What was the first flavor of gatorade?!
What was the first flavor of gatorade?
Answers:
lemon-lime.
followed by orange, then other flavors.
Source(s):
History of Gatorade:
http://mrvaughn.wordpress.com/2006/09/04...
i think it was the lemon one.
I think it was cherry
proly the yellow 1 lemon...
Phlem, and they haven't changed it much!
It has to be Grape!
I think it was a lemon-lime flavor. I didn't like it, so I never drank it.
Friut Puch was the very first.
lemon lime
http://www.gatorade.com/history/born_in_...
This is the history of it.
I think it was Lemon-Lime
on on wikipedia it gives a history as well as a list of all the flavors and when they were introduced ...the original was lemon lime...
...october 1, 1965: with the approval of the gators’ head coach, ray graves, the colorless, awful-tasting concoction gets its first real test for effectiveness in the heat of competition, using the freshman squad as guinea pigs....
october 2, 1965: the drink gets a second test on the entire varsity football team, in 100 degree heat against a tough opponent, the lsu tigers. the gators win, 14-7.
november 1965: the winning potion gets a name. cade’s cola doesn’t quite cut it. jim free comes up with the perfect name for the...lemonade...the gators drink...."
http://www.amanet.org/books/catalog/0814...
"...by all accounts, the first batch tasted so bad none of the scientists could stomach it, but when cade’s wife suggested adding.....lemon....juice, the drink that would soon become known as gatorade was born...."
http://www.rgp.ufl.edu/publications/expl...
"...contary to popular belief, the university of florida did not come up with the sports drink that is now known as gatorade....
the team doctor for the fsu football team, dr. r.a. johnson, began producing a sports drink that he called 'seminole firewater' as early as 1962....
dr. johnson blended sugar and....lime....flavoring with electrolytes (salts) to help keep the players hydrated and to prevent cramping....
...in 1964 at an annual seminar of collegiate sports physicians and athletic trainers held in tallahasse, fl., a representative from the university of florida found out about the discovery that sodium and potassium keeps athletes better hydrated because it gives back to the body what is lost through sweat. they returned to gainesville and, after being tested on the uf football players, the name 'Gatorade' was given....
http://www.historyofbranding.com/gatorad...
"...only a year after its commercial introduction gatorade was reformulated, as its initial recipe contained the sweetener cyclamate, which was banned by the fda..."
http://mrvaughn.wordpress.com/2006/09/04...
lemon-lime?