Optimum Nutrition Pre-Workout – Lemon Lime
October 7th, 2023I managed to find quite a few energy shots recently, and I haven’t seen many in years. This first one is a lemon-lime flavour with quite a bit of caffeine in (175mg). I’d hoped that after a few years the makers would have worked out how to make the shots sweeter tasting but sadly it’s still quite bitter. You can taste the lemon and lime flavouring, but the whole drink has a sour tang that makes you draw back the corners of your mouth in an instinctive reflex sort of way. As shots go, I’ve had worse!
Virtue Yerba Mate Peach and Raspberry
September 30th, 2023Virtue. Clean energy. Healthy sounding. Healthy tasting. I think the peach is a bit too sharp to be nice personally, and they needed to ramp up the sweetness from the raspberry a bit I didn’t particularly enjoy this variety of Virtue due to that, but maybe it has its fans somewhere? It of course contains Yerba Mate (clue is in the name) which is a form of herbal tea from a South American plant related to holly according to Wikipedia! This is where the caffeine component of the drink comes from.
3D Candy Punch
September 23rd, 2023Cherry! In fact I drank this can the day after I tried Prime Energy Tropical and I’d have to say it’s exactly the same flavour. It’s a sweet and strong synthetic cherry flavoured drink. There’s a lot of it, and I chilled it again half-way through just to keep it at optimal drinking temperature, but I enjoyed it.
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| Caffeine: | 42mg/100ml |
Tags: Candy, Large Can, Low Calorie, UK |
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| Calories: | 3kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 473ml | ||
| Sold By: | Cardiff | ||
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Prime Energy Drink Tropical Punch
September 16th, 2023This isn’t what I’d call a usual tropical flavour at all, to me it tastes a lot more like fizzy cherry. Perhaps it’s the red can making me think that, but I’m not getting any of the usual passionfruit or mango notes at all, just slightly sour cherry. That’s nice, that’s for certain – it still has the now typical strong Prime Energy flavour profile that’s common to most of the variations, and it does get sickly for the second half of the can, but it’s nice enough.
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| Caffeine: | 56mg/100ml |
Tags: Low Calorie, Tropical, UK |
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| Calories: | 3kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 473ml | ||
| Sold By: | Asda | ||
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Optimum Nutrition Amino Energy Tropical
September 2nd, 2023It’s just a tropical flavoured energy drink, nothing fancier than that really I’m sorry to say. I drank it, it was quite highly caffeinated, I enjoyed it, but it doesn’t stand out much.
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| Caffeine: | 40mg/100ml |
Tags: Low Calorie, Tropical, UK |
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| Calories: | 4kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | Home Bargains | ||
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Prime Energy Drink Blue Raspberry
August 26th, 2023This surprised me. I was expecting a super-strong-kick-me-in-the-face-flavour like the other Prime Energy drinks, however the blue raspberry, whilst very sweet and sickly, wasn’t massively strong. It’s not quite as refreshing as I’d hoped, but it’s nice and tastes just like most other blue raspberry drinks really.
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| Caffeine: | 56mg/100ml |
Tags: Low Calorie, Raspberry, UK |
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| Calories: | 3kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 330ml | ||
| Sold By: | Asda | ||
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Optimum Nutrition Amino Energy Mixed Berry
August 19th, 2023A bit disappointing really, it’s just a boring mixed berry drink. I don’t know why I’m surprised at being disappointed with it seeing as it does clearly state “mixed berry” on the can. I think because it was on sale for £1 per can making this potentially a premium priced drink even at that reduced level I was expecting a bit more from it. It has higher than average caffeine content and a ton of informative nutritional information plastered across the can, but it just didn’t taste as unique as I’d hoped.
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| Caffeine: | 40mg/100ml |
Tags: Berry, Low Calorie, UK |
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| Calories: | 4kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | Home Bargains | ||
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Prime Energy Drink Orange Mango
August 12th, 2023Once again Prime Energy like the stronger flavours in their drinks. This is a super-sweet orange flavoured drink, I didn’t really detect much mango in there but possibly it’s being lost in the overall strength of the drink’s powerful flavour. I found it quite sickly to drink personally, and not that refreshing. The can design and branding is premium though with the glossy black top and bold colouring.
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| Caffeine: | 56mg/100ml |
Tags: Low Calorie, Mango, Orange, UK |
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| Calories: | 3kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 330ml | ||
| Sold By: | Asda | ||
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Optimum Nutrition Amino Energy Pink Lemonade
August 5th, 2023I think they’ve flavoured it with strawberry, difficult to tell but it’s really nice whatever it is. Low calorie but when served ice cold it’s very refreshing and a perfect drink for the summer.
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| Caffeine: | 40mg/100ml |
Tags: Low Calorie, Pink Lemonade, UK |
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| Calories: | 4kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | Home Bargains | ||
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