Abstract: Sport drinks, performance drinks, electrolyte drinks and the like are made from at least one carbohydrate and at least two biodegradable polymers selected from the group consisting of copolymers of sucrose and epichlorohydrin having molecular weights of from 70,000 to 400,000, glucose polymers having molecular weights of from 10,000 to 300,000, polyethylene glycols having molecular weights of from 1000 to 100,000, polyvinyl alcohols having molecular weights of from 70,000 to 110,000, polysucrose, hydroxymethyl cellulose, hydroxyethyl cellulose, hydroxypropyl cellulose, hydroxypropyl-methyl cellulose, hydroxypropyl-ethyl cellulose, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, gelatine, starch, crosslinked starch, methoxypolyethylene glycol, ethoxypolyethylene glycol, polyethylene oxide, polyoxyethylene, polyoxypropylene, block copolymers of polyoxyethylene and polyoxypropylene, lecithin and lysolecithin. Preferred polymers are polyethylene glycol and a copolymer of sucrose and epichlorohydrin.