A recent study pegged Sprite as the winner for "best hangover cure," but some people think there are better options.
A group of Chinese scientists suggested that "what you drink following the consumption of alcohol could alert the effect of alcohol on your body," after a number of tests they found Sprite to be the best thing to drink on the miserable morning after, Chemistry World reported.
After a night of heavy drinking on may wake up with nausea, headaches, and the intense urge to grab and ice cold beverage. So what's the smartest "drink of choice?"
A new product marketed as a "hangover cure" has recently hit U.S. shelves. The drink claims to ward of hangovers if ingested between drinks, TODAY.com reported.
"Sugar, B-vitamins, electrolytes, water etc, all have been shown to have a role in alcohol breakdown," NBC News health and diet editor Madelyn Fernstrom told TODAY.com. "But in the amounts found in this drink, who knows?"
Jim Galligan, a writer for TODAY tried the drink himself, having one bottle for each alcoholic beverage or two he consumed.
"I awoke the next morning feeling surprising well. I had no headache, no body stiffness, no oh-lord-please-let-me-die feeling. Even more, I felt noticeably better than when I match each glass of beer or booze with a glass of water," Galligan wrote.
"I did sweat a bit when I got to moving around doing Sunday chores, but I was essentially hangover-free, ready to tackle a busy day without the burden of the bourbon I had imbibed the night before. RESQWATER did the trick!" He said.
Each bottle costs about $4 and change, so the writer spent around $15 to prevent his hangover.
"Bottom line with this, and other kinds of 'hangover' treatments," Fernstrom said, "The ingredients are all geared to help the body metabolize alcohol more quickly. The faster it gets out of your system, the less bad you feel."
Some young people swear by a different drink to cure hangover woes. Pedialyte is a fruity tasting drink meant to rehydrate infants with diarhea or other afflictions, the N.Y. Daily News reported.
"It's like 10 Gatorades in one bottle," musician Jason Isbell told The New York Times Magazine.
This year, Pedialyte sales increased to 16 percent higher than they had been at the same time the year before, the Chicago Grid reported.
Experts aren't convinced the drink helps fight the effects of a night of heavy drinking.
"There's nothing you can do to remove the alcohol byproducts. They have to be metabolized by your liver, which takes time. There's no evidence that anything is better than waiting," Stanley Goldfarb, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, told Slate.
