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In article <[email protected]>, gwhite <[email protected]> wrote:
> Howard Kveck wrote:
> >
>
> > I really like diluted Gatorade (about 60%), as it tastes ok when it's warm.
>
> I just think Gatorade is way too expensive for what it is. The carb is sucrose (table sugar).
> Check the price on a 10 lb bag of sucrose next time you are in a grocery store. Sport drinks are
> little more than low cost sugars with a few cheap salts thrown in, plus some flavor.
>
> The markup on sport drinks must be very high -- I believe it is mostly a hype product. I quit
> buying them since Twin Lab stopped making Hydra Fuel powder, since it was the only remotely
> reasonably priced drink, and only then if you bought it from "mail order."
I've been getting Gatorade powder at Costco for less than I used to pay for mail-order HydraFuel.
-WG
> Howard Kveck wrote:
> >
>
> > I really like diluted Gatorade (about 60%), as it tastes ok when it's warm.
>
> I just think Gatorade is way too expensive for what it is. The carb is sucrose (table sugar).
> Check the price on a 10 lb bag of sucrose next time you are in a grocery store. Sport drinks are
> little more than low cost sugars with a few cheap salts thrown in, plus some flavor.
>
> The markup on sport drinks must be very high -- I believe it is mostly a hype product. I quit
> buying them since Twin Lab stopped making Hydra Fuel powder, since it was the only remotely
> reasonably priced drink, and only then if you bought it from "mail order."
I've been getting Gatorade powder at Costco for less than I used to pay for mail-order HydraFuel.
-WG