I’m not eating and I need to keep my electrolytes up. I’ve been trying different drinks and there pretty much all awful. The best I’ve had so far is pineapple coconut water. The worst is Powerade Zero fruit punch.
It seems like whatever stuff they put in there in these drinks is the problem because many of them have this horrible bitter taste they try to hide with flavoring.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
And yes, I know Brawndo has electrolytes. Very droll.
I am going to second making your own. Most electrolyte solutions are only sodium chloride, potassium chloride and sugar.
Morton’s makes a thing that is literally this without the sugar. It’s called “lite salt”. https://www.mortonsalt.com/article/morton-lite-salt-mixture-nutritional-facts/
Any “lite salt” should do the trick. You will also need a multivitamin/multimineral as well but if you are just looking for an “electrolyte” replacement drink… It’s just lite salt, water and sugar. If you want to get fancy you can add magnesium and calcium.
Is it salty? Yes. It’s salt. Electrolytes are salts.
How do I make it not salty? Add sugar.
Why are the things like propel bitter? Fake sugar + salt tastes bitter to some people. Most Gatorade/propel blends also need to be low cal so they use fake sugars. Gatorade originally had like 60grams of sugar in a bottle. That doesn’t sell well anymore. You, however can go nuts and use as much sugar as you like.
Is there electrolytes that don’t taste salty? No. They are salt.
What other options do I have? Pills. But if you aren’t eating you might not absorb them well.
Edit: after reading some other posts I am going to add the following.
Gatorade is potassium and sodium salt + sugars, artificial sweetener and flavors. You can check the nutritional facts. It only provides sodium and potassium… No calcium or magnesium. Gatorade is literally “lite salt” plus sugar, flavorings, artificial sugar and water.
Monk fruit, stevia and the like all have bitter aftertastes.
Personally my favorite artificial sweetener is erythritol. Incidentally it is the only artificial sweetener that doesn’t cause an insulin response. Monster zero energy drinks are sweetened with it for a flavor profile.
Don’t forget magnesium! I like Natural Calm, which becomes magnesium citrate when mixed with water. Avoid magnesium oxide, which is typically used as a laxative.
Mix it all with your preferred flavoring, such as Mio drops. Keto forums call this ketoade/ketorade.
Side note: different sweeteners are radically different. Stevia, sucralose, saccharine, aspartame, erythritol, etc all have different properties. Some have weird flavors, feels, or gastro effects, and affect each person differently. Saccharine is often called bitter; stevia is often described as metallic; erythritol has a cooling mint-like feeling.
Careful with that erythritol…
Brawndo of course.
I have myself cucumber water everyday, it’s fantastic but I don’t know if it will help you specifically : blend cucumbah in some wotah, add enough wotah that it becomes nicely fluid, deep jungle green, then filter it. Or don’t, if you want fibah. Pinch of salt, squeeze of lemon, good to go.
I’m on a keto diet, and I NEED the electrolytes. I found this recipe and it’s been helping me so far. https://www.ketofitnessclub.com/blogs/drinks/electrolyte-drink
I’d be interested in anyone’s takes on that recipe, hopefully I’m not poisoning my liver or something…
Edit: I just read your previous post, so you probably shouldn’t try this recipe as it uses apple cider vinegar which I believe would aggravate your ulcer.
You’re getting a little sugar from the fruit juice.
Vinegars always been difficult for me to drink. But it looks super interesting do you like it?
Weird that I don’t seem to get notifications for comment replies using Sync, so sorry for the delayed response.
I don’t enjoy drinking the apple cider vinegar, HOWEVER, it has has a huge positive impact on me in combination with keto. It goes down hard, but extremely worth it for me!
What impact does it have with keto?
Honestly, not a drink: the Pedialyte freezer pops.
Someone recommended that to me before. I’m not a huge fan of popsicles, but I may have to resort to those. Thanks.
Get the drinks then. They also have powder to mix with water. Fruit punch, berry blast, and orange are my and my kids favorites.
Pocari Sweat. It’s a Japanese drink but you can find it in the US. Awesome flavor and it should have a good balance but check it out.
I’ve seen that in stores. Admittedly, the name always turned me off. I’ll check it out. Thanks!
I stick to electrolyte water the most. I know sugar can help with absorbing electrolytes but I don’t like sugar much.
I like the BodyArmor water the best, followed by probably Smart Water and Essentia. They’re all fairly similar; I’m splitting hairs with taste. I’ll buy whatever is the cheapest or on a sale.
Before work every day, I go to the Dollar Tree next door to buy drinks for the day. I’ve been buying the various random flavored waters, and whatever other drinks are sugar and caffeine free. Found this stuff called Reward, in a square bottle talking about electrolytes and whatnot, back of the bottle making it seem like they’re claiming to be some knock-off Pedialyte. They claim to have a bunch of flavors, but I’ve only ever seen strawberry kiwi. Tastes a lot better than I expected. Kinda over-sweetened, if anything.
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Sneaky caffeine content pisses me off. Bought a big thing of BCAAs at the store and didn’t realize until trying some it’s got caffeine in it.
I struggle with anxiety and caffeine is something I need to precisely control in order to keep from freezing up at work.
Pocari sweat
Its not the best tasting electrolyte drink sorry, but it helps me when i need electrolyte and i enjoy it compared to gatorade
PS: it taste citrusy(if thats a word) and not so sweet compared to gatorade
Could take a supplement. Most are useless but some do serve a use in the right circumstances. I take magnesium for leg cramps for example. Could do a mix of Calcium, magnesium, potassium, with just water. Throw to the back of the throat, no taste at all. A multi vitamin might do the trick too, like one-a- day. But you will need to research them.
One potential issue with this solution is most suppliments suggest being taken with a meal. If you are able, milk is an electrolyte source as qell, so that might serve the meal requirement.
Good luck, I’ve had ulcers most of my life, surgery 3 times for them, they suck, a lot
There’s this like knockoff Pedialyte brand called electrolit I really like some of the lighter flavors of. Coconut, think there’s a cucumber lime etc. There’s a cucumber lime Gatorade that seems to very im availability depending on where you live that I really like too.
Hammer Fizz is my go-to. Taste is great, very low sugar, potassium sodium and magnesium. The caffeinated cola flavor is my favorite.
Never even seen that one.
Powerade is like the discount Gatorade.
When I was abroad, my favorite was BodyArmor
BlackoutMixed Berry (apparently they’re discontinued).BodyArmor sports drinks.
