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Sports beverages maintain physiological homeostasis during exercise with thermal stress despite gastric empty rates more efficient than water. During an exercise sports drinks improve one's endurance and performance as a result of the maintained blood glucose at higher levels for oxidization by muscles. There are two main differences between two popular sports drinks,Powerade and Gatorade. These two differences are the amount of sodium and sugar. Sodium helps keep water in the blood, this is why it is crucial for it to be in sports drinks. Sugar delivers sugar into the your blood stream, so the more sugar you consume from a sports drink the slower the rate water enters the blood. Gatorade has 450mg/L of sodium. Powerade has 225mg/L of sodium. Gatorade does a better job of replacing sweat than Powerade. Gatorade has 14g of sugar/ 240 ml serving or 6 g/100ml or 6%. Powerade has 8% of sodium. According to American College of Sports Medicine they recommend that beverages with 4-8% of sugar are enough to provide your body with enough sugar. This makes Gatorade and Powerade meet the standard for the amount of sugar loss during exercise.