Maurten keeps refuelling simple with a focus on getting you the carbohydrates you need.
Drinking carbohydrate solutions has been proven to increased performance during exercise, however most carbohydrate drinks can cause GI distress and slower gastric emptying due to high concentration of sugar.
In 2015, Maurten created a new and easier way to digest sports fuels, through encapsulating carbohydrates in hydrogels. One year later, their sports fuels had become so popular that some of the world's best marathoners were fuelling their training sessions and competitions with Maurten technology.
Their hydrogel patented technology used in all Maurten sport drinks and gels provides the perfect amount of carbohydrates without causing any GI distress. Using only natural ingredients, no artificial flavours or colours, or preservatives, Maurten removes all unnecessary ingredients that don’t aid your performance.
HYDROGEL. WHAT IS IT?
Widely used within the food industry as thickeners or structurants. A hydrogel is a biopolymer, simply put, it looks and behaves a bit like a kitchen sponge. With its water-based structure and miniscule pores it has the ability to hold water.
Maurten have researched and developed a method to build hydrogels with natural food ingredients. And they’ve built the structure with the most efficient source of fuel around – carbohydrates.
The hydrogel in Maurten’s energy drink mix are built from the combination of Alginate and Pectin.
Alginate is found and extracted from the cell walls of brown algae. Whereas Pectin is found in fruits and vegetables such as apples, lemons, carrots, and tomatoes.
Both of these dietary fibres have been used for years within the food industry. Maurten have combined them both under perfect conditions to form a pH-sensitive hydrogel. This means once your drink mix reaches your stomach, it reacts with the acidity of the stomach and converts into a hydrogel, protecting the carbohydrates.
The hydrogel will then dissolve in the intestine, releasing the carbohydrates, salt and water which is then absorbed by the body.
DRINK MIX: HOW IT WORKS?
Mix the Drink Mix 320 or 160 with water, and you’ll have a liquid energy drink containing carbohydrates.
The drink instantly converts to hydrogel when it is in contact with the acidity of the stomach, protecting the carbohydrates in hydrogel. The hydrogel then enables a smooth transportation through the stomach to the intestine where the water, salt and carbohydrates are absorbed by the body.
GEL: HOW IT WORKS?
The GEL is a premade hydrogel however, it still relies on the same concept as the drink mixes, where the hydrogel technology enables a smooth transportation of carbohydrates through the stomach to the intestine where the carbohydrates are then absorbed into the body.
In the case of Maurten’s drinks, the hydrogel is formed inside the stomach. Whereas this is different with the GEL, as it is already a hydrogel, formed in production by combining sodium alginate and calcium carbonate.
