Base (500ml)
- Water: 500ml
- Sugar: 20g
- Salt: 1.5g
Mix until fully dissolved. Make fresh, drink same day.
Variations
Lemon or lime juice
- Lemon or lime juice: 15ml (大さじ1)
- Sugar: 20g (unchanged)
- Salt: 1.5g (unchanged)
Honey (replaces sugar — do not add on top)
- Honey: 24g (~17ml)
- Salt: 1.5g
- Omit the white sugar entirely
Orange juice (100% juice)
- Orange juice: 30ml (大さじ2)
- Sugar: 17g (reduced from 20g)
- Salt: 1.5g
- Water: 470ml (reduced to hold total volume at 500ml)
Apple juice (100% juice)
- Apple juice: 30ml (大さじ2)
- Sugar: 16.5g (reduced from 20g)
- Salt: 1.5g
- Water: 470ml (reduced to hold total volume at 500ml)
Umeboshi (crushed, traditional salt-cured, ~8g/1 piece)
- Umeboshi: 1 piece, crushed
- Sugar: 20g (unchanged)
- Salt: omit — the umeboshi supplies ~1.5g on its own
- Water: 500ml
If using a mild/honey-pickled umeboshi instead: add back ~0.9g salt, and check the label for added sugar.
Notes
- A ripe banana (~420mg potassium) alongside this solution reasonably covers the potassium gap.