Monster Punch: Rio Punch

April 26th, 2025

My reaction to trying this the first time: “oooooh”. It’s different! I was expecting a tropical flavoured drink but it’s so not that! It’s very sweet and there’s something almost parma violet about it, but not quite. It says on the can that it’s a blend of exotic fruits with a hint of spice. I can’t taste the spice, but I get the exotic fruits. It might be watermelon? Whatever it is I like it!

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(4.2/5)
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Caffeine: 32mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 30kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
Sold By: Asda
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Furocity Mango Mayhem

March 15th, 2025

Now this is much more inline with what you would expect from a tropical flavoured drink: mango, apricot and ‘tropical’ according to the details on the can. I’m a bit concerned about the random ‘tropical’ item in that list, I’m non-the-wiser as to what that might actually be, but there’s no mistaking the tangy and sharp tropical flavouring you’ll be familiar with from every other tropical drink out there.

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(2.5/5)
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Caffeine: 31.5mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 1kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
Sold By: Iceland
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Furocity Tropical Thunder

February 22nd, 2025

It’s a tropical energy drink! Not too tangy, quite smooth really and the passionfruit is the main flavour rather than the peach (is peach a tropical fruit? I don’t think it is…). A large can, low in calories, best served chilled because it gets a bit sickly as it warms up.

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(3.2/5)
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Caffeine: 31.5mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 1kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
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Levi Roots Energy: Caribbean Crush

January 25th, 2025

A reasonably decent tropical drink branded with the Dragons’ Den star’s now iconic name! Apart from the branding, there isn’t too much that stands out about the product. It was a good price for a large can and contained real fruit juice too which I guess is a bonus.

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(3.2/5)
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Caffeine: 32mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 19kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
Sold By: Poundland
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Kong Strong Colossus: Orange, Passion Fruit, Guava

October 19th, 2024

It’s a tropical energy drink. Badge it up however you like by listing the fruits used but at the end of the day it’s a huge (colossal?) can of tropical energy drink! Not bad, and from the budget supermarket Lidl so a decent price too.

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(2.9/5)
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Caffeine: 32mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 21kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
Sold By: Lidl
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Grenade Tropical “Sun of a Beach”

September 7th, 2024

A very interesting take on a tropical energy drink – yes it says it’s tropical flavoured, but it’s coconut! There must be some fruit in there somewhere too but it’s not anything like your typical tropical drink. I’m also slightly concerned by the allergy information saying this may contain crustaceans and fish… it doesn’t taste fishy anyway, how do those accidentally get into an energy drink mix, are they using tropical sea water?!? anyway, it’s a nice and very different tasting drink.

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(3.9/5)
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Caffeine: 47mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 6kCal/100ml
Size: 330ml
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Furocity Champion

March 30th, 2024

It’s a bedazzlingly gold can which sadly doesn’t give off the premium vibe that I think it was trying to go for. Rather, it looks more like the one-off budget brands you pick up in the pound stores which are trying to be shiny and bright to grab your attention. As drinks go, it’s not bad though – a very sweet tropical flavoured one that’s not too sickly even in this 500ml large can.

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(2.9/5)
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Caffeine: 31.5mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 19kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
Sold By: Iceland
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Raptor Tropical Cherry

December 23rd, 2023

So this is what it tastes like when you mix a tropical drink with a cherry one. Tropical cherry. It’s certainly unique that’s for sure. I’m not sure if I actually like it or not, I mean, I don’t hate it, it’s just an assault on the senses is all, not what I’m expecting on my taste buds! You have the tartness from the tropical, plus the sherbettyness (new word, officially) from the artificial cherry flavouring. The name Raptor I’m assuming is referring to the Velociraptor dinosaur and not the birds of prey… and I’m basing that off the picture on the can!

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(3.5/5)
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Caffeine: 32mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 2kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
Sold By: Booker
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Prime Energy Drink Tropical Punch

September 16th, 2023

This 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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(3.8/5)
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Caffeine: 56mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 3kCal/100ml
Size: 473ml
Sold By: Asda
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