Cheapozade
November 11, 2006 
Forget Lucozade and other energy drinks, they’re a blatant rip-off for people with more money than sense. Not only that, they’re a huge waste of packaging that inevitably ends up in landfill and thus are bad for the environment like pretty much everything else the average person buys.
So, the solution? Glucose mixed with water. Pun definitely intended.
It’s called cheapozade, and is also known as skintozade, punkozade, homemadeozade and DIY-o-zade amongst other names. Here are a couple of recipes for all you skint mofos.
Cheapozade 1 ingredients: Glucose powder, apple juice, water
In your 1 litre drinks bottle put 350ml apple juice, then about 6 spoons of glucose powder. Top up with tap water .
Cheapozade 2 ingredients: 2 Limes, glucose powder, water, a barman.
In your 1 litre drinks bottle, put two slices of lime, then squeeze the rest of the lime and put the juice into the bottle. Add about 6 spoons of glucose powder. Top up halfway with tap water. Now ask the barman for a pint of soda water, and top your bottle up with it. Alternatively, take the environmentally damaging option and buy some bottled soda water from the shop.
Essentially it’s just sugar, water and some fruit juice for flavour. The lime cheapozade is really nice and it’s definitely worth adding soda water for the fizz. Just remember to squeeze some air out of the drink bottle every time you close it. (it won’t explode if you don’t, but the sound of pressurised carbon dioxide leaking can be annoying).
the soda water i read on another site can slow the digestion of the glucose into the stream so it might be better on the cheapozade 2 to use just plain water in the whole thing and on a bike i learned the hard way that a fizzy drink is only fizzy till you open your bottle.
I read the opposite… I was told that sugar enters the bloodstream more quickly from fizzy drinks… I could be wrong though
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My version of Cheapozade 2 uses lime cordial for the flavouring. It’s easier than (although not as nice as) juicing real limes, but gives you that sour edge which helps offset the sweetness of the sugar. Plus, i go with sucrose instead of glucose – the science seems to indicate it’s absorbed just as fast as glucose, due to highly active sucrases on the surface of gut cells, and it should even get into the gut quicker, because it has a lower osmotic potential (like the maltodextrin you use in Cheapozade Plus).
Also, when you say ’spoon’, that’s a teaspoon, right?