{"product_id":"daily-hydration-formula-dragon-fruit","title":"Daily Hydration Formula - Dragon Fruit","description":"\u003cp\u003eEver bought a hydration product that bragged about not using sugar? I've got bad news for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eHydration doesn't work without sugar\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eYour gut wall isn't a sieve. Water can't soak through it and you can't push it across. It only ever moves by following something else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBuilt into the wall of your intestine is a tiny gate, and it's a revolving door with a rule: it turns only when a particle of salt and a particle of sugar arrive together. Salt alone, nothing. Sugar alone, nothing. Both at once and it spins, and the water follows them through.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThat gate is why a glass of water with salt and sugar in it moves through you differently from plain water. It's the basis of oral rehydration therapy, which sits on the World Health Organisation's list of essential medicines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eTake the sugar out and you've got salty water. Which is fine. It just isn't doing the thing the science says it does - and it won't rehydrate you properly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eTwo doors, not one\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eGlucose and fructose cross into you through two completely separate doorways. Most of the few products that bother with a sugar at all use one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFour grams of glucose, two grams of fructose. That ratio isn't there to sweeten anything and it isn't a rounding error on the panel. It's the whole design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWe use sugar and we're not hiding it. It's the reason the rest of it works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWhat's in one 9.5g sachet\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003cthead\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"col\"\u003e\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"col\"\u003e\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/thead\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eGlucose\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e4g\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFructose\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e2g\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSodium citrate\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e1300mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePotassium citrate\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e700mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eNatural dragon fruit flavour\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e500mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMagnesium glycinate\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e430mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCitric acid\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e300mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMonk fruit extract\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e125mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBlack carrot extract\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e50mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSilicon dioxide\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e50mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eProviding 500mg sodium, 250mg potassium and 60mg magnesium.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eTen ingredients. No blend, no filler, no maltodextrin bulking out the sachet. Every one of them is doing a job, and you can see how much of it is in there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSodium and potassium\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSodium is the mineral you lose most of in sweat, and it's half of what makes that gate in your gut turn. Potassium is the one that works opposite it across every cell membrane you have. The two of them together are the pair your body actually runs the balance on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWe use them both as citrates rather than chlorides. Citrate is easier on an empty stomach and it doesn't bring the sharp saline edge that chloride does, which matters when you're drinking half a litre of it in one go on a hot day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMagnesium, and why the form is the story\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis is the ingredient where most of the category quietly saves money, and it's worth understanding why.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMagnesium can't be sold on its own. It has to be bound to something, and what it's bound to changes almost everything about how it behaves. Magnesium oxide is the cheapest by a wide margin and is poorly absorbed. Magnesium citrate is the industry default: inexpensive, adequately absorbed, and known well enough to have a second use as a laxative. That's not a rumour, it's what it's prescribed for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWe use magnesium glycinate. It's bound to glycine, the smallest amino acid, and that bond does two things. It dissolves cleanly, so there's no grit sitting at the bottom of the glass. And it's markedly gentler on the gut, which is the difference between a drink you reach for after a long session and one you learn to be careful with.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIt costs us several times what oxide would. A panel that just says \"magnesium\" tells you none of this, which is exactly why we print the form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eDragon fruit, because there's dragon fruit in it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eNobody flavours an electrolyte drink with dragon fruit. They flavour it with lemon lime, orange, berry, watermelon, because those flavour bases are cheap, stable and already sitting in every flavour house's catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eDragon fruit is not that. It's a cactus fruit, grown in the tropics, expensive to source and difficult to work with. Pink, faintly floral, and nothing at all like what an electrolyte drink is supposed to taste like.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIt's also a better story than it has any right to be. Everyone assumes it's ancient and Asian. It's from Central America. French colonists carried it to Vietnam in the 1800s, where it sat in ornamental gardens for roughly a century being admired and not eaten. Somebody started farming it properly in the 1980s, and Vietnam is now the largest producer on earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe name is a straight translation of the Chinese \u003cem\u003ehuolongguo\u003c\/em\u003e, fire dragon fruit, for the overlapping scales on its skin. It looks like something that hatched.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eColoured with black carrot extract, which is where the deep pink comes from. Sweetened with monk fruit only. No sucralose, no acesulfame K, no dyes, no numbers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOne serve, sealed\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eNo scoop, no scales, no tub taking up half a shelf. The sachet goes in a gym bag, a laptop sleeve, a glovebox or a coat pocket, and it's still the same 9.5g when you get there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSealed in aluminium, so it's the same whether you drink it now or a year from now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eVegan. Gluten free. Lactose free.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eHow to use\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eTear, tip into 250 to 500ml of cold water, shake or stir. More water for a lighter taste, less for a stronger one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMade for people who read the label\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eYou're this far down a product page, so you probably already do. The full ingredient list and nutrition panel are on the back of every sachet, and everything in there is on this page too.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gym Concoction","offers":[{"title":"5 Sachets","offer_id":49308936995035,"sku":"9369900116800","price":21.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"10 Sachets","offer_id":49308937027803,"sku":"9369900116801","price":43.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"20 Sachets","offer_id":49308937060571,"sku":"9369900116802","price":85.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"50 Sachets","offer_id":49308937093339,"sku":"9369900116803","price":209.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100 Sachets","offer_id":49308937126107,"sku":"9369900116804","price":398.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/5181\/4619\/files\/40CC1DE0-0F37-4637-9D1E-C91BA5AEBD3C.jpg?v=1789440421","url":"https:\/\/www.gymconcoction.com.au\/products\/daily-hydration-formula-dragon-fruit","provider":"Gym Concoction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}