Basic Supplements Hydration - Pineapple Burst, 100g (20 Serves)

Basic Supplements Hydration - Watermelon, 100g (20 Serves) is an electrolyte powder from Basic Supplements built for anyone who trains hard or spends real time in the heat and loses more fluid than a glass of water alone can replace. It sits in the Electrolytes category, and its job is narrow: restock what sweat takes out. Each 5g scoop mixes into a bottle in seconds and carries 650mg of chloride and 600mg of sodium, the two minerals your body loses fastest, at just 5 calories per serve.

How Basic Supplements Electrolytes works

Sodium and chloride are the main drivers of fluid balance in your body. Sodium sits mostly outside your cells and chloride follows it, and together they create the osmotic pull that keeps water in your bloodstream and around your muscles rather than lost through sweat. When you train hard or spend time in the heat, you lose both minerals through perspiration, and replacing them supports the fluid balance that plain water alone struggles to hold.

Potassium and magnesium work on a different part of the system. Potassium helps generate the electrical signal that fires a nerve impulse and tells a muscle to contract, while magnesium supports the relaxation phase that follows and plays a role in normal enzyme function throughout the body. Calcium is involved in that same contraction cycle. Basic Supplements Hydration - Watermelon combines all five of these minerals, plus phosphate, in one 5g scoop, so you are not relying on food timing alone to restock them mid-session.

Why choose Basic Supplements Hydration

Basic Supplements Hydration - Watermelon is priced at $54.45 for a 100g tub that runs to 20 serves, which works out to roughly $2.72 a scoop for a full electrolyte dose. That is worth knowing if you are used to comparing it against a bottled sports drink, where you pay for sugar and colouring as much as for the minerals themselves. A few details set this formula apart from a generic mix:

• Just 1g of total carbohydrate and zero added sugar per serve, which fits the keto and low-carb facets this product is built around.
• Magnesium arrives as magnesium citrate and calcium as tricalcium phosphate, both named on the ingredient panel rather than folded into an unlabelled mineral blend.
• Chloride and sodium cover 30% and 26% of daily value per serve respectively, with 110mg of phosphate rounding out the mineral profile.

The watermelon flavour gets its taste from natural flavour, with beet powder and caramel powder used for colour and sucralose used to sweeten it instead of sugar, which is how it holds to 5 calories per serve. If watermelon is not what you are after, Basic Supplements Hydration also comes in a pineapple burst flavour, so you can switch things up without changing brands.

Getting the most from it

It works whenever fluid loss is the issue, on training days and on rest days alike. Mix a scoop into your water bottle before a long session at the gym or after a hot day outside, whenever a plain glass of water is not cutting it. Because it carries no caffeine or stimulants, you can take it any time without it clashing with a pre-workout you already use before training.

It also pairs well elsewhere in a routine. Stack it alongside creatine, since creatine draws water into muscle cells and the extra sodium and potassium here help support that shift, or mix it into a post-session protein shake to cover rebuilding and rehydration together. Browse the wider electrolytes range at NZ Supps and you will find Basic Supplements Hydration sitting among the sugar-free, stim-free options built for daily use rather than occasional treats.