The choice of sport- and energy drinks, carbohydrate supplements etc. is enormous. The consumer has no easy choice when it comes to deciding which product he/she should use. It's easy to get lost in the maze of chemical terminology like osmolality, glucose polymers, maltodextrin, dextrose etc. etc.

We are now going to sort out once and for all the whole concept of energy drinks and it will become clear then why Vitargo^Ò is the better alternative than the other carbohydrate supplements on the market!

Carbohydrates in sport and energy drinks consist of broken down starches. On the contents label you will often find ingredients described as maltodextrin, glucose syrup, and dextrose(glucose). These mixtures can also be called for example hydrolysed starch, complex carbohydrates and glucose polymers.
Besides these ingredients, most products also contain ordinary sugar.

Starch is usually produced from corn, wheat or potatoes. Starch is a giant molecule that is built up of long chains of which glucose is the smallest part. This means that if starch is completely broken-down one is left with a glucose solution (called dextrose in powder form).

Maltodextrin and starch syrup are starch products which, relatively speaking, are well broken-down. The level of breakdown is described by the average molecular weight. To understand what this means we have taken the most common carbohydrate sources and listed their average molecular weight to serve as a guide:

Starch	< 250 000 000
VitargoÒ	500 000 - 700 000
Maltodextrin	1 000 - 1 0000
Starch syrup	250 - 1 000
Dextrose	180

Vitargo^Ò has an average molecular weight that is about 100 times greater than those carbohydrates currently being used in sport and energy drinks. Vitargo^Ò contains no simple carbohydrates or monosaccharides.

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