Independent supplement ratingsUS and Canada · Updated weekly
A ratings desk for a category that has spent thirty years grading its own homework.
A ratings desk for a category that has spent thirty years grading its own homework.
One idea, executed properly. Our plain read on how transparent they are about doses and testing — and what their products actually scored.
LMNT does one thing: a high-sodium, zero-sugar electrolyte mix. Whether that is worth your money depends entirely on how much you sweat.
The label is as simple as labels get — sodium, potassium, magnesium, flavouring, no sugar, no proprietary blend, no hedging. For a category where "hydration" powders routinely hide a token amount of sodium behind a wall of marketing, that plainness is the product's best feature.
1,000 mg of sodium per stick sits at the top of the useful replacement range for a hard, sweaty hour, which is why it scores well in our electrolyte ranking. It is also far more sodium than a sedentary person needs, and the brand's own messaging leans harder on "everyone is under-salted" than the evidence comfortably supports. If you are not sweating heavily, this is a lot of salt for the money.
Price. It is one of the most expensive ways to buy sodium and potassium in existence, and the gap between it and a mid-priced competitor is not a formulation gap — it is flavour, branding and convenience. Worth it for some people. Worth knowing that is what you are buying.
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