DIY Homemade Electrolyte Drink (natural hydration)
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.
Servings: 4
Calories: 15kcal
Equipment
Ingredients
- ½ cup orange juice (240 ml)*
- 2 cups water (480 ml)
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- ⅛ tsp baking soda
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to a measuring cup.
- Stir and enjoy chilled or at room temperature.
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Notes
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.
Make an Apple Juice Flavor. Swap the orange juice for unsweetened apple juice.
Make a Watermelon Lime Flavor. Swap the orange juice for fresh watermelon juice (use my fresh watermelon juice recipe here) and swap the lemon juice for lime juice (again here is my fresh lime juice recipe).
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.
Nutrition
Calories: 15kcal | Carbohydrates: 3g | Protein: 0.2g | Fat: 0.1g | Saturated Fat: 0.01g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.01g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.01g | Sodium: 113mg | Potassium: 66mg | Fiber: 0.1g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 62IU | Vitamin C: 17mg | Calcium: 7mg | Iron: 0.1mg
