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Best Drinks by Price
Drink mixes ranked by price per serving, cheapest first - the format you buy by the tub, in training as well as racing.
Drink mixes run from well under a euro to over eight euros per serving in our catalogue, and the sachets hold wildly different amounts of carbohydrate, so the sticker price on its own tells you almost nothing. A high-carb mix can look expensive per serving and still be reasonable per gram, because each serving carries 80 g rather than 30 g.
Cost also compounds harder here than on any other shelf, because a bottle mix is what you use on every long ride and every hot session, not only on race day. The value play is to price your everyday hydration-and-fuel bottle carefully and pay up only where the product does something specific, such as a verified glucose-fructose blend for going above 60 g/h.
The full argument, with references: How to choose a sports drink
The top 10
Divide price by the carbs column to compare per gram of carbohydrate - the only comparison that survives across serving sizes.
€0.03Price
30 gCarbs
0 mgCaffeine
-Sodium
€0.44Price
15 gCarbs
0 mgCaffeine
0 mgSodium
€0.55Price
46 gCarbs
0 mgCaffeine
710 mgSodium
€0.55Price
30.6 gCarbs
0 mgCaffeine
500 mgSodium
€0.71Price
21 gCarbs
0 mgCaffeine
403 mgSodium
€0.93Price
37 gCarbs
0 mgCaffeine
302 mgSodium
Crown Sport Nutrition
No. 7: HyperDrink 45 (1:0,8), Bebida isotónica alta en hidratos de carbono
glucose_fructose · liquid
€1.11Price
45 gCarbs
-Caffeine
235 mgSodium
€1.16Price
-Carbs
-Caffeine
-Sodium
€1.21Price
48 gCarbs
0 mgCaffeine
0 mgSodium
€1.25Price
20 gCarbs
0 mgCaffeine
300 mgSodium
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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