Inside the new Natural recipe.

Natural’s updated development recipe keeps four ingredients and replaces the salt in the earlier concept with trisodium citrate. Here is the formula, the arithmetic and what still needs to be checked.

The four ingredients

Maltodextrin DE 17–19 is the development target. “DE” means dextrose equivalent, a measure of how far the starch has been broken down; it does not guarantee a single chain length. The manufacturer must confirm the actual ingredient specifications.

Near 1:0.8, rather than exactly 1:0.8

Divide fructose by maltodextrin: 42.5 ÷ 54 = 0.787. The recipe is therefore approximately 1:0.79 maltodextrin to fructose by ingredient weight. “Approx. 1:0.8” is a useful description; an exact 1:0.82 is not the result of these percentages.

The two carbohydrate sources use different intestinal transport pathways after maltodextrin is digested to glucose. That is the rationale for the combination, rather than a promise that every athlete will tolerate the same intake. Read the pathway explainer ↗

Powder weight is not a nutrition claim

A 75 g portion contains 40.500 + 31.875 = 72.375 g of carbohydrate ingredients. Actual nutritional carbohydrate depends on the suppliers’ composition data, including moisture and purity. The previously proposed 70.5 g figure cannot be confirmed from the recipe percentages alone.

Why the sodium-citrate form matters

The recipe puts 1.875 g of trisodium citrate into 75 g of powder. Calculated sodium is about 501 mg if the ingredient is pure anhydrous trisodium citrate, or 440 mg if it is pure trisodium citrate dihydrate. The latter contains water in its crystal structure, so sodium makes up less of its total weight. These are calculations from chemical composition, not finished-product measurements. [1, 2]

We will not publish a fixed 500 mg sodium claim until the supplier’s ingredient form and specification support it. Nor do we assume that one sodium amount suits every athlete or every hot day.

Four ingredients applies to Natural

Caffeine is not in this formula. Adding it as a separate ingredient would make five ingredients and change the percentages. Love Buzz’s caffeine dose, full recipe and nutrition therefore remain to be finalised separately.

What happens before launch?

The remaining work is to confirm food-grade ingredient specifications, nutrition calculations, blend uniformity, allergens, serving and dilution instructions, and final labelling. Sensory and tolerance testing are also needed before claims about taste or comfort can be supported. A 25 g calculation does not prove that an unvalidated scoop holds 25 g.

We are not publishing promises of zero salty taste, tooth-enamel protection, guaranteed gut comfort or a performance advantage over another brand. Those outcomes cannot be read directly from an ingredient list.