Rip It – 3-Way
July 13th, 2013Putting the name aside, I’ll try to review the drink on its own merits! Looking at the picture on the front of the can I’m lead to believe that the three fruits involved in this drink are strawberry, blueberry and blackberry. It does taste quite nice mixing those together, but the overall effect is to make it taste like it should have been frozen and served in a long plastic tube on a hot summer’s day. Colour-wise it’s the same, with Rip It seemingly taking inspiration from Mountain Dew in their use of bright colourants in their drinks. 3-way is a bright blue! It’s not the best in the range, but it certainly gets high marks.
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| Caffeine: | 42.5mg/100ml |
Tags: Berry, Guarana, Large Can, UK, USA |
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| Calories: | 41.6kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 473ml | ||
| Sold By: | www.americanfizz.co.uk | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
EQ8 – Orange & Passion Fruit
July 10th, 2013This EQ8 flavour, I assume, is not as healthy as the Cranberry & Apple version. I say this only because it doesn’t have the “1 of your 5 a day” logo stamped on the front of it. However like the other one, it is packed full of fruit juices and doesn’t contained any added sugar. The combination of juices in this drink give it a tropical flavour, and is much sweeter than the other flavour. It has a refreshing taste to it but doesn’t give you much of a caffeine kick.
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| Caffeine: | 1mg/100ml |
Tags: Guarana, Natural, Tropical, UK |
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| Calories: | 42.8kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | Morrisons | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
EQ8 – Cranberry & Apple
July 6th, 2013Jumping on the bandwagon of healthy drinks, EQ8 certainly has the credentials for being healthy. It contains no sugar other than that found in the medley of fruit juices it is concocted from, and the caffeine sources are guarana and green tea based too. Sadly the can gives no clue as to the actual caffeine content so I have to assume it is low. But, as energy drinks go, it does pick you up if not as forcefully as the synthetic varieties. Taste-wise, sadly it disappoints. This flavour is quite sour and could have done with added sugar to be honest!
Pit Bull Cherry and Lime
July 3rd, 2013I’m really not convinced on the combination of cherry and lime in this drink. The cherry flavour comes through, but it someone severely soured by the lime making it quite a bitter experience. Having tried the original Pit Bull, I could sense a theme as the underlying taste of the original was evident in this drink too, however I don’think it works as a mixer with other ingredients. Still, there are other Pit Bull cocktails to try and they could turn out to be wonderful so I shall withhold my judgement on this brand until then. Personally, I won’t be trying this again because there are many more nicer tasting drinks out there.
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| Caffeine: | 33.3mg/100ml |
Tags: Cherry, Guarana, Large Can, Lime, UK, USA |
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| Calories: | 45.8kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 473ml | ||
| Sold By: | www.americanfizz.co.uk | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
Lucozade Revive – Strawberry and Lime
June 29th, 2013The strawberry and lime combination don’t work for me. The strawberry suffers from the sharpness of the lime, and the lime suffers from the chewy flavour of strawberry. There’s also not enough caffeine in this to be of any use in quenching my caffeine addiction so it’s little more than a thirst quencher. Original in flavour, I’ll give it points for that, but the execution isn’t as nice as the bottle looks. *Note, I’ve estimated the caffeine content as the product contains too little for them to mark it as high and state the actual content.
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| Caffeine: | 2mg/100ml |
Tags: Bottle, Lime, Strawberry, UK |
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| Calories: | 13kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 380ml | ||
| Sold By: | Tesco | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
Carrefour Taurine Light Force
June 22nd, 2013Is it called Psychik, or is is called Taurine Light Force? I don’t know.. but I do know that this is a very good Red Bull clone. Nice and sweet getting the balance just right especially as this is a supermarket own brand. Sadly though, it’s a supermarket own brand in France so unless you live over that way, you’ll either have to take my word for it or find yourself a French-based contact to send you one.
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Clone, France, Low Calorie |
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| Calories: | 3kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | Carrefour, France | ||
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Shapers Orange Stimulation Drink
June 19th, 2013‘Part of the 500 calorie meal deal’ from Boots, apparently. It’s an own-brand offering from the high street store, one of two flavours they have for sale. It’s clearly aimed at the calorie conscious, providing only 16 calories per can, but it does manage to cram in actual real orange juice. That would explain the most natural orange flavour I’ve tasted in an energy drink. It’s sharp, but fortunately watered down to the point of being just about right, and it packs 32mg/100ml of caffeine. On a karmic scale – it probably balances bad-for-you with good-for-you.
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Low Calorie, Orange, UK |
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| Calories: | 6kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | Boots | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
Dark Dog
June 15th, 2013This delicacy, also from France but seen in Spain and Germany too, has a distinctive energy drink taste but is not a Red Bull clone at all. It’s a much more earthy taste, quite caramelized but nice nonetheless. Dark Dog is different and successfully so, but it’s not as sickly and sweet as most energy drinks, or as artificial as Monster.
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: France, Guarana |
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| Calories: | 52kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | Carrefour, France | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
Lucozade Revive – Orange with Acai
June 12th, 2013Better than the cranberry version, but not as good as the lemongrass. It really just tasted like orange Lucozade and not that special at all. I had high hopes for the new range of Lucozades, but to be honest there’s only the one of them which stands out. Go for the lemongrass flavour instead as it’s refreshing and different – if you want an orange Lucozade, get the original orange flavour instead
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| Caffeine: | 1mg/100ml |
Tags: Bottle, Low Calorie, Orange, UK |
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| Calories: | 13kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 380ml | ||
| Sold By: | Tesco | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
