Water, sucrose syrup, high fructose corn syrup, citric acid, natural lemon and lime flavors with other natural flavors, salt, sodium citrate, monopotassium phosphate, glycerol ester of wood rosin, yellow number 5.
This is the list of ingredients on a fairly famous brand of sports drink. And just as cellulite is a fancy term for fat, electrolytes is a fancy term for salt and sports drink is a fancy term for sugar water. I don't know what "other natural flavors," sodium citrate", monopotassium phosphate or glycerol ester of wood rosin" are, and I personally produce yellow number 5 (some people call it number 1), so I'm not sure why I'm spending $1.75 per 20 ounce bottle for something I can make myself for about twenty five cents in my kitchen.
Which is what I've decided to do. High fructose corn syrup is getting a bad rap lately. I don't know if it should or not, but I've heard that the glycemic index of something like honey or agave sweetener is lower and thus somehow better. Whatever, simple carbohydrates=sugar.
So my recipe is going to be three tablespoons of agave or honey (eek!! refined sugar=the devil!), a table spoon of lime juice and a pinch of salt per twenty ounces of water. I don't have monopotassium phosphate and could probably spend two minutes figuring out how to substitute what is essentially what you get in bananas, but who has time? I'll just eat a banana.
Then I will freeze the bottles and by the time I finish work and get through the first hour of my workout, when I usually start drinking, it should be perfect.
I will report back on this grand experiment
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