Gatorade G2 Gatorade, front of pack

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Gatorade

G2 Gatorade

CModerate GoutMarket grade · Moderate · #6 of 13 sports and electrolyte drinks we grade

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Purine and sugar, by the numbers

Serving1 BOTTLE (360 ml)
Purine per servingunder 1 mg (0% of the 400 mg daily guide)
Purine per 100 gunder 1 mg
Purine before GoutSafe's weightingunder 1 mg per serving
Main purine sourcenone on the label
Fructose per serving3.5 g
Added sugar per serving6.8 g
Total sugar per serving7 g

Purine values come from each matched food's page on GoutSafe. Shares come from label order: US labels list ingredients by weight, so the second ingredient is at most half the product, and anything after "2% or less" is at most 2%. The worst case fills the most purine-dense ingredients to their full share first, until the shares reach the whole product, then applies GoutSafe's weighting by source, which counts plant purines at 0.3, dairy at 0 and organ meat at 1.3 because they raise uric acid by different amounts. The grade uses that worst case. How we rate.

Why it's rated C

  • Open Food Facts has no processing class for it, but its label lists sucralose, an ingredient Open Food Facts treats as a marker of ultra-processing (NOVA 4), and GoutSafe's rule keeps ultra-processed foods at Moderate (C) or below. Source on GoutSafe.
  • Under 1 mg of purine per serving, well under 1% of the 400 mg daily guide.
  • The Nutrition Facts panel lists 6.8 g of added sugar per serving, about half of it fructose. Source on GoutSafe.

Estimated from the ingredient label. Labels list ingredients by weight but rarely give amounts, so we grade on the most purine the label allows, which can read stricter than the real recipe and never safer. Sugar comes from the Nutrition Facts panel. How we rate.

What's on the label

Ingredients: WATER, SUGAR, CITRIC ACID, NATURAL FLAVOR, SODIUM CITRATE, SALT, MONOPOTASSIUM PHOSPHATE, SUCRALOSE, ACESULFAME POTASSIUM, BLUE 1.

Serving: 1 BOTTLE (360 ml). Added sugar: 6.8 g per serving. Label from USDA FoodData Central (record 2090828), dated 2021-10-28. UPC 052000120066. This label is over a year old and the recipe may have changed. Check the package.

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