Keto Strawberry & Lime Electrolyte Drink

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I've been making my own electrolyte drink for years, pretty much ever since I started following a low-carb diet and learnt about the keto-flu — the hard way!

Making your own electrolyte drink is super easy. Not only it's sugar free but it tastes so much better than any products I've tried. If you keep it simple without berries, the net carbs per serving will drop to only 1.7 grams.

Or you can add more flavour by using berries and make a batch of my Keto Blueberry & Lemon Electrolyte Drink, or this delicious Strawberry & Lime Electrolyte Drink.

In this recipe I used my Low-Carb Strawberry Syrup. It's smooth and creamy and apart from this keto electrolyte drink, it's great for mixing with just sparkling water, or drizzled over some Keto Vanilla Ice Cream. Yum!

Substitutions and Tips

If you're worried about the carb count, feel free to reduce the amount of strawberry syrup in this recipe. It's really easy to do that in our KetoDiet App! All of the meals that I share here are automatically posted in the App where you can clone and modify them to your liking.

Here are tips for making sugar-free electrolyte drink at home:

• Drink with meals (not on an empty stomach). Start with a cup per day and increase to no more than 2 cups per day to avoid stomach discomfort. Too much magnesium citrate causes loose stools so keep that in mind. One cup will provide about 50% of your daily magnesium and two cups will cover your daily needs.
• Instead of potassium chloride, you can use lite salt or cream of tartar. To read more about potassium supplements, check out this post: The Importance of Potassium in Low-Carb Diets.
  
• Instead of Erythritol, you can use other healthy low-carb sweeteners from this list, or skip the sweetener altogether.
• If you don't like sweeteners, they can be omitted.
• Nutrition facts in blueberries are estimated and counted partially (80%) as part of the pulp and the peel are discarded.

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Nutritional values (per serving, about 1 cup, 240 ml/ 8 fl oz)

Ingredients (makes about 6 cups)

• 1 ¹/₂ cups Low-Carb Strawberry Syrup (360 ml/ 12 fl oz)
• ¹/₂ cup fresh lime or lemon juice (120 ml/ 4 fl oz)
• 4 cups water (~ 1 l)
• ¹/₂ tsp potassium chloride
• ¹/₄ tsp sea salt
• 2 tbsp Natural Calm magnesium supplement (12 g/ 0.4 oz)
• Optional: 20-30 drops liquid Stevia or to taste
• lemon slices from 1 lemon or lime, to serve
• ice to serve

Instructions

1. Prepare the Low-Carb Strawberry Syrup. If you have this ready, it will only take 5 minutes to make this electrolyte drink recipe. Otherwise, you'll need about an hour to make the syrup and chill it. You will only need 1 ¹/₂ cups so store the remaining syrup in the fridge.
2. Juice the limes. Instead of limes you can use lemons.
3. Pour the water into a large jug or a large mason jar. Add the strawberry syrup.
4. Add the lime juice, potassium chloride, salt and magnesium powder.
5. Stir to combine (it will foam). Taste and add stevia or other low-carb sweetener if needed.
6. Place ice in a serving glass and pour in the strawberry lime electrolyte drink (about 1 cup/ 240 ml per serving).
7. Serve chilled over ice. Store the strawberry lime electrolyte drink in the fridge for up to 4 days. Stir before serving.

Ingredient nutritional breakdown (per serving, about 1 cup, 240 ml/ 8 fl oz)

Net carbs	Protein	Fat	Calories
Strawberries, fresh
2.8 g	0.3 g	0.2 g	16 kcal
Water, still
0 g	0 g	0 g	0 kcal
Allulose, natural low-carb sweetener
0.6 g	0 g	0 g	3 kcal
Water, still
0 g	0 g	0 g	0 kcal
Potassium chloride, supplement
0 g	0 g	0 g	0 kcal
Salt, sea salt
0 g	0 g	0 g	0 kcal
Natural Calm, magnesium supplement
0 g	0 g	0 g	0 kcal
Total per serving, about 1 cup, 240 ml/ 8 fl oz
3.5 g	0.3 g	0.2 g	19 kcal

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