It's neither! Actually Gatorade is a homogeneous mixture. A homogeneous mixture is a solid, liquid, or gas that contains two or more substances blended evenly throughout.
Gatorade contains elements that are blended together to make compound, and also many other very long chemical mixtures but all in all its really a homogeneous mixture.
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Gatorade is a mixture.
Reasons?
Gatorade is NOT an element because it is made of up WAY more than one type of atom. After all, you can't find it on the periodic table.
Gatorade is NOT a compound because its atoms are not all chemically bonded together in a fixed proportion.