I`ll admit that ice cold Gatorade tastes great and feels good going down....HOWEVER..... The first two ingredients are water and sucrose syrup. (SUCROSE: a crystalline disaccharide carbohydrate sugar found in many plants, mainly SUGAR CANE and SUGAR BEET) Yep....its sugar water alright !!!
So IMHO .....I`m drinking a drink made from water and sugar that tastes good.....but so does ice cold Pepsi (which by the way has the same first two ingredients as Gatorade)
It (Gatorade) is a sugary soft drink with a few electrolytes added that tastes good......Its nothing more / nothing less. Thats my take on it.
But hey.........if it works for you........right on bro.