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RE: [RC] Electrolyte palatability - Susan E. Garlinghouse, DVMSure, you could add some sugar. And yes, the basic salt is close enough to being the same between most endurance-formulated brands, the difference in palatability is the added flavoring, usually dextrose or maltose or some other sugar, plus how dilute the formulation is. If they object to the electrolytes, they may not like the flavoring, but more likely, a too-strong salt solution burns their mouth or tummy or whatever and they start getting unhappy about it, can't blame them. Think of the difference between you getting your daily salt quota by either using a salt shaker over darn near everything (which is pretty much what I do in life, I happily salt EVERYTHING), versus someone handing you a spoonful of straight salt and making you eat that. Ick. There's nothing particularly special about the PNW, except that it's more dilute per dose. You could just as well take another formula, and add more sugar of some sort so it doesn't wreak havoc. Usually, almost any brand, even the really strong ones like EnduraMax, are okay in really small doses if they're mixed with molasses or yogurt or whatever. Just think "salt shaker", not "shovelful". Does that make sense? Susan Garlinghouse, DVM -----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rides2far@xxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 5:00 AM To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [RC] Electrolyte palatability I switched from Enduralytes to Perform and Win this year after watching my friends horses take their electrolytes without fuss OK, this kinda gets me. *electrolytes* are the salts (Sodium Chloride & Potassium Chloride) & calcium that we are giving the horses. Period. So I'm assuming *salt* sort of tastes like SALT. It's not like there's a lot of different recipes for salt. Now, if a distributor puts something more palatable than SALT in there...like maybe...sugar...yes, I can see a horse liking it more but it's not the electrolytes that they're liking...it's what you diluted them with. If I want to dilute I can buy my own sugar or whatever a whole lot cheaper can I not? Straighten me out on this Ms. Garlinghouse. :-) Angie =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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