Maple-Star Anise Cranberry Sports Drink


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Recipe — Sports Drink with Cranberry, Maple and Star Anise
Preparation Time:
8 portions
Metric Imperial

Ingredients

  • 3 cups cranberry juice (100% juice)
  • 5 cups water
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 tablespoons maple syrup (preferably dark syrup for its robust taste)
  • 1 star anise

Method

  1. Mix together all the ingredients.
  2. Leave to infuse for one hour.
  3. Refrigerate.

While training for more than 60 minutes, it is important to provide your muscles with carbohydrates in order to maintain good energy levels, especially if your last meal was more than two hours before your physical activity or if your workout is particularly intense. For workouts of more than one hour, make sure you bring along a flask filled with this drink to get the recommended 30-60 g of carbohydrates you need. This maple syrup-based energy drink recipe provides sugars that are easily absorbed by your muscles as well as electrolytes (sodium and potassium) to replace those that you sweat out. This is a homemade energy drink with no artificial colours, flavours or preservatives. A home-grown, pure and natural energy source!Per 500 ml portion: 114 calories; 0 g protein; 0 g fat; 30 g carbohydrates; 0 g fibre.

The Quebec Maple Syrup Producers are not in any way responsible for the identification or presence of allergens in recipes or for the classification of any recipe as vegetarian or vegan.

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Maple syrup comes in four classifications, according to colour and taste.

At the start of sugaring season, syrup is generally clear, with a lightly sweet taste. It becomes darker and caramelized as the season goes on.

An unopened can of maple syrup keeps for many years.

Once the can is opened, syrup should be kept in an airtight container in a cool place.

100% pure maple butter contains no butter or dairy.

Like all 100% pure maple products, maple butter comes from the sap of the maple tree… and that’s all.