> The only thing that we seem to agree on, is that any sort of beverage containing sucrose is bad for you. Oooh, I guess I get to throw the wrench in that one.

> The only thing that we seem to agree on, is that any sort of beverage containing sucrose is bad for you. Oooh, I guess I get to throw the wrench in that one. Endurance athletes benefit from the intake of large amounts of sugars during activity. Most sports drinks are primarily a mix of maltodextrin and fructose but the science is increasingly pointing toward something closer to a 1:1 glucose:fructose ratio being optimal at large carbohydrate intake -- in other words sucrose! Ingested in an appropriate context, it is an excellent and easy to digest fuel source. You get to throw a couple hundred grams of table sugar into a sports bottle and call it healthy.