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Trying to save a few quid and wondered if anyone had any decent DIY recipes to equal the main brand powder mixes .
thanks in advance
Bill
1/3 apple or orange juice to 2/3 water. A pinch of salt and a spoon or 2 of sugar, does the job for me.
200ml fruit juice (orange always seems to work best for me), 30g dextrose, 1/4 tsp salt top up to 750ml with water.
That gives you a 6% carb drink with a ratio of 2:1 dextrose/fructose, which is good apparently.
There's an entire thread devoted to this topic over on TriTalk - kona qualifying times have been achieved by folks using 'home-brew'. Very interesting reading and instructions.
I use a 4:1 mixture of maltodextrin and whey protein. It works a treat for me and saves a fortune.
Apple juice / water 1/3 - 2/3 add a pinch of salt (and a spoonful or two of table sugar if yo want extra calories)
Round about isotonic erring on the hypotonic side, good mix of sugars, all the minerals and salts you need.
Tasty cheap and not full of artificial stuff
Ditch the salt, unless you're adding 50/50 sodium and potassium, otherwise Bazz is on the nail.
Why would you want 50 / 50 soduim and potassioum? You body does not use or excrete them in that ratio and apple juice has potassium in it anyway - that along with magnesium IIRC
If you are an Ellie athlete and are running your body on precise amounts of all the various chemicals totally artificially it might make slight difference. If you are an ordinary active person like most of us eating a normal diet all you are wanting to do is get water into your system which the isotonic solutions can help with with maybe a bit of extra salt if you sweat a lot and a bit of sugar for quick energy