The Original 1965 Gatorade Recipe (eatshistory.com)

"The players who tasted it immediately said it tasted like urine". I wonder how they knew.

A heads up that this is one of those recipe sites that go "I'll tell you a long story, but there's actually a recipe at the end". But it's worth the scroll: who knew Gatorade was sold in a flat top can that needed a key?

There is a viral trending brand of powder now that is pretty close to the original recipe with no added garbage.

https://sport-drink.com/

The main change is significantly more sugar and artificial flavoring. funny how now Gatorade is introducing low and no sugar variants. Perhaps they should just sell an original recipe variation.

I remember it well.

So many athletes now can almost not imagine how it was, when I tell them about when I was a boy the NFL was still drinking Kool-Aid.

Only the Gators had Gatorade.