Electrolyte-based sports drinks are a common place on sports fields, arenas and courts around the world and your neighborhood. They energize you before exercise, help you stay hydrated, and replenishing electrolytes lost through sweating, they can even improve your athletic performance. Problem is, like everything else found in the corner store and grocery stores these days – their cost keeps going up, and it’s only rising faster with the new generation of influencers, celebrities and athletes promoting their own brands and hyping the industry.

One of the benefits of homemade electrolyte drink is their cost-effectiveness, much cheaper than store-bought alternative, especially when you consume them frequently. Additionally, you can control what’s in them, and what you put in your body. Artificial sweeteners and colors? Not when homemade. Not only that, you choose the flavor, and can customize the nutrients and minerals in them, not to mention calorie and carb levels.