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thatcrazycajunAll lovers of sports drinks and persons associated in some way with organized athletics (especially college football) should bow their heads and doff their helmets today to honor the passing of Dr. Robert Cade, leader of the University of Florida scientific team that, 42 years ago, first developed the electrolyte-balancing elixir we know today as Gatorade. Dr. Cade died at 80 of kidney failure; Newsvine.com reports his obituary here.
The favorite bath of winning coaches is now the flagship product of an entire line of drinks and flavored waters designed expressly to replace that which the human body loses in the course of exertion, currently made and sold by PepsiCo through its Quaker Oats Co. subsidiary. (The official website carries no visible notice of Dr. Cade's death, but this may be simply due to its only having just happened.) Gatorade also arguably blazed the trail for the introduction of all those so-called "energy drinks" with names like Red Bull, PowerAde and Full Throttle that now clog the shelves of your local gas-station store's cold-drinks case.
Along with his late colleague Dr. Robert C. Baker of Cornell (inventor of the chicken nugget), Cade will surely forever hold a place in the pantheon of giants in the food and beverage sciences.
The favorite bath of winning coaches is now the flagship product of an entire line of drinks and flavored waters designed expressly to replace that which the human body loses in the course of exertion, currently made and sold by PepsiCo through its Quaker Oats Co. subsidiary. (The official website carries no visible notice of Dr. Cade's death, but this may be simply due to its only having just happened.) Gatorade also arguably blazed the trail for the introduction of all those so-called "energy drinks" with names like Red Bull, PowerAde and Full Throttle that now clog the shelves of your local gas-station store's cold-drinks case.
Along with his late colleague Dr. Robert C. Baker of Cornell (inventor of the chicken nugget), Cade will surely forever hold a place in the pantheon of giants in the food and beverage sciences.