Mix My Bottle

Mix My Bottle works out a home-made carbohydrate drink for cycling, running and triathlon. Tell it the bottle size, how many grams of carbohydrate you want per hour and how long the bottle should last, choose your ingredients, and it returns the weight of each one, the sodium content and an estimated osmolality so you know whether the drink sits in the isotonic range or is a concentrated bottle to pair with plain water. WHAT IT DOES - Carbohydrate targets from 30 to 120 g per hour, with glucose:fructose ratios from 1:0.8 to 2:1 or a single source. - Ingredients you can actually buy: maltodextrin, dextrose, table sugar and fructose, plus sodium citrate, table salt, sodium alginate and citrus pectin. - Sodium targets of 350, 500 or 700 mg per litre, or your own figure, filled citrate-first with an optional share from salt. - Optional hydrogel agents at research-drink proportions, with a…