Introducing 'Super Carbs' a patented formula that increases carbohydrate utilisation as a fuel to give you improved performance, whatever your sport.
How Super Carb's works
There are two bottlenecks limiting the amount of carbohydrate that reaches your working muscles. Firstly it's important to note that the maximum amount of carbohydrate your body can absorb each hour is not the same as the amount you can swallow. You can swallow a very large amount of carbohydrate per hour but your body can only absorb a limited amount of it.
The first bottleneck:
Sports drinks for general use are typically mixed at 5% to 6% carbohydrate concentration. Some time ago it was discovered that a form of carbohydrate called glucose polymers (also known as maltodextrins) were better at gastric emptying than simple sugars (sucrose, dextrose, glucose etc). Specialist energy drinks based on glucose polymers became available around 10 years ago. These could be mixed at a concentration of 10%, without negative effects on stomach emptying. High5 was one of the first companies to use maltodextrins in its award-winning EnergySource range of products.
How quickly drinks empty from the stomach, is not however the main limiting factor when considering how much carbohydrate can be obtained from drinks. The real limit is further down the digestive tract.
The Second bottleneck:
The real bottle neck that limits the maximum amount of carbohydrate absorbed per hour into the body: is the speed with which carbohydrate is transported across the intestine and into the blood stream.
a. Conventional Carbohydrates: Maltodextrins, maltose, dextrose and glucose are conventional carbohydrates. These are the main ingredients in most sports and energy drinks. Research shows that the maximum rate of absorption of these types of carbohydrates is around 60g per hour.
b. Super Carb's: this is an advanced new carbohydrate formulation, it contains 2-PARTS conventional carbohydrate (maltodextrin) and 1-PART of a unique blend of booster-carbohydrates combined with a special electrolyte formulation. The 2-PARTS conventional carbohydrate in Super Carb's is transported across the gut wall at the rate of 60g per hour, as per normal sports drinks. The Super Carb's advantage is that an additional 30g of the booster-carbohydrates are also absorbed. Super Carb's therefore has a combined absorption rate of 90g per hour, as compared to a conventional energy drink formulation which is limited to 60g per hour.
It should be noted that, to achieve a maximum absorption rate of 60g of conventional carbohydrate per hour, you would need to consume 80g to ensure that the gut wall is totally saturated. Similary to absorb 90g of Super Carb's per hour you would need to consume 110g of product.
Information supplied by High5