Skratch Labs Recovery Sport Drink Mix is designed to rapidly refuel, rehydrate, and rebuild you when you're completely empty after your longest and hardest workouts.
It's for those times when you're totally cooked and you don't have a personal chef to hand you a burrito or the time to make one yourself.
In technical terms, the Recovery Sport Drink Mix is a 4-to-1 ratio of carbohydrate to protein that's designed to bring your blood sugar up fast. This causes the hormone insulin to spike, which is key to getting the sugar, electrolytes, fat, and protein in the Recovery Sport Drink Mix back into muscle - and fast.
In layman's terms, the Recovery Sport Drink Mix is really sweet milk - like chocolate milk, but without a tongue-twisting list of excess ingredients and with a more optimized macronutrient profile for restoring muscle glycogen (aka, refueling).
But, the real magic is that the Sport Recovery Drink Mix actually tastes great. So great, that you might want to drink it all the time. The problem is that while there's a scientific rationale for the high amount of sugar in the formula, it's not an amount that's healthy to consume if you just sat on your butt all day. So, in other words, earn it. They care too much for you not to.
Also, they know milk bends some people because they're lactose intolerant, so they've added lactase to digest all the milk sugar. Skratch also knows that after a super hard workout, your gut can be pretty fubarred, so they also added the probiotic bacillus coagulans 30 to make things better.
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Mfg PartNum: SRM-CH-1200g | |
Food Type: Powder | |
Food Use: Recovery | |
Most of us should avoid the hype of recovery foods/drinks if only doing moderate effort activities and duration up to 90 minutes. It's those harder/longer efforts where all the science behind these recovery products kicks in and they actually deliver benefits, not just calories. I've rotated through a few similar products to this over the years for post-ride recovery any time I'm out 2 hours or more, and tend to keep coming back to this brand/flavor. Tastes great and does the job--I sleep better, bounce back a bit more quickly.
Chocolate flavor tastes great and seems to keep the aches away the day after a long ride. The non-vegan flavors have lactase, and seems lactose-free to me which is a huge convenience and digestion is easy, which is key while cooling down. I was a little skeptical of "recovery drinks" but I'm a fan of this one now.
I mix this in a shaker bottle for post workout recovery. It blends well without too many clumps with water. I have been fairly successful mixing it with milk sometimes too. Tastes good and I use it as a healthy chocolate drink that is also getting me some protein.
