Homemade Sports Drink
Attention endurance athletes: try making your own sports drink at home to save money! This recipe offers close to the same nutritional profile of commercial sports drinks (e.g. Gatorade), offering 50-70 calories per 8 ounces (250 mL) with about 110 milligrams of sodium, but at a much lower cost. Get creative and try mixing different blends of juices (such as cranberry and lemonade) instead of orange juice to mix up the flavour options.
Ingredients:
| Sugar | ¼ cup | 50 g |
| Salt | ¼ tsp | 1 mL |
| Hot water | ¼ cup | 60 mL |
| Orange juice (not from concentrate) | ¼ cup | 60 mL |
| Lemon juice | 2 Tbsp | 30 mL |
| Cold water | 3.5 cups | 875 mL |
Directions:
- In the bottom of a pitcher, dissolve the sugar and salt in hot water.
- Add the juice and the remaining water; stirring together.
- Chill in the fridge.
- Enjoy during exercise!
Makes 4 servings (258 g /serving). 1 serving = 1 cup (250 mL)
