- Title
- Coconut water : a sports drink alternative?
- Creator
- O’Brien, Brendan; Bell, Leo; Hennessy, Declan; Denham, Joshua; Paton, Carl
- Date
- 2023
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/197684
- Identifier
- vital:18919
- Identifier
-
https://doi.org/10.3390/sports11090183
- Identifier
- ISSN:2075-4663 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Coconut water is used as an alternative to conventional sports drinks for hydration during endurance cycling; however, evidence supporting its use is limited. This study determined if drinking coconut water compared to a sports drink altered cycling performance and physiology. In a randomized crossover trial, 19 experienced male (n = 15) and female (n = 4) cyclists (age 30 ± 9 years, body mass 79 ± 11 kg, (Formula presented.) O2 peak 55 ± 8 mL·kg
- Publisher
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
- Relation
- Sports Vol. 11, no. 9 (2023), p.
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright © 2023 by the authors.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 4207 Sports science and exercise; Cycling; Endurance performance; Glucose; Hydration beverage; Potassium
- Full Text
- Reviewed
- Funder
- This project received funding and in-kind support from a company (LFE Beverages Pty Ltd., Research Master ID: 2014120036) that developed the experimental beverage. The company never traded and dissolved within months of the project’s completion.
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