College and professional athletes are often told to drink pickle juice to prevent cramped muscles, and it is proven to work much better than traditional sports drinks. Pickle juice is simply water, vinegar, salt, and calcium chloride, which is essentially highly absorbent sodium. Pickle juice has somewhere between 15 and 30 times more electrolytes than popular sports drinks, such as Powerade and Gatorade, and a lot less headache-causing sugars. If you’re not big on pickle juice, try picked food items such as sauerkraut and pickled ginger. |