[clairity]

i still drink gatorade all these years after being indoctrinated into it through basketball (via marketing agreements with schools), where we made it from powder in 10-gallon coolers. i still highly recommend making it from powder, so you don't pay the premium to transport water needlessly. it's also roughly 10× cheaper that way, and you can make it (much) less sweet, which is better for hydration/replenishment.

[fuzzfactor]

My employer has the packets in every port location so the field operators can always have some when they are out climbing the cargo tanks and boarding the ships.

If they haven't got bottled water then potable water is OK too, just need to carry an empty Gatorade bottle in the truck.

I guess Amazon workers would need two empty Gatorade bottles then, and really need to keep track of which is which.

[Arrath]

Yes, a co-worker learned on one particularly long drive never to buy a certain color after a mix-up of which bottle was which.

[sk5t]

All the more reason to prefer blue or red solution (just don't eat too many beets).

[runnerup]

Gatorade doesn't even have electrolytes in it anymore. The current formulation is purely sugar water. The true original formulation used for the football team tasted really quite bad - you can emulate it by mixing "Low-sodium salt" into some water and give it a try. It's....not good.

Really - there's almost zero potassium at all in the current formulation...pretty small amounts of sodium too. It just sugar water. Now you need to buy something like "Electrolit" to use for what Gatorade used to be. Or the "Gatorade Endurance Formula".

[clairity]

yah, i'd heard gatorade got 'watered-down' early on for taste, but i believe there are still a few other ingredients in there other than sugar and flavoring? not saying it's enough to live up to the marketing, but i think it's not exactly zero.

[Alex3917]

Interesting enough, you can order the large things of powdered Gatorade for in-store pickup from Target, but they don't have it on the shelves. They don't want anyone to buy it, but if you're going to buy it online then they'd rather sell it to you. On their website they list it as being on a "secret shelf" that doesn't actually exist in the store.

As long as it's 50% diluted, it's still as good as all of the more modern products for most use cases.