Want more flavor choices than apple cinnamon for your energy gels? Here’s another recipe that allows you to customize that flavor to your taste.
Last time we made an energy gel recipe, it used a fruit juice base for the liquid. While the results were tasty, the flavor combinations are limited. This recipe makes a plain energy gel that you can customize with any flavor of your choice.
Makes:
10 Servings
Ingredients:
250ml Water
200g Maltodextrin
50g Fructose
3 1/2 tsp Pectin
1 tsp Ball brand fruit fresh
Flavor extracts to taste
Directions:
1. Boil the water over medium heat.
2. Turn the heat down to low and slowly add the maltodextrin and fructose to the water.
3. Whisk the mixture until it has completely dissolved. There will be a bit of foam floating on the top, but the liquid should be clear.
4. Whisk in the Fruit-Fresh and the pectin and let simmer for another minute
5. Cool the mixture down to room temperature.
6. Add any mixture of flavor extracts you want.
For this version of energy gel, some fructose is needed to replace the sugar provided by the apple juice in our previous recipe. Without fructose, the gel is a bit bitter and not very palatable.
The flavor extracts we used were from Nature’s Flavors. While we preferred the fruit juice version of the gel, flavor extracts offer the ability to mix any flavor combination you want.
