Over the weekend I finally sat down and finished up this little project from last year: the DIY Hydration calculator. Here's the deal and then the back story...
The deal: The calculator gives you recipes for a homemade electrolyte drink (a la Gatorade or Pedialyte) based on any starting juice (grape, orange, etc.). Making a drink with a balance of electrolytes and calories is as simple as mixing juice, water, sugar, and salt, but you have to figure out the right ratios, which depend on the juice you start with.
This calculator computes the recipe for you for any juice (or beverage for that matter) that you want to start with as a base. Enter the nutrition info for the base juice and your 2 quart recipe is calculated.
The back story: Sports drinks have seemingly endless packaging, marketing, and wild lists of ingredients for a drink that's so simple. A little googling revealed some great recipes for homemade versions:
BRT's Insights blog
Kitchen Table Medicine
Instructables
Chicago Tribune
After playing around, BRT's recipes were the most consistently good. But to try a new flavor or use whichever juice is on sale, the ratios of ingredients have to be calculated each time. Now we have the DIY Hydration calculator to do the work for us! The calculations are based on the recipes cited above, particularly BRT's.
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