Lucozade Energy Blue Burst
November 8th, 2025Lucozade Energy always used to be quite watery but these newer flavours are much more robust! Blue Burst is supposed to be tropical flavoured, and perhaps it is but it’s more a slightly tropical twist on blue raspberry. Maybe it’s the colour of the drink messing with my senses but I’m sure it’s not *that* tropical. It’s quite sickly though due to the large amount of sugar in it and as with most Lucozade products the amount of caffeine in it is not listed meaning it’s pretty low.
SCI-MX Xplode: Atomic Passion
November 1st, 2025I have absolutely no idea what flavour this is! There’s a slight tang to it, maybe a bit tropical – I would guess from the name that it might be passion fruit but I’m not certain that’s the main flavour. It doesn’t matter anyway because it’s actually a really nice and refreshing fruity drink! As with other pre-workout drinks, drink with caution because it’s very high in caffeine.
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| Caffeine: | 60mg/100ml |
Tags: Low Calorie, UK |
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| Calories: | 7kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 330ml | ||
| Sold By: | B&M | ||
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Body Fuel Ultimate Pre-Workout: Cosmic Candy
October 25th, 2025Another very high caffeine-content pre-workout drink so consume responsibly. “Cosmic Candy” is the flavour of this drink and the can has little wrapped sweets drawn all over it. The problem is candy doesn’t tend to be “candy” flavoured, that’s not a thing! Candy/sweets are normally specific flavours themselves, like lemon or lime or orange or something. This drink is basically mixed fruit flavoured. It’s very nice don’t get me wrong, and I’d love to know the actual flavourings used, but it’s like a mixture between summer fruits and forest fruits I’d guess. An interesting drink…
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| Caffeine: | 61mg/100ml |
Tags: Low Calorie, Mixed Fruit, UK |
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| Calories: | 0kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 330ml | ||
| Sold By: | B&M | ||
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Perfect Ted Energy Apple Raspberry
October 18th, 2025The blurb on the can has a nice little story: “Hey, I’m Marisa! I have ADHD and anxiety. I wanted to feel energised without the jitters or crashes, so I created a brain-boosting energy drink…” and so it continues. I am by no means an expert in ADHD or anxiety but a little bit of reading suggests that caffeine and other stimulants can help with ADHD symptoms. Every day is a school day it turns out! This drink it a tea-based drink, and I’m not a fan of tea at all – I find it too bitter, but as it’s one of the most popular drinks worldwide I am clearly in the minority. This drink as I say is mostly tea-flavoured, it’s very lightly carbonated, and has a fruity apple/raspberry flavour. Mostly it tastes of tea to me though and I’m sorry, Marisa, I couldn’t finish it because of that 🙁
Wicked N Bad Energy Drink
October 11th, 2025I found this one at a music festival and subsequently paid a whopping £3.50 for it! If you take a look at the Wicked N Bad web site though (www.wickednbad.com) you’ll see that they aren’t an energy drink company at all – they are actually a “sports and entertainment management” company mainly concentrating on boxing promotion. A bit more digging discovered an old Instagram page @wickednbadenergy with no activity for a couple of years, so quite how this music festival ended up with thousands of cans of this product is intriguing! Looking at the best before date underneath the can, these were past their best two months before I purchased it so I’m guessing they have a lot of stock left over from previous years! It’s a clone, clearly, but it’s a smooth and very sweet one packed full of sugar so clearly pre-dates any attempts to meet the sugar tax requirements.
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Clone, UK |
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| Calories: | 47kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | In It Together Festival | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
SCI-MX Xplode: Original
October 4th, 2025There’s a new category of energy drinks popping up in shops recently: the pre-workout drinks. These are usually 330ml cans with extra high caffeine content of around 200mg. You’ve got to be careful drinking these – please consume carefully or if you’re particularly sensitive to caffeine then avoid and go for one of the regular energy drinks. This particular drink is from SCI-MX, the sports nutrition brand who mostly make protein supplements and similar products so I guess a pre-workout drink is on-brand. The original flavour I’m trying here is unusual – I was expecting some sort of Red Bull clone but what I actually got was a tangy sour fruit drink, possibly passion fruit? There’s no clue on the can as to the flavour but it’s certainly an interesting choice for the ‘original’ variety. Also in this can is 3g of citrulline malate… and yes, I’m Googling that right now… one second reader. Oh, ok… it’s some sort of pre-workout supplement that delays the on-set of muscle fatigue. So I guess if you’re about to run a marathon then it could be useful – I’m sure if you’re already serious about supplements in your training plan then you’ll already be taking this, so if you are then make sure you’ve considered that this drink already contains one of your doses.
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| Caffeine: | 60mg/100ml |
Tags: Low Calorie, Passion Fruit, UK |
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| Calories: | 7kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 330ml | ||
| Sold By: | B&M | ||
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Carabao Mango Burst
September 27th, 2025Another Thai energy drink but this time made in the UK – Carabao Mango Burst is full of flavour. It’s strong and tangy but sweet, very fruity and easy to drink. I’ve noticed that one of the ingredients is “burnt sugar caramel” and I’m not sure if that’s for colour, taste or both. It’s not sugar-free but it is reasonably low in calories at 49 per can and I think Carabao have managed a good compromise in this drink in terms of sugar content, fruit flavour and sweetness.
Red Bull Winter Edition (2025): Fuji Apple and Ginger
September 21st, 2025New for 2025 it’s the now regular special edition for Winter – this year Red Bull have gone with Fuji Apple and Ginger. Now I was very apprehensive about this one because I dislike both apple and ginger drinks usually, but I was pleasantly surprised here. You can certainly taste both the apple and the ginger, but neither are overpowering. It’s quite a smooth tasting drink, very sweet and the ginger does not attack the back of your throat at all but it does give the drink a slight warmth. Totally original and not what I was expecting, even the apple is subtle.
Red Bull Soda Energy Drink Blueberry Blackcurrant
September 13th, 2025A brief Red Bull history lesson: in the beginning was Krating Daeng, manufactured by TC Pharmaceutical (TCP). Red Bull as we know it in the West was derived from Krating Daeng for Western tastes in partnership with the owner of TCP, however products under the Red Bull brand name in Thailand are manufactured by TCP. This particular drink has been imported from Thailand and is very different to any Red Bull we might recognise in the West. It’s only very lightly carbonated and the flavour is mostly from blueberry as far as I can tell. Nearly all of the text on the can is in Thai so I’ve had to use Google Lens to translate what I can so apologies if any of the nutritional information is incorrect! A very nice energy drink and a change from the normal varieties we get in the UK / Europe.
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| Caffeine: | 22mg/100ml |
Tags: Blackcurrant, Blueberry, Thailand |
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| Calories: | 4kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | Family Shopper, UK | ||
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