Project Description
Ingredients
- 1 cup water or coconut water
- 1/8 tsp sea salt (Himalayan pink salt/Celtic Sea Salt)
- Juice of 1/2 lemon or lime (or both)
- Juice of 1 orange (or 1/2 cup orange juice)
- 1 tsp Blackstrap molasses
- 1/2 tsp honey to taste (optional)
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in a large cup or water bottle.
- Mix well and enjoy in your mason jar or favorite BPA-free stainless steel water hot/cold bottle!
Why Not Regular Sports Drinks? Before you stop by the store for a Gatorade on the way to the game, try making your own natural version! It is easy, just as fast, and a lot healthier.
Regular sports drinks contain ingredients like: Sucrose syrup, glucose-fructose syrup, citric acid, natural grape flavor with other natural flavors, salt, sodium citrate, monopotassium phosphate, red 40, Blue 1.
They also typically have fruit-like flavors but labels that say “contain no fruit.”
These ingredients not only spike blood sugar at a time when you need to be replenishing electrolytes, but they are also unnatural and since they are hard on the liver to synthesize, your body is spending energy to figure out what these ingredients are and how to filter them from your system during a time when you need your body to up its performance. So much for replenishing electrolytes effectively!
