Abstract
Gatorade for the gladiator era The Newscripts gang has been logging some serious hours in spin class lately, and we’ve been on the hunt for something new and trendy to keep us hydrated. Our old favorite, Gatorade, pride of the Sunshine State, was famously created in 1965 by Robert Cade, a professor of internal medicine and nephrology at the University of Florida College of Medicine. The electrolyte-containing performance beverage was originally so salty it made Florida Gators football players vomit. While Cade is often credited as the originator of the sports drink, a similar beverage was used to rehydrate the Roman army thousands of years earlier. Just in case those Romans were on to something, the Newscripts gang decided to investigate. Posca was the Gatorade of its time—the Roman Republic era, beginning around 500 BCE. A mix of water and vinegar from wine that had gone bad, posca was rationed
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