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Best Drinks by Sodium
Drink mixes ranked by sodium per serving - the format that carries most of your race-day salt, whether you planned it or not.
Unlike gels, carbohydrate drinks tend to bring meaningful sodium, and the spread is wide: the mixes we track average around 290 mg per serving and the saltier endurance options run to 750 mg. Since your hourly loss is sweat rate multiplied by a sweat sodium concentration that ranges from about 300 to 1,500 mg per litre between athletes, the bottle is a good place to cover a large share of it.
It is also the easiest place to double-count. If your drink already carries 500 mg per bottle, you do not need high-sodium gels and electrolyte tabs stacked on top. Set the target first, then let the drink contribution count against it. Drinking large volumes of low-sodium fluid over many hours is the classic route to hyponatremia, and overshooting in the other direction is mostly wasted money.
The full argument, with references: Sweat rate, sodium, and why estimates have ±35% error
The top 10
Read sodium per serving against your hourly loss, and check the carbs column so the salt does not arrive with carbs you did not plan.
1180 mgSodium
80 gCarbs
-Caffeine
€3.64Price
1179 mgSodium
30 gCarbs
-Caffeine
€4.39Price
850 mgSodium
55 gCarbs
-Caffeine
€3.50Price
750 mgSodium
30 gCarbs
-Caffeine
€8.59Price
710 mgSodium
46 gCarbs
0 mgCaffeine
€0.55Price
500 mgSodium
0 gCarbs
0 mgCaffeine
€1.29Price
500 mgSodium
60 gCarbs
-Caffeine
€2.87Price
500 mgSodium
40 gCarbs
0 mgCaffeine
€2.50Price
500 mgSodium
30 gCarbs
-Caffeine
€2.86Price
500 mgSodium
30 gCarbs
-Caffeine
€2.00Price
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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