Evening GMetropulo,
Is SMART water a healthier alternative to Gatorade? What about water with
Concentrace drops added?
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I am not familiar with Smart Water so I cannot make a guess or factual
statement.
If you look at the ingredients and analysis below, you can see that it
would be easy to make a drink as good or better, and not have the
artificial colors.
You could add orange juice, pineapple juice, tomato juice or grape
juice to provide the color and flavor, plus a few nutrients also.
Actually, if you compare Emergen'C, one pack has 200 mg of potassium
compared to 20 in 8 oz of gatorade.
I think the sugars are the key to success of gatorade, and of course the
water. Most people that drink it need the sugars and the water.
I think if you added potassium, sodium, and some fruit juice to water,
then did your analysis, you would have something superior to gatorade.
Add a pack of your favorite flavor of Emergen'C and there is no doubt that
it will be a better electrolyte booster, if that is what one is trying to
accomplish.
Many people had rather accept less because they have neither the mindset or
desire to do the small amount of work required to achieve a superior
electrolyte.
Or, Alacer make a powder to make a gallon of an electrolyte booster.
I do not know the analysis of it but it could be found easily.
Wayne
============= Gatorade Ingredients and Analysis
There is not that much in Gatorade.
Ingredients:
water, sucrose syrup, glucose-fructose syrup, citric acid, natural flavors
, salt, sodium citrate, monopotassium phosphate, yellow 6, ester gum,
brominated vegetable oil, red #40
Nutrition Facts:
serving size: 8fl oz; calories 50; total fat 0g; sodium 110mg; potassium
20mg; total carb 14g; sugars 14g; protein 0g;
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I see many young people drinking gatorade. It appears they are drinking it
instead of coke or other carbonated drinks thinking they are better off for
doing so. Most of them are not athletes,
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