ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2000
The effectiveness of commercially available sports drinks.
Review in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 2000. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
30 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Healthy Behavior and Sports Drinks: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2023Pooled it
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of carbohydrate benefits associated with randomized controlled competition-based performance trials.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2016Pooled it
- The efficacy of acute nutritional interventions on soccer skill performance.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2014Pooled it
- Pooled it
- Effect of different sports drink compositions on endurance performance and substrate oxidation: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover study in trained athletes.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2025Trial
- A randomized, cross-over trial assessing effects of beverage sodium concentration on plasma sodium concentration and plasma volume during prolonged exercise in the heat.European journal of applied physiology · 2023Trial
- The reproducibility of an endurance performance test in adolescent cyclists.European journal of applied physiology · 2005Trial
- Carbohydrate supplementation and alterations in neutrophils, and plasma cortisol and myoglobin concentration after intense exercise.European journal of applied physiology · 2005Trial
- Post-workout supplementation with CoQ10 and sports drink on exercise performance and muscle recovery after exercise in normal and overweight males.Sports medicine and health science · 2026Article
- A Review on In Vivo Research Dehydration Models and Application of Rehydration Strategies.Nutrients · 2024Review
- Osmolality and Tonicity of Isotonic Beverages.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Effects of ingestion of isomaltulose beverage on plasma volume and thermoregulatory responses during exercise in the heat.European journal of applied physiology · 2022Article
- Non-Alcoholic Beverages, Old and Novel, and Their Potential Effects on Human Health, with a Focus on Hydration and Cardiometabolic Health.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2020Review
- Isotonic Beverage Pigmented with Water-Dispersible Emulsion from Astaxanthin Oleoresin.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Impact of soft drinks to health and economy: a critical review.European archives of paediatric dentistry : official journal of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry · 2020Review
- A Hydrogel Drink With High Fructose Content Generates Higher Exogenous Carbohydrate Oxidation and Lower Dental Biofilm pH Compared to Two Other, Commercially Available, Carbohydrate Sports Drinks.Frontiers in nutrition · 2020Article
- Pre-Exercise Maltodextrin Ingestion and Transient Hypoglycemia in Cycling and Running.International journal of exercise science · 2020Article
- Pediatric Disorders of Orthostatic Intolerance.Pediatrics · 2018Review
- Review
- Normative data on regional sweat-sodium concentrations of professional male team-sport athletes.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2017Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
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Abstract
The purpose of this review is to evaluate the effectiveness of commercially available sports drinks by answering the questions: (i) will consuming a sports drink be beneficial to performance? and (ii) do different sports drinks vary in their effectiveness? To answer these questions we have considered the composition of commercially available sports drinks, examined the rationale for using them, and critically reviewed the vast number of studies that have investigated the effectiveness of sports drinks on performance. The focus is on the drinks that contain low carbohydrate concentrations (<10%) and are marketed for general consumption before and during exercise rather than those with carbohydrate concentrations >10%, which are intended for carbohydrate loading. Our conclusions are 3-fold. First, because of variations in drink composition and research design, much of the sports drinks research from the past cannot be applied directly to the effectiveness of currently available sports drinks. Secondly, in studies where a practical protocol has been used along with a currently available sports beverage, there is evidence to suggest that consuming a sports drinks will improve performance compared with consuming a placebo beverage. Finally, there is little evidence that any one sports drink is superior to any of the other beverages on the market.
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