APPLE LYTES™ POWDER 10kg

Competition

Restoring lost electrolytes after exercise

Apple Lytes™ powder is carefully formulated to replace essential electrolytes and encourage drinking to help prevent dehydration and maintain high performance throughout the season.
Apple Lytes™ is considered very tasty, and should be mixed with Food. Clean fresh water should always be available.
Increasing body temperature, whether due to exercise, travel, or high environmental temperatures, will cause the horse to sweat. This sweating process helps the horse cool its body and regulate its temperature.
Sweating leads to loss of fluids, along with loss of salts or electrolytes found in sweat.
The important electrolytes are sodium and chloride, potassium, calcium, and magnesium, as they play many essential roles in the body, especially in muscle contraction, the nervous system, and maintaining fluid balance around cells.

Potassium is usually provided in abundant amounts in the horse's diet, as most feeds such as pastures, hay, and chaff contain high levels of potassium.
Sodium and chloride are found at much lower levels in feeds, and even for lightly working horses, sodium and chloride must be provided daily.
Most compound feeds such as cubes and mixes provide some sodium and chloride in the form of salt, but if inputs are low, they may not provide enough, requiring additional electrolytes. Similarly, horses working hard, especially in hot or humid conditions, will lose larger amounts of electrolytes and water through sweat. There is often not enough in the regular daily feeds to compensate for these losses, and it will be necessary to add electrolytes to replace these losses, encouraging the horse to drink and promoting rehydration, to maintain Health and performance.
A horse in moderate work, such as trotting and cantering, can lose up to 5-7 liters of fluids and 50-70 grams of electrolytes per hour, and this will increase with greater work intensity or duration, and even more if the weather is hot and humid!

Therefore, maintaining hydration and restoring lost electrolytes is important not only for elite competition horses but for all horses and foals that sweat after work – from foal club gatherings or long summer rides, to international competitors, show jumpers, and dressage horses!
Since horse sweat contains a higher concentration of sodium and chloride compared to its other body fluids, it is important to provide additional electrolytes at the correct concentrations to ensure the desire to drink is maintained, so fluid balance and electrolyte loss can be restored, promoting recovery, and ensuring continued optimal performance.

This is especially important during long-distance travel, or at shows and long events, when fatigue will increase, and performance will decline if electrolyte and fluid balance is not restored.

What are the benefits of Apple Lytes?

• Sodium, potassium, and chloride levels are carefully balanced to provide optimal levels to promote drinking and restore electrolyte loss to maintain performance.
• Calcium and magnesium are also provided from bioavailable sources.
• Low sugar content suitable for all horses and foals.
• Very tasty, with an appealing apple/cherry flavor, accepted even by the most selective horses.

Package size: 10 kg (330 servings), also available in 2.5 kg size (80 days supply).

Usage instructions: For horses weighing 400 to 600 kg; light work: 30 grams per day. Heavy exercise or heavy sweating: 60 grams per day. Maximum: 60 grams per day. For foals weighing 300 to 450 kg; light work: 15 grams per day. Heavy exercise or heavy sweating: 30 grams per day. Maximum: 30 grams per day. Do not exceed recommended inputs unless under veterinary supervision.