Post your sugar fuel recipe please
More interested in trying to make it less sweet
90gr a hr multi hr bottle
Using sodium citrate for the sodium
Is it just add a scoop of Gatorade or similar?
Thanks
And is there a difference between white sugar and raw sugar?
Costco organic cane sugar, sodium citrate, several splashes of lemon juice.
With the lemon juice it isn’t too sweet. Very inexpensive, very tasty
There would be a slightly different taste from raw sugar, but almost certainly not worth the extra cost.
Water + sugar (I buy 50lb bags) + sodium citrate
No difference between the two.
Besides acids like lemon and lime juice … You can also replace some of the sugar with matodextrin, which is less sweet than sugar. Up to 1 part matodextrin to 2 parts sugar.
Also more saltiness can help reduce the perception of sweetness. So, you could replace some of the sodium citrate with salt.
Sorry , I don’t have any recipes because I don’t have an issue with the sweetness.
If you ever want to have fun thinking about all the trace amounts of stuff that gets in our food that’s not on the label …
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/14/12/2121#:~:text=The%20average%20Pb%20concentrations%20in%20panela%2C%20white%2C,mg%20kg−1%2C%20respectively%2C%20for%20the%20M1%20brand.&text=Likewise%2C%20in%20white%20sugar%2C%20the%20Pb%20level,MPL%20of%20the%20regulations%20by%203.2%20times.
One analysis of nutritional differences between raw and processed sugar
Gluconeogenesis. It’s free.
My go to for a 1L/bottle with 90g of carbs (2:1 glucose:fructose ratio):
30g maltodextrin
60g table sugar
2g Citric acid (removes 100% of the sweetness)
3g salt
I buy bulk maltodextrin and fructose. I mix them at 1:0.8 ratio because I’m neurotic but I’m sure 1:1 is totally fine too
I find it tastes less sweet than straight table sugar and my stomach handles it a bit better especially when I get over 120g/h
I add flavouring or lemon juice but lately I’ve been enjoying using Sodastream water flavouring as it’s not meant to taste sweet. Sometimes the flavouring that has sucralose or aspartame is gross because it enhances the sweetness of the sugar
And then of course sodium citrate
I have just ordered some of these as i am sick of paying for branded equivalents. What quantities of each do you put in to achieve 90g?
My Maltodextrin (from MyProtein) says 50g is 48g of carbs. The Fructose (fruit sugar) hasnt turned up yet.
Thanks.
I weigh 50g malto and 40g fructose for that 1:0.8 ratio. I think it nets out to something like 87g of carbs which is close enough for me
Just get this book. It was written by Dr. Alex Harrison who is also active on this forum. It will give you all the answers you are looking for.
None of these recipes seem to have any source of potassium. Is that an issue?
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+1 to this. I’ve tried various amounts of Gatorade and found it just a bit too sweet.
So does no one just use straight sugar ? (And sodium citrate)
I thought that’s what Dr H recommends?
I do…plain sugar and sodium citrate all the way. Half the time I don’t even add flavor.
My response was just a way to lower the sweetnss, per the OP request.
750ml water
6x heaped tablespoons table sugar
Pinch salt
Get on with it
If I’m feeling fancy, a quarter of lemon or orange
Potassium is not a limiting factor in performance.
I use Dr. H’s ‘Saturday’ app because I like how it tells me what and how much to make depending upon my event/workout. Sugar & Sodium Citrate is all that I use.
I mean, whatever you eat to provide your body with the substrate used for gluconeogenesis is going to be more expensive than table sugar.
My own body fat?
Sir, that’s free. 55k calories. 70kg, 10% body fat.