Maltodextrin or Glucose for fueling?

Why do you use glucose as well (just asking!)? I have maltodextrin (MD) powder (DE 6) and fructose. For shorter but intense workouts I will use one scoop of MD (around 25 grams) and a pinch of salt into my water bottle and will mix it with a filtered coffee for a better taste. Second bottle will be just water but I won’t usually drink it whole. For 1.5-2 hours workouts I will put two scoops of MD into my first bottle and one into the second. Some salt and of course the filtered coffee into the first one. A leave the fructose for even more demanding and longer rides outdoors. I must say I prefer the non-sweet taste of MD and hate the fructose taste. When I ran out of the MD I used cane sugar but it tasted awfully sweet and I had some GI problems for a day afterwards.

For a reference I use Jeukendrup’s recommendations for carb intake

1 Like