Updated on 13 October 2026. The original 2007 post is kept below.
Why would anyone freeze pickle juice?
It sounds like a prank, but pickle-juice ice pops have a real fan base: athletes. For years, coaches and trainers have handed out pickle juice to players with muscle cramps. Pickle-juice popsicles turn that sideline trick into something easier to carry and less likely to slosh.
There’s even some science behind it. In a small 2010 study in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, researchers at North Dakota State University induced cramps in ten dehydrated men. Cramps ended about 37 percent faster after a sip of pickle juice than after water. The juice didn’t change electrolyte levels in the blood that quickly, so the researchers think a reflex in the mouth and throat switches the cramp off, not the salt itself.
So it’s not a miracle cure and it’s still only one small study. It is, however, the most scientific thing ever to happen to a pickle. Brine responsibly.
More frozen oddities: the Hopsicle beer popsicle and absinthe lollipops.
From the 2007 original
And you thought the beer popsicle was a strange idea?
Source: www.picklesickle.com
