Anybody tried this stuff? No personal interest, just saw it pop up in my IG feed…
Blockquote Formula 369 is a simple and cost effective way to give endurance athletes exactly what they need in a drink mix, and nothing more. A lack of calories often holds athletes back from performing at their best, but with up to 90 grams of carbohydrates in a bottle, Formula 369 will keep you going strong until you hit the stop button. With each scoop containing 30 grams of carbs, you can mix 30, 60, or 90 grams of carbs per bottle to suit your needs. Our 1:1 ratio of glucose to fructose utilizes 2 energy pathways, allowing you to absorb the maximal amount of carbs per hour, without stomach discomfort. We cut out everything that doesn’t contribute to performance, so we can give you more product, at a lower cost. Formula 369 is vegan friendly, allergen free, and unflavored. This 5lb bag has 73 servings which can be mixed a 1, 2, or 3 scoops in a bottle.
I mean, they are offering a convenience service and are pretty transparent, so… I guess it is just as simple as “do I pay someone to make it easy or save some bucks and do it myself…”
Also, at 1-1 ratio you can just use sucrose if you can handle the sweetness.
Also doesn’t look like any flavoring, which I honestly think is the hard part of these drinks.
It is cheaper than other brands (some of which are crazy expensive), but reference for ‘value’ is gatorade powder + sucrose + sodium citrate. Flavor isn’t going to win any awards, but it’s not awful, and it is awfully cheap
Yeah my home recipe is 1:1:1 Gatorade powder, Maltodextrin powder, table sugar. Sodium citrate for salt, amount variable by how hot out it is. Got an enormous jug of Maltodextrin powder for cheap. Its easy to measure and mix, tastes ok, does the job performance-wise
Hello, I am the creator of Formula 369 and wanted to add a few things from my perspective.
I 100% agree that you could buy these ingredients and make your own mix. That’s what I was doing for 2 years before I launched my product. But I also know the majority of people out there would rather pay a fair price to have it shipped to their door, blended and dosed correctly, with a scoop for easy measuring. I have nothing wrong with those that want to make their own mixes and applaud them for their initiative, but for the rest that don’t want the hassle, Formula 369 is here.
Also, I just priced out the cheapest maltodextrin and fructose on Amazon and even doing it yourself you would not save any money vs. my 5 pound bags.
I created Formula 369 because I saw the outrageous price of the other high carb drink mixes out there like Maurten, Beta Fuel, Infinite, Skratch, Osmo, Flow Formulas, Tailwind, and even Gatorade Endurance formula. All these products contained unnecessary ingredients that just add cost and don’t contribute to performance, so I reduced my formula down to only what contributes to performance, and made it half the cost of the big brands.
Yes you could mix gatorade, sugar, maltodextrin, and guess at the glucose to fructose ratio, but the taste of Gatorade alone is already sickly sweet and making it even sweeter is a deal breaker for most people. This is especially true if you are shooting for 90-120g of carbs per 24 oz bottle.
Do what works for you, and if you want a cheaper alternative to the products I mentioned above, then try Formula 369.
Hi @Formula369, is there a lower absorption latency if I ingest glucose and fructose separately than if I ingest them as part of a larger sugary thing, like sucrose or the custom designer structures the big companies develop? Or is that enzyme process a non issue if you’re in an endurance event and staying on top of it anyway?
If I’m still taking in sucrose on hour 4, am I asking too much of the intestine verses straight up glucose and fructose? Or do we have enzymes for days in there and they’re like, “no worries, this is job security”?
I’m asking you/here because you seem to get paid to science and I get paid to draw pictures. I don’t know what everyone else does.
Cheers
(Edit - by the way, the product looks good. It’s actually a little less than what I pay for separates right now but with shipping it’s about the same, but premixed which is nice)
@DXR I am not aware of enzymes being a rate limiting factor during long bouts of exercise. The only limiter I am aware of are the amount of transporters (SGLT1 and GLUT5) that are available to transport glucose and fructose into the blood stream. These are maxed out at around 60g/hour for each glucose and fructose when co-ingested.
Bonded glucose/fructose does go through one extra enzymatic process to break them down into separate molecules, but I don’t think that process significantly slows down the absorption process.
The other thing to be aware of though is that the better trained an athlete is, the more glycogen they will be able to store, and consume. So training the gut is important when trying to ingest high amounts of carbohydrate per hour, ie. 90+.
Thank you. Yeah, my gut doesn’t love fructose but I mix it in during the shorter mid-week sessions so I’m OK on the long, intense weekend racey club rides.
So far so good up to 100g/hr as long as I keep the gut acquainted with fructose.
