Dextrose powder

•  100% Dextrose powder.
•  Monohydrate form, better dissolution.
•  No additions.
•  Suitable for vegans and vegetarians. 

What is Dextrose?

Dextrose Powder by RawSeries is a powered food of Dextrose monohydrate.

Dextrose is glucose with a linear rather than a cyclic hydrocarbon chain; it provides a high amount of energy (4kcal/g) and is rapidly absorbed in the gut, with a Glycaemic Index of 100.

Dextrose Powder properties

Carbohydrates

•  Carbohydrates contribute to the recovery of normal muscle function (contraction) after high intensity or long duration physical exercise leading to muscle fatigue and depletion of stored glycogen in skeletal muscles.¹

Why take Dextrose powder?

Dextrose

Dextrose is a monosaccharide, a simple carbohydrate.

Absorption

'The Glycaemic Index, which is a nutritional property of carbohydrate-rich foods, is defined as the increase in the area under the blood glucose response curve after consuming a 50g serving of glycaemic carbohydrate from a food test expressed as the percentage response to the same amount of carbohydrate from a standard reference taken by the same subject' (FAO/WHO, 1998 cited in EFSA 2010).

The reference for the glycaemic index is always glucose (dextrose), with a value of 100, a high glycaemic index showing that its absorption is rapid.

Why buy Dextrose in HSN?

100% Pure

HSN's product is a food, 100% Dextrose monohydrate, and contains no other ingredients (or additives) in its composition.

Less sweet than sugar

One of the virtues of 100% pure dextrose is that its sweetening value is half that of table sugar.

Monohydrate, better solubility

The presentation of the food is dextrose monohydrate (C6H12O6 x H2O).

The addition of a water molecule to dextrose reduces its moisture uptake than in anhydrous form, making it easier to preserve and increasing the shelf life of the food.

Similarly, dextrose monohydrate improves its solubility profile in polar media (such as water or juices), so it dissolves instantly.

Forget about finding sediment in your intra-workout bottle!

Vegan

Dextrose is obtained from the degradation of starch present in maize.

Starch is a huge polymer made up of thousands of glucose units, so its hydrolysis releases dextrose which can then be processed into food.

How does Dextrose taste?

Dextrose has an intensely sweet taste.

Which combine Dextrose with?

Goes great with:

•  Fructose.
•  Evolytes powder.

Bibliographical references

•  EFSA (2010). Scientific Opinion on the substantiation of health claims related to carbohydrates that induce low/reduced glycaemic responses (ID 474, 475, 483, 484) and carbohydrates with a low glycaemic index (ID 480, 481, 482, 1300) pursuant to Article 13(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006. EFSA Journal 8(2):1491.

Scientific bibliography

•  Boron, W., Boulpaep, E. (Eds.) (2017). Medical physiology: a cellular and molecular approach. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders/Elsevier.
•  Dahl, H. A., Rodahl, K., Stromme, S. B., & Åstrand, P.-O. (2003). Textbook of work physiology: physiological bases of exercise (4th ed.).
•  Jeukendrup, A. (2014). A step towards personalized sports nutrition: carbohydrate intake during exercise. Sports Medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 44 Suppl 1(Suppl 1), S25-33.
•  Thomas, D. T., Erdman, K. A., & Burke, L. M. (2016). American College of Sports Medicine Joint Position Statement. Nutrition and Athletic Performance. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 48(3), 543–568.

¹ The beneficial effect is obtained by consuming carbohydrates from all sources at a total intake of 4 g per kg body weight, in doses taken within four hours (or at most six hours) after the end of high intensity or long duration physical exercise leading to muscle fatigue and depletion of stored glycogen in skeletal muscles.