Apple Lytes

Equine America Apple Lytes

• Provides a carefully balanced ratio of key electrolytes: sodium, potassium, chloride, calcium and magnesium.
• Promotes drinking and rehydration and restores lost electrolytes to maintain optimum performance.
• Low in sugar and suitable for all horses and ponies
• Very tasty apple and cherry flavor, easy to mix in the feed.

A rise in body temperature as a result of exercise, traveling or high ambient temperature causes the horse to sweat. The evaporation of this sweat helps the horse to cool down and regulate its body temperature.

Sweating causes fluid loss along with the loss of body salts or electrolytes contained in sweat.

The important electrolytes are sodium and chloride, potassium, calcium and magnesium and they play many key roles in the body, but particularly muscle contraction, the nervous system and maintaining fluid balance around cells.

Potassium is normally abundant in the horse's diet as most forages such as pasture, hay and haylage are rich in potassium.

Sodium and chloride are present in much smaller amounts in feeds, and even in horses performing light work, sodium and chloride must be provided daily.

Most compound feeds such as cubes and mixtures provide some sodium and chloride in the form of salt. However, if intake is low, this may not be sufficient and additional electrolytes are required. Similarly, hard working horses, especially in hot or humid conditions, lose larger amounts of electrolytes and water in sweat. The normal daily feed is often not sufficient to replace these losses and additional electrolytes are needed to make up for these losses and encourage the horse to drink and rehydrate to maintain health and performance.

A horse working moderately, trotting and cantering, can lose up to 5-7 liters of fluid and 50-70 g of electrolytes in an hour. This increases as the intensity or duration of work increases.

Apple Lytes has been carefully formulated to replace key electrolytes and encourage drinking to support rehydration and maintain peak performance throughout the season.

Apple Lytes is highly palatable and should be mixed into feed. Clean, fresh water should always be available.

Information on doping relevance in our products is based on the manufacturer's information and is not regularly updated. In particular, the list of doping-relevant substances of the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) was used for the evaluation. However, it should be noted that national doping regulations may deviate from these international guidelines. In addition, the relevance of doping, especially of herbal ingredients, is subject to continuous change. For this reason, we recommend that you regularly inform yourself about the latest data in equestrian sport by consulting the FEI list of prohibited substances .