Gatorade, honey, fruit, fruit juice, Coke... And if you look at Gu Chomps and Clif Blocks, their primary ingredients are sugars first, with maltodextrin being way down the list. But their gels are maltodextrin first, other sugars second. So if you want a happy tummy, the same company's gels are a smarter bet than their chewy block things.

If you look at Gatorade's ingredients (water, sucrose (table sugar), dextrose, citric acid, natural flavor, sodium chloride (table salt), sodium citrate, monopotassium phosphate, and flavoring/coloring ingredients) you'll see there's no starch in there at all. And that's why people can only drink so much Gatorade before puking it up. But the same person can eat 3 or 4 gels made mostly of maltodextrin in an hour and be totally fine.

And you'll also see lots of comments of people loving these waffle fuels... Bread is a starch. :)

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