{"id":1684,"slug":"hypotonic-sports-drink","title":"Hypotonic Sports Drink","description":"Making your own sports drink is cheap, easy, and effective. Hypotonic drinks are absorbed faster than plain water, helping maintain hydration during exercise, and this recipe requires only three ingredients.","ingredients_raw":["450 ml water","⅛ teaspoon (~0.7 g) table salt","50 ml cordial (undiluted squash concentrate)"],"ingredients_norm":["water","table salt","cordial"],"steps":["Transfer the water to a clean container, such as a measuring jug.","Stir in the salt until fully dissolved, then mix in the cordial. Stir thoroughly until evenly mixed.","Chill the mixture in the fridge until cool.","Pour into a clean sports bottle or thermos flask and sip gradually during exercise."],"categories":["Recipes for beverages","Recipes using salt"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":5,"servings":null,"yield_text":"1 flask / 500 ml","difficulty":"very easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Hypotonic_Sports_Drink","source_ref":"4614771","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Hypotonic_Sports_Drink&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"d78c9e3ed2ab85b360fad447f947d5c89fd3494158ae764a95a3891d2cf9dd9e","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:05Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:05Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/hypotonic-sports-drink"}