Pool Day: What to Drink by the Pool (and the Snack Trap)

Deckchairs, chlorine, children diving back in every 5 minutes: pool day dehydrates you as much as the beach — and the pool snack bar only sells sweets. Here is the perfect pool bag.

• 🏊 We ALSO become dehydrated in water : swimming makes you sweat (yes, yes) and the sun reflected by the water is double - hence the headache after returning from the pool
• 🎒 The smart pool bag : 1 large bottle of ice-cold diluted INTI (INTI ice cubes in), canned cut fruit, and that's it — no need for the snack
• 🔴 The pool snack trap : fluorescent granitas (~25g of sugar), sodas (8-11g/100ml), water ices (15g) — children ask for more every hour and end the day in a crisis of sugar fatigue
• 🤧 The chlorine tip : scratchy throat and irritated nose after hours in a chlorinated pool — INTI's spicy ginger-lemon soothes the throat better than a soda which dries it out
• ☀️ The 3 p.m. break : obligatory exit from the water, shade, sips of INTI — the ritual which prevents sunstroke in children who “do not feel” the sun in the water

A successful pool day: iced INTI bottle in the bag, cut fruit, shade break at 3 p.m., and the snack bar which remains closed. The whole family comes home hydrated, without the evening sugar crisis. ⚠️ In the water, you don't feel the sun or dehydration: sunscreen every 2 hours (even waterproof) and get out of the water regularly for children.

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