Home Made Sports Drink Recipe

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I think there might be a few more if you want to search around with different terms, but this one came up on the first try. 

I've been thinking about giving this a try too. Come back and post on your results and let us know how it turns out. 

I tried this recipe and it was great.  Tasted like a sports drink, and cost about 35 cents for two quarts.  Wanted to get some Maltodextrin, but Whole Foods did not have it.

1/2 cup sugar

3/8 t salt

1/8 t Morton Lite Salt

1 Package lemonade Koolade.

Mixed up the powder.  You end up with a mixture that is 50 calories per Tablespoon.  Full strength would be 1 T per 8 oz of water.  Thus you get 8 servings from this one batch.  I used 24 oz bike water bottles and put in 2 T per bottle.  The liquid got very warm on my bike ride, but it still tasted good.

 whats the point of having both reg. and lite salt?

also what packaging of koolaid do you use?

The lite salt is about 50% Potasium.  Regular salt is pure sodium.  Most sports drinks have both sodium and potasium in for electrolyte replacement.

For the Koolade, it is just the regular unsweetened Koolade.