Skratch Labs Hydration Sports Drink Mix – Real‑Fruit Electrolyte Powder for Fast Hydration & Endurance | Lemon & Lime | 60 Servings | Vegan, Non‑GMO, Clean Ingredients

This is fantastic for carrying along for hikes or electrolyte replacement during travel. Of course it is perfect for long distance workouts. I pack it in a small plastic bag (I buy the 2x2 in for vitamins and supplements) and carry in my dry sack for long distance canoe or hikes. Then just pour in your water bottle. On the airplane, I add it after security at the water bottle station. In both instances I feel more energetic and no more cramping from dehydration. I like the lemon flavor. I wish they had orange. The powder mixes well.

This is the only company of electolyte mix I buy. They are awesome. Flavors are great, doesnt have weird after tastes like other companies. Doesn't cause my stomach to feel weird either. Can't recommend them enough!

I swear by the Scratch Labs Products. Every flavor i get tastes great, is packaged well, and works better than I could ask for. As an over weight guy in his 30s who has been taking huge strides to get back into shape I can honestly say that the hydration powder, the energy chews, and the recovery power all work phenomenally. My advise is to consume as needed, read the labeling and properly educate yourself on what your body needs. For me this has been a game changer during 10 plus mile rides and my career as a plumber.

Great energy drink. Taste good and seems to prevent post-run muscle cramping during hot weather!!!

Update 8/20/2016: I think that Skratch has reformulated this product, because it dissolves much easier than before, pretty much negating most of my comments. It is still pretty pricey (especially in single-serving pouches) and can still get cakey (tip: store it in a very dry environment like the fridge), though. I would definitely give it a try though. Also, I recommend purchasing it direct from the company. The shipping is very fast and when mine arrived it had a hand-written note, stickers, and free samples of new products! ________________________ I've been using this mix for about two years and really like it. I find it especially good for bike rides of over 40 miles when I'm the most susceptible to cramping. Allen Lim designed this mix to be easy on the stomach and combat cramping, so in that respect it's certainly been effective. One of the key ingredients in reducing cramping, though, is calcium. This means that the mix doesn't dissolve as easily as others because the calcium dissolves more slowly. After pouring in the water, you will most likely see suspended calcium particles. If you use cold water, these particles will survive long into your ride. By the time you get down to the bottom of the bottle, the mix starts to taste rather gritty. I've tried to figure out a way to eliminate this gritty texture. The most successful strategy has been to mix the powder with a little bit of lukewarm water and then let it sit overnight. The day of your ride/run/exercise, you can add cold water and/or ice cubes. I only buy the mix in individual packets because it's very susceptible to moisture and will, as other reviewers have mentioned, turn solid. In my experience, even keeping it in an airtight container isn't enough. I've tried the lemon/lime flavor, which is nice and light. This isn't a mix that will taste sugary, although it does tend to leave your mouth feeling a little puckered after a couple hours of drinking it. The flavors are also natural, so you won't get that artificial flavor you might be used to with other sports drinks. This can take a little getting used to. For instance, the orange flavor tastes a little like tomatoes to me. Not that I'm complaining! This is good stuff.

This stuff is great! Taste is very light and easy to go down

So I'm going to contextualize and preface the rest of this review by saying that when it comes to exercise, I'm pretty casual. I cycle when I can, and go to the gym for a relatively short while when the weather isn't conducive to cycling. I'm not a professional cyclist or a bodybuilder or athlete; I exercise purely to keep in healthy shape and stave off the cardiac issues that run in my family, topping out around 400mi/month (sounds far, really isn't). Sports drinks have never been a fondness of mine. On one end, you have drinks like C4, and indeed there is a use case, but not for people like me who are just out to keep fit. Then there's "sports" drinks like Gatorade, which are sugary, expensive, and a little bit. . . useless. For a long time, I really didn't use any additives in my water, but at one point I started searching for something that wouldn't be obscenely sweet, and wouldn't come with nasty side effects, but would just give me some extra sustaining power, and one person suggested Skratchlabs to me. Now, I could spend some time going over the menial details of the flavor, but let me just put it this way: it's good. I like it. Your mileage may vary. It's a light and refreshing lemon/lime flavor, and part of me has begun wondering if tossing in a bit of mint might actually not be an awful idea. When used as directed, it's not offensively sweet as are drinks like Gatorade, and this falls directly in line with Skratchlabs' Hydration mix's purpose of being a hydration booster and endurance extender than an actual fuel. This is great, because it does two things: keeps the flavor palatable, and keeps the actual calorie content of the mixture down, allowing higher burn rates from other sources. Bottom line is that it's a crisp, clean, flavor, and it's not something that you'd get tired of drinking after a few sips. Actual effectiveness wise, I'd say endurance-wise, for the purposes of cycling, the actual endurance boost I get out of using this is highly variable, as there are just too many variables involved to try and quantify the effect in the scope of one dude casually cycling. I will say that, from a subjective standpoint, the difference is night and day. If I had to guess, on average, my range goes up at least 35% simply due to fatigue and muscle fatigue not setting in as fast. As a disclaimer, I would like to acknowledge the possibility that the Placebo effect plays a role here, but I have serious doubts that this could explain all of it. For the purposes of an indoor gym environment, wherein I have substantially more control over the variables at play, the data is a little more concrete. The difference was staggering. Normally, my routine consists of 10 minutes or so of stretching, 2km of rowing, 35 minutes on an exercise bike at a resistance level that roughly emulates cruising at 100RPM and 13-15mph, and then 5x5 of anything I can think of for my arms until I get too exhausted to continue. The difference here, was that I really *didn't* get exhausted. What actually happened was that I could essentially continue until muscle fatigue set in and decreased performance. In endurance-type environments such as cycling, this was a little more subtle, but the number of reps I could push my arms to was visibly higher. Overall, 6 months of use later, I'm going to give this my seal of approval. My seal of approval is completely worthless, but I like this stuff, it works, and it's exactly what I would want from a sports drink.

Great mix of electrolytes when used with liquid IV. To much can overwhelm your system so I use just enough to avoid cramping in my training and racing. Adding skratch carbo to the mix and it is easy to support long races at optimal energy replacement and avoid electrolyte imbalances. Good for another 20 watts over long 5 hours. My go to when I set the 70.3 fastest age group time in 2022 at 66. I can race 70+ now and will be looking to go sub 5 hours this year. Currently 5:04 is the fastest 70.3 for the 70+ age group. FC