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Is smashing a keyboard with my fingers a high-impact workout?<\/p>\n
It sounds high-impact because when I hit my keys, it\u2019s like I\u2019m a Foley artist creating the footsteps of a centipede. Or I\u2019m like Mozart doing Rondo alla Turca from Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331 \u2014 but on a keyboard, typing silly wordplay, the word \u201cdelicious\u201d way too much, and classical music references that might be incorrect.<\/p>\n
Does a keyboard jockey like me need electrolytes to replace those lost from heavy typing? It\u2019s questionable whether I lost any. But if I did, I can now get them from Gatorade in a lower sugar form \u2014 75% less sugar than regular Gatorade, to be exact.<\/p>\n
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Gatorade Lower Sugar currently comes in four flavors \u2014 Fruit Punch, Lemonade, Rain Berry, and Glacier Cherry, because of course, there\u2019s always a Glacier flavor. I ended up with Fruit Punch. They have no artificial flavors, sweeteners, or colors. And don\u2019t get them confused with Gatorade Zero, Gatorade G2, Gatorade Fit<\/a>, or whatever other lower or zero sugar varieties the Gatorade scientists have dreamed up over the years. Gatorade Lower Sugar is a new product that uses the sweetener combination du jour \u2014 sugar and stevia \u2014 which you\u2019ve also seen recently in the Pepsi Prebiotic Colas.<\/p>\n Also, what\u2019s the deal with the super self-explanatory name? No Gatorade LS. No Gatorade 3. It\u2019s like no one had a good idea, so they just went literal and called it a day.<\/p>\n For this review, I felt compelled to compare it with the original Gatorade and the zero-sugar version \u2014 partly for science, and partly because my fingers probably need hydration from writing this. So I did a blind taste test, and it turns out I preferred Gatorade Lower Sugar over Gatorade Zero and regular Gatorade.<\/p>\n The original Gatorade Fruit Punch has a slightly thicker texture than the others, but its fruit punch flavor didn\u2019t punch as hard and was surprisingly less sweet than I expected. Gatorade Zero had a thinner texture, but its fruit punch flavor hit harder, with a nice sweetness from the sucralose and acesulfame potassium. There\u2019s a hint of artificial sweetener aftertaste, but it\u2019s one I don\u2019t mind.<\/p>\n Gatorade Lower Sugar stood out as my favorite of the three. Across multiple blind taste tests, it consistently tasted the best, and it\u2019s genuinely difficult to tell it was sweetened with sugar and stevia. Without the regular Gatorade on hand for comparison, I could easily be convinced this was the original. The only characteristic that fell short of the other two was its color, but that\u2019s simply the absence of artificial dyes.<\/p>\n Speaking of sugar and stevia \u2014 that combination was the sweetener du jour several years ago, too. Remember Pepsi True<\/a> and Coca-Cola Life<\/a>? Decent tasting colas that didn\u2019t last, possibly because the stevia was noticeable enough to give them a slight bitterness. It seems PepsiCo has since figured out how to balance the two sweeteners, because whatever they\u2019re doing here works.<\/p>\n Now, if you\u2019ll excuse me, I\u2019m going to work up a sweat typing out these nutrition facts.<\/p>\n Purchased Price:<\/strong> $2.39 Is smashing a keyboard with my fingers a high-impact workout? It sounds high-impact because when I hit my keys, it\u2019s like I\u2019m a Foley artist creating the footsteps of a centipede. Or I\u2019m like Mozart doing Rondo alla Turca from Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331 \u2014 but on a keyboard, typing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1440],"tags":[1545,1699,1700],"class_list":["post-76227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-beverage","tag-gatorade","tag-sports-drink"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":76043,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2026\/03\/03\/spotted-gatorade-lower-sugar-sports-drinks\/","url_meta":{"origin":76227,"position":0},"title":"SPOTTED: Gatorade Lower Sugar Sports Drinks","author":"Marvo","date":"March 3, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"(Spotted by Rachel J at Safeway.) 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\nSize:<\/strong> 28 fl oz bottle
\nPurchased at:<\/strong> Target
\nRating:<\/strong> 8 out of 10
\nNutrition Facts:<\/strong> (28 fl oz) 50 calories, 0 grams of fat, 380 milligrams of sodium, 11 grams of carbohydrates, 11 grams of sugar (including 11 grams of added sugar), and 0 grams of protein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"