Drink Mix 320 CAF 100

Maurten Drink Mix 320 CAF 100 is a drink mix with 80 g of carbohydrate, 245 mg of sodium and 100 mg of caffeine per serving. It scores 92/100 on the CarbRate Science Score, helped by a dual-source glucose and fructose blend that raises how much carbohydrate the gut can absorb per hour. At 60 g of carbs per hour that is about one serving an hour.

Who Drink Mix 320 CAF 100 suits

Runners fueling at 60 g of carbohydrate per hour or more. The glucose plus fructose blend uses two absorption pathways, so more of what you swallow gets used and less sits in the stomach.

Runners who want fewer servings to carry. At 80 g per serving, an hour at 90 g/hr is about one serving, which matters over a marathon or ultra where pocket space and hand-offs are real limits.

Runners who use caffeine during a race. 100 mg per serving is a large dose; one serving is enough for most people, and it is best used in the second half rather than every hour.

Runners with dietary limits: it is vegan according to the manufacturer.

How to use it in a race

Start early. Take the first serving 15 to 20 minutes into the race, before you feel you need it, and repeat on a fixed clock. At 60 g/hr that is about one serving per hour; at 90 g/hr it is about one.

Drink texture, so it goes down without much water. Still sip at aid stations; carbohydrate absorbs faster when the stomach has fluid to work with.

Practice it on long runs at race intensity before you race on it. Gut tolerance is trained; a fuel that felt fine at easy pace can behave differently at marathon effort.

Cost at 60 g/hr works out to about $3.00 per hour at list price, or roughly $11 for a three-and-a-half hour marathon.

Servings per hour assume the 80 g per serving on the label. The finder sets your own g/hr target from race distance, sweat and gut.

Why it scores what it does

Computed from verified label data with the same evidence rules for every product. Retailer relationships play no part in the score.

If this one works, try these next

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How it went for runners like you

No reports yet. If you have raced or trained on this one, thirty seconds from you is the first data point for the next runner with your gut and your conditions.

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