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University of Florida football player Chip Hinton testing Gatorade 1965, pictured next to the leader of its team of inventors, Robert Cade.. Gatorade was created in 1965, by a team of scientists at the University of Florida College of Medicine, including Robert Cade, Dana Shires, Harry James Free, and Alejandro de Quesada. [7]
Robert Cade was born in San Antonio, Texas, on September 26, 1927. [2] He was a fourth-generation Texan. [3] Cade took an early interest in athletics and ran the mile in four minutes, twenty seconds at Brackenridge High School, [2] a very respectable time for a high school athlete in the early 1940s. [4]
Chris Denorfia of the Chicago Cubs is hit with a double Gatorade shower. The Gatorade shower, also known as the Gatorade dunk or the Gatorade bath, is a sports tradition that involves players surreptitiously dumping a cooler full of liquid (most commonly Gatorade mixed with ice) over the head of their coach (or occasionally a high-profile assistant coach, star player, or team owner in ...
Gatorade was invented at the University of Florida and was named after the school's mascot, the Gators. The university receives an estimated 20 million from the company every year.
Gatorade was created to support athletic performance. So, when it comes to how often you should drink it, or if you should even drink it at all, there’s a couple different factors at play.
From Gatorade to Spanx, you'd be surprised how much — or little — people earn from iconic inventions. Find out how rich you could've been with the right idea.
Lucozade is a British brand of soft drinks and energy drinks manufactured and marketed by the Japanese company Suntory.Created as "Glucozade" in the UK in 1927 by a Newcastle pharmacist, William Walker Hunter [1] (trading as W. Owen & Son), [a] it was acquired by the British pharmaceutical company Beecham's in 1938 and sold as Lucozade, an energy drink for the sick. [1]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States does not differentiate between sports drinks and energy drinks. [4]In July 2024, the FDA revoked its authorization for the use of brominated vegetable oil (BVO), which is a stabilizer for fruity and citrus-flavored food and beverages. [5]