When revising your essay, make sure your paper follows MLA style format. This page contains some general guidelines for the physical arrangement of your pages. For answers to specific questions, either follow the links on the preceding page, refer to the MLA Handbook, 4th ed., or check with your instructor.
Many fruit juices, vegetable juices and commercially-sold sports drinks contain electrolytes. When shopping for fruit and vegetable juices, look for 100 percent juice on the label to ensure you are getting the best nutrition and most electrolytes.
The sports drink Gatorade advertises that it contains electrolytes because it contains sodium, potassium, magnesium, and other ions. When humans sweat, we lose ions necessary for vital bodily functions; to replenish them, we need to consume more ions, often in the form of an electrolyte solution.