Electromight Intense High-Strength Sugar-Free Electrolyte Drink Mix

It depends on the run. A 5k on a cool morning, no: water and your next meal cover it, and the sports scientists who say so are right. A long one in heat, a hard session that leaves you wrung out, a week of training somewhere hot: that's the case where the same experts say you do.

ElectroMight Intense is built for the second kind of run. For everything else, Daily or a glass of water.

Almost certainly not. Drink some water, eat something, and you're done. We'd be talking you into a sachet you don't need, and that's not how we sell things.

Where Intense earns its place is the long, hot, hard day, not the parkrun. If you like an electrolyte drink on ordinary days anyway, that's what Daily is for.

For an ordinary day, yes. 1,957mg of sodium is about 4.9g of salt, roughly four-fifths of the adult daily maximum, and you don't want that from a drink on a day you've spent at a desk. That's why this isn't the everyday sachet and we say so on the front of the page.

For the day it's built for, long, hard and hot, the amount is the point. One sachet is the most you should take in a day. If you're on a low-sodium diet or have been told to watch your blood pressure, this isn't your sachet at all.

It depends on who's drinking it and when. Taken every day on top of a normal diet, a high-sodium sachet adds a lot of salt you don't need. Taken on a long, hot, hard day by someone who's been on their feet for hours, it's the reason the category exists.

ElectroMight Intense is made for the second situation. If you have high blood pressure, a kidney condition, or you've been told to limit salt, speak to your GP before taking any electrolyte product, and choose Daily over Intense.

We're not going to rank other people's products. We can tell you ours: ElectroMight Intense carries 1,957mg of sodium per sachet, with 492mg of potassium, 205mg of magnesium and 183mg of calcium alongside it. Most electrolyte sachets sold in the UK carry a few hundred milligrams of sodium.

If you're looking for the strong end of the category, check the sodium line on the label before anything else. Ours is printed on the front of the box.

Because of how it tastes. Sodium chloride, table salt, is the compound that tastes salty. Sodium citrate and sodium carbonate deliver sodium with far less of that. Splitting 1,957mg across all three is how a serious dose ends up in a crisp apple drink you'll finish, rather than a glass of seawater you tolerate.

We make no claim about what each compound does once it's in you. This is about the glass.

In spirit, yes. Salt tablets are mostly sodium chloride, sometimes with a little potassium, swallowed dry with water. Intense delivers its sodium in a 500ml drink, alongside potassium, magnesium and calcium and a set of vitamins that a tablet doesn't carry.

To compare the sodium, check your tablet's label against 1,957mg per sachet. Wellgard doesn't make salt tablets, so we've no reason to tell you one format beats the other.

You can, and it will give you sodium. It will also taste like salt in water, and it gives you no potassium, magnesium, calcium or vitamins.

ElectroMight Intense is 1,957mg of sodium across three compounds so it drinks clean, with 492mg of potassium, 205mg of magnesium, 183mg of calcium, and vitamin C, B12, B6, pantothenic acid, iron and zinc. Whether that's worth paying for over a spoon of salt is your call; we'd rather you made it knowing the difference.

The label allows one sachet a day. Whether you should have one every day is a different question, and for most people the answer is no: 4.9g of salt daily on top of a normal diet is more than most people should be having.

If your days are all long, hot and hard, one a day is within the label. If they aren't, keep Intense for the days that are and have Daily the rest of the time. If you have high blood pressure or take medication, speak to your GP first.

No. This isn't the sachet for you. At 1,957mg of sodium it's the opposite of a low-sodium product, and we'd rather tell you that here than have you find out from your GP.

Daily carries 300mg of sodium, which is a different conversation, but check with your GP or pharmacist before taking any electrolyte product if you're managing blood pressure or on medication that affects your sodium or potassium.

Anyone on a low-sodium diet, anyone with high blood pressure or a kidney condition, and anyone taking medication that affects potassium or sodium levels should not take ElectroMight Intense without speaking to their GP first, and for most of them the honest answer will be to choose Daily or nothing.

The box also says to consult your doctor if you are pregnant, breastfeeding or on medication. People with iron overload should not take products containing iron. The label gives no serving for children.

The full ingredient list is: Acid: Citric Acid; Sodium Citrate, Sodium Chloride, Natural Apple Flavouring, Potassium Citrate, Calcium Hydrogen Phosphate, Magnesium Malate, Sodium Carbonate, Turmeric, Spirulina, Potassium Hydrogen Phosphate, Potassium Chloride, Calcium Ascorbate, Magnesium Oxide, Sweetener: Sucralose (E955); Iron Gluconate, Zinc Citrate, Calcium Pantothenate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Methylcobalamin.

