Where to get unflavored dextrose?

[imported_elle11]

I'm trying to find an unflavored dextrose powder to add to HSN Driver, and all I can find is fruit flavored. I've checked several stores and online at enutrition. Where do you get your dextrose powder?

Thanks in advance, Elle

 

[Blade]

ProteinCustomizer.com

 

[imported_elle11]

Blade! Coming through as usual! Thanks.

Elle

 

[imported_elle11]

What do you think about the 15% creatine, 85% dextrose as opposed to the plain dextrose powder?

Elle

 

[Blade]

I personally like to have the freedom of adding dextrose in whichever dosage I want, as I use it both in carbups, post- and pre-workout drinks to varying degrees depending on dieting phase. I add creatine mostly to my pre-workout drinks. If the price is good, I guess it's ok though.

 

[thedon]

you can get it from any homebrew shop should be around .85c per kilo.

 

[imported_dmgwalsh]

is dextrose the same as maltodextrin? Dennis

 

[imported_edziu]

Slightly different. Not very sweet -- sometimes used to make carb-loading drinks that aren't overly sweet by balancing dextrose and maltodextrin.

Blade -- thanks for the link. Was looking for a dextrose source, myself. Nobody sells Smarties around here.

Footnote -- Protein Customizer also has info on maltodextrin and the differences. Handy site, and cheap, too!

E

 

[Gene]

http://www.cellar-homebrew.com/aidsadditives.asp

10 pounds for $8. That's about as cheap as they get, although I have seen cheaper.

 

[imported_edziu]

According to them, corn surgar is also called glucose or dextrose! I know corn syrup contains fructose. . . anybody have more info on "corn sugar?"

E

 

[imported_elle11]

I got this from various web sources:

corn sugar: Dextrose obtained from cornstarch.

corn syrup: Basically glucose with water. May have maltose. Dark corn syrup is just the regular syrup with some coloring.
Use wherever you would use straight glucose/dextrose.

glucose / dextrose / "blood sugar" / corn sugar
Glucose is a monosaccharide. This simple sugar is derivable from converted starches such as what happens when mashing malted grain. Sugar processors can make this sugar from a variety of sources - corn (maize), wheat, rice, potatoes, in short, anything with cheap starch can be a input into the process.


Elle

 

[Aaron_F]

Quote[/b] ]I know corn syrup contains fructose

your thinking of high fructose corn sryup, which has been altered to make it into fructose, corn is glucose/dextrose.

 

[Gene]

Dextrose = Grape sugar, Corn sugar, D-Glucose, D-(+)-Glucose, D(+)-Glucopyranose (if you buy from chemistry labs, only the D sugars).

Fructose (containing) = High fructose corn syrup (fructose/glucose mixture), corn syrup, corn syrup solids, corn sweetener, sucrose (½ fructose), fructose itself, fruit sweetener, etc... are all byproducts of corn production.