[Sca-cooks] Sugar free sports drink alternative

[Speaker To Idiots]

> Anyway, other than the ubiquitous and all-pervasive Gatorade, what commercial 
> brands have people tried that are tolerable - not to artificially chemically 
> in flavor, and not too fluorescent?
>
> Urtatim / Anahita

I cannot have artificial food coloring nor can I tolerate aspartame, so 
I'm limited to clear flavors which are understandably not as popular on 
the fighting field because they look like water. The white Powerade is 
actually not bad, but it contains high-fructose corn syrup, which is 
another thing I'm trying to avoid.

Our solution of late has been drink syrups--cherry with cinnamon and clove 
is not documentable but really tasty. I haven't actually tried the 
pomegranate toffee as a drink syrup yet (HRM thought it would make great 
pancake syrup), but the lemon mint is also really tasty. I don't see why 
you couldn't reduce the juice without adding extra sugar to it, if you 
were trying to reduce sugar.

Also, there are recipes on the net (and in the Flori-thingy, for that 
matter) for switchel, which although AFAIK is not period, is also not 
commercial sports drink.

Margaret FitzWilliam

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