Making my own electrolyte drink
Jan. 2nd, 2022 10:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbrI've been experimenting with making my own lazy electrolyte drinks since all the ones I could find had artificial sweeteners which tend to disagree with me.
Currently I'm basically just making dilute cordial(*) plus about 1/4 teaspoon of table salt per litre in a jug in a fridge, which has been SUPER refreshing.
Commercial electrolyte drinks have other salts like magnesium and potassium but all the easily available unsweetened powders I could find included a variety of other vitamins etc which I'd feel weird having in such inconsistent amounts and they also probably don't taste great in aggregate.
I'm wondering if something like Heart Salt would be better than regular salt, it has a little artificial sweetener to cut the bitterness of the potassium but presumably less than stuff like Hydralyte/Gatorade etc. The fact their website says nothing about it being a more varied electrolyte makes me wonder if the potassium isn't very bioavailable or something.
My favourite flavour combo so far is 1.5L of raspberry cordial plus an extra cup of water to reduce acidity and sugar, with two tulsi teabags left in it for a few hours to add more complexity of flavour. Which is still a fair amount of sugar and artificial colouring but unfortunately lightly flavoured water easily falls into an uncanny valley of undrinkability for me. Though maybe chilled lightly salted water would be ok? Wouldn't taste as nice though...
Experiments continue!
(*)I know people overseas use 'cordial' differently than we do here. I'm talking about an uncarbonated drink made by diluting a flavoured sugar syrup with water.
Currently I'm basically just making dilute cordial(*) plus about 1/4 teaspoon of table salt per litre in a jug in a fridge, which has been SUPER refreshing.
Commercial electrolyte drinks have other salts like magnesium and potassium but all the easily available unsweetened powders I could find included a variety of other vitamins etc which I'd feel weird having in such inconsistent amounts and they also probably don't taste great in aggregate.
I'm wondering if something like Heart Salt would be better than regular salt, it has a little artificial sweetener to cut the bitterness of the potassium but presumably less than stuff like Hydralyte/Gatorade etc. The fact their website says nothing about it being a more varied electrolyte makes me wonder if the potassium isn't very bioavailable or something.
My favourite flavour combo so far is 1.5L of raspberry cordial plus an extra cup of water to reduce acidity and sugar, with two tulsi teabags left in it for a few hours to add more complexity of flavour. Which is still a fair amount of sugar and artificial colouring but unfortunately lightly flavoured water easily falls into an uncanny valley of undrinkability for me. Though maybe chilled lightly salted water would be ok? Wouldn't taste as nice though...
Experiments continue!
(*)I know people overseas use 'cordial' differently than we do here. I'm talking about an uncarbonated drink made by diluting a flavoured sugar syrup with water.
