How are people getting 100g+ carbs in a bottle?

[Dr_Alex_Harrison]

@JayD

If sucrose (i.e. table sugar) gets easily broken down into glucose and fructose in the gut then that would be a one to one ratio and we wouldn’t ever have to have any of these discussions! Table sugar is the most easily available sugar to all of us we could simply add it to water. Unfortunately it doesn’t work like that.

Good news! It does work like that! And y’all literally can just dump sugar in a bottle. Save yourself some money. Not kidding.

GONZALEZ_2017_Glucose plus fructose ingestion for post-exercise recovery-Greater than the sum of its parts.pdf (1016.7 KB)

With utmost respect for Dr. Asker Jeukendrup who is a legend and pioneer in the field of intra-workout fueling strategy, that article, and some of the recommendations that stem from his earlier work that continue to make their way into position stands of the ISSN are probably leaving vast swaths of cyclists and triathletes:

1. Underfueled.

2. With an overemphasis on complexity of beverage (malto plus fruc plus sucrose plus gluc confusion)

3. Overconsuming glucose slightly, and vastly underconsuming fructose.

This is how I do it: (I’m cheap)
Saving Money as an Endurance Athlete

More info on how to make it work better:
When and How to Use High-Carb Fueling