The Homebrew Gel/Drink Thread
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Captain Mal posted 39 weeks ago.
I've been to the mad scientist's lab a couple of times. My first experiment worked, but tasted nasty. Second recipe was much better.
1st time:
4 parts organic brown rice syrup
1 part agave nectar
sea salt
root beer extract
Kind of like Cliff Shot, but NASTY!!! Still, it did the job. We used it for a century ride and I never made it again. The organic stuff just tasted too...organic and I must have put in too much salt. So, forget organic. Moving from Rocky Balboa to Ivan Drago.
2nd recipe:
4 parts maltodextrin (from brew store)
1 part granulated fructose (from supermarket/helth food store)
2 parts water
strawberry extract
Much better. This one is more like gu. I haven't had the heart to try it with some salt in it yet. If you like hammer gel more than gu, take out the fructose. They disagree on whether it is a plus or a minus to have an additional sugar like this one.
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alowrun posted 39 weeks ago.
1 Cup Non-Fat, Plain Yogurt.
4 Table Spoons Honey.
1 Teaspoon of nut-free granola.
The ideal recovery nutrition.
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theShiba posted 39 weeks ago.
Thank you all for your contributions. I am definitely going to look at your second recipe, Captain... I am thinking that there must be some sort of savings to making your own, right? Then I could just throw it in a gel flask and go....
Great tip, alow.... I love to eat yogurt after a workout too. That, and string cheese are my favorite.
Keep them coming, people...
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jasonm posted 37 weeks ago.
I simply mix a maltodextrin (either Polyjoule or Polycal depending on which is cheaper) with water to either make a sports drinks or gel (the ratio is what varies). Sometimes for extended sessions in the heat I add a little bit of salt to the mix.
Simple, and a neutral mildly sweet flavour is what I get and GIT is so much more settled than when I use commercial gels.
I'm thinking of experimenting with adding a small amount of Fructose to the mix as there is some research to suggest that mixing Fructose with another form of Carbohydrate increases the bodies ability to take up more Carbohydrate. Increasing from the accept 1g/min up to values recorded between 1.2-17.5g/min. If this is true, then this could make a big difference to racing.
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jasonm posted 37 weeks ago.
Correction: I meant 1.2 - 1.75g/min.... I put the decimal in the wrong place in the original post.
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deepbluex posted 36 weeks ago.
Jasonm - I also read that we uptake fructose and glucose using 2 separate independent pathways and so by consuming a mixture of the two, you almost double the rate of absorption compared to consuming glucose or fructose alone. Apparently bees know this because honey is a perfect balance of fructose and glucose.
I found a source that explains this here - read down to "Science explained":
http://www.powerbar.com/NutritionResource/ToolsArticles/ArticlesDetails.aspx?id=41F0A8BD-2367-466C-8106-CA2038FE166F
Ok... so people say they "make their own" all the time, but THIS ONE From Leroy Bonkers is the first I have seen posted here.
Post your (not-so) secret formula and help out your fellow TFers.
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