Per 15g sachet: sodium 1,957mg, potassium 492mg (25% NRV), magnesium 205mg (55% NRV), calcium 183mg (23% NRV). Alongside those: vitamin C 80mg (100%), vitamin B12 63µg (2,520%), vitamin B6 0.7mg (50%), pantothenic acid 3mg (50%), iron 2.1mg (15%) and zinc 2.5mg (25%).

The three headline figures are printed on the front of the box; the full table is on the back.

Each is present at or above 15% of the daily reference intake, so we can tell you what it does, in the authorised wording.

Magnesium contributes to electrolyte balance. Magnesium, potassium and calcium contribute to normal muscle function. Magnesium and potassium contribute to normal functioning of the nervous system. Magnesium, vitamin C, vitamin B12 and iron contribute to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue. Vitamin B12, vitamin B6 and pantothenic acid contribute to normal energy-yielding metabolism. Vitamin C increases iron absorption. Zinc contributes to the normal function of the immune system.

Sodium carries no authorised claim, so we state the amount and leave it there.

Because a hard day asks more of you than salt and water, and because iron pairs well with the vitamin C that's already in the sachet. Each sachet carries 2.1mg of iron as ferrous gluconate with 80mg of vitamin C. Vitamin C increases iron absorption, and iron contributes to normal oxygen transport in the body and to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.

Iron is unusual in an electrolyte sachet. If you take another supplement containing iron, check the total.

No sugar. It's sweetened with sucralose, which the box declares as "with sweetener", and there's no stevia, so none of the bitter finish stevia leaves. The flavour is natural apple; the colour comes from turmeric and spirulina.

Nothing on the ingredient list comes from an animal: mineral salts, natural apple flavouring, turmeric, spirulina, sucralose, and methylcobalamin for the B12. We don't carry a vegan certification on the box, so we don't put the word on it. The full list is above if you want to check it yourself.

Stir one 15g sachet into 500ml of cold water with a clean, dry spoon. Drink it soon after mixing, or keep it in the fridge and finish it within six hours.

500ml matters. It's a 15g sachet carrying nearly two grams of sodium, and the box says plainly that too much or too little water affects the taste and texture. Less water and it's too strong; more and it's thin. The label means it.

One. That's the recommended daily intake on the box, and at 1,957mg of sodium per sachet the label means it. Do not exceed it.

The salt, if you have it on a day you don't need it. 4.9g on top of a normal diet is more than most people should be taking, which is why we tell you on the front of the page that Intense isn't for every day. Badly formulated, high-sodium drinks also taste like the sea, which is why Intense splits its sodium across three compounds.

If you have high blood pressure, a kidney condition or you've been told to limit salt, this product isn't for you. Speak to your GP before taking any electrolyte product.

Daily if you like an electrolyte drink and want one every day: 300mg sodium, 200ml, orange and passionfruit, with inulin. Intense if your days sometimes take everything out of you, the long run, the hot shift, the hard session: 1,957mg sodium, 500ml, crisp apple, and not for every day.

Plenty of people keep both: Daily for most days, Intense for the others.

People whose days sometimes aren't ordinary. Runners and cyclists on the long ones. Footballers in pre-season. Anyone training hard enough to be wrung out afterwards. Chefs, builders, warehouse and delivery crews through a heatwave. Anyone hiking or working somewhere hot. Sauna regulars.

It's for the day, not the person. The same runner wants Daily on a Tuesday and Intense on a Sunday in July.

The box says to consult your doctor or a medical practitioner before taking it if you are pregnant or breastfeeding. Given the sodium level, please do.

No. The label gives no serving for children, says to keep the box out of their sight and reach, and at 1,957mg of sodium per sachet this is an adult product. Speak to your GP or pharmacist before giving any food supplement to a child.

In the EU, using non-UK ingredients, as the box says. Wellgard is a UK brand based in London, and the responsible person named on the box is Bayagan Group Ltd.

Store the box in a cool, dry place, out of sight and reach of children. Once mixed, drink it soon after or keep it in the fridge and finish within six hours. The best before end date is printed on the top of the box.

Twenty sachets. How long that lasts depends on how many hard days you have. For most people that's weeks, not days, which is rather the point of a sachet that isn't for every day.

Yes. Subscribe & Save takes 15% off every order, delivers automatically on your chosen schedule, and you can pause, skip or cancel at any time. Set the frequency to match your hard days, not the calendar.

Wellgard offers a full refund within 30 days, even if the box has been opened and some of the sachets used.