# Watered Down Gatorade is Where It's At

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watered-down-gatorade-is-where-its-at/814534>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 21, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watered-down-gatorade-is-where-its-at/814534 "2018-05-21T01:39:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watered-down-gatorade-is-where-its-at/814534/21 "2018-05-27T08:13:01Z")

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A colleague at work does this. He likes the taste of Gatorade and wants to hydrate himself, but doesn’t want all the calories of drinking Gatorade straight for the amount he wants to drink. So he dilutes it with water. I found it strange until I asked him why he did it, and it makes sense.

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