From the corporate most famous for his or her natural honey power merchandise comes Mango Melon Rapid Hydration Mix – a subtle-tasting electrolyte powder that comes with a contact of caffeine. I’ve been utilizing this powder for a few month in numerous conditions, together with:

• Post common operating exercises of about 1hr.
• As a pit cease drink throughout longer exercises that included a loop.
• During a few cross-country flights to assist guarantee I’m able to roll as quickly as I get off the airplane.
• I additionally put it to the take a look at alongside Spring Energy Gels throughout a 40 km path race.

Although no blood content material assessments have been taken in the course of the testing periods, I discovered the electrolyte powder to be fairly efficient. While consuming the drink I by no means felt any impact of dehydration resembling cramps throughout my exercises and a path race, and I felt fairly energized after coaching (this might need been partly as a result of results of caffeine together with L-theanine).

With that mentioned, lets take a better take a look at this new product from Honey Stinger.

Marketing claims

The Honey Stinger household of hydration merchandise is available in three varieties of merchandise:

Prepare – these mixes are marketed as a technique to merely replenish electrolytes and fluids misplaced to every day metabolic exercise (metabolic exercise being primarily the actions inside your physique that cope with changing meals to power in addition to conversion of meals into constructing blocks that your physique can use to regenerate itself).

Perform – these have been the mixes we really examined, and they’re marketed as serving to you carry out at your greatest by offering you with power and replenishing the electrolytes misplaced as a result of sweating.

Recover – these mixes are supposed to be consumed after exercises to assist with restoration and in addition supply some immune boosting by way of substances like zinc and extra nutritional vitamins.

One key declare of Honey Stinger to the greatness of this product offers with – you guessed it – honey. Specifically the Honey Stinger claims:

Honey is glucose and fructose. But naturally, the intestine can solely take up 1 gram of glucose per minute or 60 grams per hour. The added fructose permits for the absorption of a further 30 grams of carbohydrates per hour. This further absorption helps preserve blood sugar ranges and stop hypoglycemia throughout coaching and competitors. So in the event you’re trying to level-up your well being and efficiency, honey-powered hydration is likely to be the aggressive benefit you’ve been ready for.

Let me go just a little deeper into my expertise with the electrolyte combine:

Overall expertise – straightforward to eat, style good, and enhance in power with out jitters

Mango is one in all my favourite flavors so I used to be excited to strive the Mango Melon taste. At first, I discovered the style just a little underwhelming – it was very refined. As I continued to eat the electrolyte drink, I discovered the subtlety of the flavour to be a plus – in any case in the event you’re going to be utilizing the drink for a multi-hour occasion or onerous exercise, then an overwhelmingly sturdy style would possibly get outdated after the preliminary sips.

Note: Most of the time I blended it per the advice of 1 packet (16 grams) to 16 ounces of water. I discovered it fairly straightforward to combine with only a few sturdy shakes inside my Nalgene bottle. 

Regarding efficiency, I discovered the drink passable in making me really feel adequately hydrated despite the fact that most of the assessments befell on heat days. I additionally did really feel a slight enhance in power much like what I’d often really feel from ingesting espresso however with not one of the jitteriness that typically comes from over-caffeination.

Ingredients and dietary details

Thumbs as much as Honey Stinger for holding the ingredient listing brief. Here is the label in your reference. Note that though they promote honey as the important thing ingredient within the advertising declare, it’s really tapioca solids syrup that’s the primary ingredient within the listing (you’ll be able to learn just a little about interpret ingredient lists in our what’s inside power gel article).

Honey Stinger Rapid Hydration Mango Melon Nutrition data:

Conclusion

• I’m a fan of this hydration product, I discovered myself craving it even after I wasn’t understanding however after I felt just a little little bit of thirst creeping into my system.
• I discovered the packs straightforward to combine and the flavour straightforward to eat, even in massive portions, like throughout my 6-hour path race.
• The caffeine is a pleasant contact that provides a constructive enhance throughout lengthy runs.

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If you’re fascinated about studying extra about Honey Stinger merchandise try our Honey Stinger power gel evaluate, or our evaluate of Honey Stinger protein restoration bar.