50# bag of maltodextrin?

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The DE doesn’t seem to affect the GI much if at all despite marketing that claims

Yeah…I’ve been there too and corrected myself here (still unsure about all that DE marketing):

Maltodextrin or Glucose for fueling?

Interestingly I did not find some scientific studies relating DE numbers of maltodextrin to digestion or backing the common assumption of high DE = faster digestion. It’s just those usual info/commercial sites about MD. Still wrapping my head around what you cited from the article. Thanks for pointing that out and giving something to think about! Would love to hear on the podcast if @chad or @Jonathan or @Nate_Pearson have experience with individual maltodextrin mixes and if they distinguish D…

Origin point of that discussion was

Maltodextrin or Glucose for fueling?

Why do you use glucose as well (just asking!)? I have maltodextrin (MD) powder (DE 6) and fructose. For shorter but intense workouts I will use one scoop of MD (around 25 grams) and a pinch of salt into my water bottle and will mix it with a filtered coffee for a better taste. Second bottle will be just water but I won’t usually drink it whole. For 1.5-2 hours workouts I will put two scoops of MD into my first bottle and one into the second. Some salt and of course the filtered coffee into the f…