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Best Drinks by Caffeine
The caffeinated corner of the drink-mix shelf, ranked by caffeine per serving.
Only about one in eight of the drinks we track contains caffeine, and a bottle is an awkward delivery vehicle for it. The ergogenic band is 3 to 6 mg per kilogram of bodyweight with plasma peak 45 to 60 minutes after ingestion, which means the dose wants to be placed at a moment, not dribbled in over two hours of sipping.
That does not make a caffeinated mix useless. It makes it a background dose you have to account for: whatever the bottle carries counts against your total, so a gel or tablet placed deliberately before the hard part of the race should be sized around it, not on top of it. Sip rate also decides how much you actually get, which is a real argument for keeping the bottle caffeine-free.
The full argument, with references: Caffeine for endurance, by dose and timing
The top 10
Treat the caffeine column as a per-bottle budget line, then place the rest of your dose with a gel timed 45 to 60 minutes out.
100 mgCaffeine
30 gCarbs
462 mgSodium
€2.20Price
100 mgCaffeine
80 gCarbs
430 mgSodium
€4.00Price
100 mgCaffeine
15 gCarbs
200 mgSodium
-Price
75 mgCaffeine
22 gCarbs
275 mgSodium
€6.59Price
75 mgCaffeine
45 gCarbs
357 mgSodium
€2.22Price
35 mgCaffeine
60 gCarbs
320 mgSodium
€2.25Price
30 mgCaffeine
54 gCarbs
210 mgSodium
€2.03Price
Hammer Nutrition
No. 8: Perpetuem - Endurance Drink for long-lasting energy Caffeine
glucose_only · powder
30 mgCaffeine
54 gCarbs
210 mgSodium
€2.03Price
25 mgCaffeine
27.5 gCarbs
165 mgSodium
€3.75Price
25 mgCaffeine
27.5 gCarbs
200 mgSodium
€3.75Price
The full ranking
All 112 drinks we track, ranked on the same number. Positions 11 onward are listed below, 25 at a time.
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