Water sucrose syrup glucose fructose syrup citric acid natural grape flavor with other natural flavors salt sodium citrate monopotassium phosphate red 40 blue 1. The basic breakdown of a sports drink is easy. It s easy fast and a lot healthier.

Pour 1 cup of the water into a large pot. Place pot over low heat and whisk until ingredients have dissolved. Gatorade is costlier than most sports drinks. Making your own electrolyte drink.

1 4 cup granulated sugar. To make a homemade electrolyte drink you start with some healthy liquid base. Not only do they have a lot of questionable ingredients but making your own is easy fast and a lot healthier. 1 tbsp lemon juice.

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. Neon colored sports drinks may make you nostalgic for your childhood growing up on a soccer field or basketball court. But by now you ve learned that sugar and artificial coloring isn t exactly the he. There was something about the neon color overly sweet artificial flavor of the healthy drinks that put me off.

1 4 tsp kosher salt. Gatorade claims that this is the optimal level to enhance the water being absorbed into your body. Many stores run out of the bestselling flavors and you are left with the less desirable ones to choose from. Add honey salt calcium magnesium powder and cayenne.

Adapted from daily garnish. I didn t grow up drinking gatorade powerade or other sports drinks. You see athletes chugging down bottles of the neon colored liquid in every ad and real life surely they do something and they do. Regular sports drinks contain ingredients such as.

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.