"Use it when there's no time to chew." For years, Allen Lim and Skratch Labs have preached fueling with real food, like their famous rice cakes or Anytime Energy Bars. Why? Because traditional fueling gels and drinks use carbohydrates that break down too fast to tolerate, causing gastrointestinal distress. But the folks at Skratch get it- you can’t always make or carry real food- and you want the sustained energy and power in a bottle.

The Skratch Sport Superfuel Drink Mix was created for endurance athletes who push so hard that they can’t easily take in enough calories to perform at their best. Skratch has discovered the answer in a better carbohydrate (with a funny name) that digests steadily, like real food does: Cluster Dextrin™. A Cluster Dextrin molecule packs in more calories per molecule, or more energy, than other fueling options. A Cluster Dextrin molecule has 60 to 70 glucose (sugar) units linked together. By comparison, maltodextrin, the most common carbohydrate used in gels and performance drinks, contains 3 to 20 glucose units linked together. One serving of Superfuel Sport Drink Mix provides 400 calories, enough energy to power your hardest efforts.

It’s great for when there’s no time to chew, or for when you just can’t stomach a thick, sticky gel. Cluster Dextrin is more soluble and drinkable so Skratch can get a ton of calories into Superfuel without turning it into sludge. Superfuel dilutes easily in water for a great tasting beverage that you can sip, gulp, or chug to get the calories, plus the electrolytes lost in sweat to fuel and hydrate your biggest days.

The team at Skratch tested this product for over 20 months with some of the world’s greatest athletes, including Gold Medalist Triathlete Gwen Jorgensen and the EF Education First Pro Cycling team. It has allowed these athletes to drink their fuel on some of the longest and most intense events in the world when they can’t eat real food, without causing gastrointestinal distress.