The best recipe for a homemade electrolyte drink, a natural hydration solution with 3 simple ingredients. Better than store bought with no artificial additives, sugars, and dyes, and perfect for post-workout hydration, and stomach flu or cold recovery.
Make a Grape Juice Flavor. Swap the orange juice for purple grape juice. Grape juice adds vitamin C, manganese and antioxidants.Make a Cranberry Juice Flavor. Swap the orange juice for cranberry juice and add potassium, magnesium and calcium.Make an Apple Juice Flavor. Swap the orange juice for cranberry juice and add potassium, sodium, magnesium, and calcium.Make blue electrolyte drink. Instead of plain water, use a cup of butterfly pea tea. To keep the color blue, skip the lemon juice and instead of ½ cup of juice, use ½ cup of plain water with 1 teaspoon of cranberry juice added to it.Add a sweetener. If you prefer a sweeter electrolyte water, add 1-2 tablespoon maple syrup. Maple syrup contains calcium, riboflavin, manganese, zinc, potassium and other electrolytes.This recipe makes 4 (5-ounce) servings.