Here's the list of ingredients for Lemon Lime Gatoraide: Water, sucrose syrup, glucose-fructose syrup, citric acid, natural lemon and lime flavors with other natural flavors, salt, sodium citrate, monopotassium phosphate, ester gum, yellow 5.
I can't find the fruit punch one on the web. That's the one I use, since the lemon lime tastes nasty with my vanilla protein powder...
The bottled/liquid ones are different from the powders, but I don't think they have HFCS, but do have fructose as a main carb. I've read many places that the liquid ones aren't as good for PWO drinks. They may be fine for endurance athletes, but I can't really comment on that.
Careful to choose your sports nutrition drinks carefully. Powerade, for example, uses HFCS, and corn syrup, in addition to other sugars in it's bottled drinks.
Also, I checked into using Kool-Aid and stuff like that instead of gatoraid, but they all had plain sugar and fructose as top two ingredients.
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