HUMAN NUTRITION

Detailed explanation-1: -Sports drinks are advertised to replenish glucose, fluids, and electrolytes (sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium) lost during strenuous exercise as well as to enhance endurance.

Detailed explanation-2: -The addition of potassium to sports drinks helps maintain electrolyte balance and can assist with muscle contraction during exercise. Flavour is an important feature of sports drinks that helps to increase voluntary fluid intake (compared to water) during or after exercise.

Detailed explanation-3: -"There’s a whole science to how the ingredients found in sports drinks help improve performance. In addition to water, sports drinks contain electrolytes and carbohydrates-both of which become important when you’re sweating a lot or need to quickly refill your energy stores, ‘’ says Willingham.