Sugars in fruit.
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claireychn074 wrote: »
Well I can’t burp (at the risk of over-sharing here) so I would explode if I tried lifting after drinking coke 🤣 But lucozade sport is fine as it’s not fizzy 😀sollyn23l2 wrote: »sollyn23l2 wrote: »
The quantity of fructose per gram in the sports drink is very different from the quantity of fructose per gram of a piece of fruit. And the fruit comes with fiber. How much fiber does that sports drink have? But you are correct in that fructose is fructose is fructose is fructose. Take that sports drink, mix it 50/50 with water, and add some Metamucil powder to it... they'd be fairly similar
But I don't want to be taking in fibre when I'm cycling long distances, I just want the easy availability of energy from the glucose/fructose mix. My perfectly adequate fibre intake comes from the rest of my diet.
Care needs to be taken making statements that are factually incorrect. It can lead to a mistaken focus on the individual components of a diet rather than diet as a complete whole.
"Fruit is different to straight sugar" would be true but that's also something that really doesn't need saying!
You could also just as easily get the fructose from a coke or mountain dew... they're all the same.
Wrong.
Read the ingredients and you will see they are different. Because sports drink are formulated specifically for purpose and not just as a refreshing beverage. And different sports drinks have different purposes and dosages.
A mix could be 2:1 ratio of glucose to fructose (though some are glucose only (glucose has faster absorbtion rate) for energy.
Some have electrolytes to replenish what is lost through sweating (although some people prefer to work out their electrolytes separately). I don't need additional electrolytes in winter but do in hot weather.
Some sports drinks will include caffeine (some won't).
I've also used a mix that includes some protein which clearly Coke and Mountain Dew do not.
The whole point I was making is that individual shared ingredients (including specific types of sugar (and even water!) will be identical. That's it. You can't extrapolate to saying two different drinks with different ingredients are "all the same".
What sports drink do you use that has protein in it, or do you mix your own?
@claireychn074
High-5 do an energy drink mix which is 4 parts carbs to one part protein.
Per bottle when cycling that gives me 105g of carbs and 27g of protein.
Perhaps a bit low dosage of protein for your lifting workouts but when cycling I'm drinking multiple bottles.
TBH I can't tell any difference compared to a more usual carb only mix. I bought it because it was on special offer!
Wiggle sell it and full nutritional info is there -
https://www.wiggle.co.uk/high5-energy-drink-with-protein-16kg-21 -
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cmriverside wrote: »
Not in my world! 😁
Actually, that's not true. I don't buy real sugar. I wonder if it would work with splenda.
I really thought someone would question how to drink backwards out of a glass.0 -
cmriverside wrote: »
Not in my world! 😁
Actually, that's not true. I don't buy real sugar. I wonder if it would work with splenda.
I really thought someone would question how to drink backwards out of a glass.
OK, this is from long-term memory so maybe flawed:
Years back, there was research into the folk remedies for hiccups. The "swallow dry sugar" was one that tested out to be successful, above chance. I can't recall whether it was speculation, or further testing, but the thinking was that it was the granularity of the sugar creating (for lack of a better word) roughness/irritation that stimulated muscles or nerves inside the throat, and interrupted the hiccups.
IF that's true, a powdery thing wouldn't wouldn't work, or maybe even something that melted faster in the throat than sugar does. I don't use the artificial sweeteners, but my impression is that some are more powdery than granular. Don't know about Splenda's texture, specifically.0 -
cmriverside wrote: »
Not in my world! 😁
Actually, that's not true. I don't buy real sugar. I wonder if it would work with splenda.
I really thought someone would question how to drink backwards out of a glass.
OK, this is from long-term memory so maybe flawed:
Years back, there was research into the folk remedies for hiccups. The "swallow dry sugar" was one that tested out to be successful, above chance. I can't recall whether it was speculation, or further testing, but the thinking was that it was the granularity of the sugar creating (for lack of a better word) roughness/irritation that stimulated muscles or nerves inside the throat, and interrupted the hiccups.
IF that's true, a powdery thing wouldn't wouldn't work, or maybe even something that melted faster in the throat than sugar does. I don't use the artificial sweeteners, but my impression is that some are more powdery than granular. Don't know about Splenda's texture, specifically.
Oh god, trying it with sweet n low just entered my mind and not even *I* like sweets that much.
I wonder if that also ties into the scare tactic. Your breathing changes when you're scared and it throws a curve ball at the hiccups? I don't know. 😀
Splenda has a granulated version, I think. I use the great value brand for my greek yogurt/cottage cheese/protein powder mix (depending on the greek yogurt used) and as a lower calorie cinnamon sugar topping for bread and it seems a touch more powdery than regular sugar.0 -
For me the opposite side of the glass thing is the only remedy that works for hiccups.
It affects the palate and probably something in the throat. I've never had luck with just sugar.
But now I want that cookie, @glassyo0 -
I don't want to brag, but I'm pretty sure I'm having very nutritious cookies this week. Pumpkin chocolate chip. You've got vegetables, anti-oxidants in the chocolate chips, all kinds of good stuff
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Ooooh. You just reminded me I have one last Lazy Acres chocolate chip cookie in the freezer and I’m low on calories……a little bit of caloric serendipity.1
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the same with me. how do you feel? If you feel great and you are losing and/or maintaining your weight I would not focus to much on it.0
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