Rockstar XD Power – Hardcore Apple
December 7th, 2019I don’t like apple flavoured anything. Usually… but this drink surprised me. I had planned to just try and bit and tip the rest away because I was so unlikely to want to finish it. Well, all finished! A nice fresh, sweet favour, and low in calories too! It also has BCAAs for the body builders out there (??? why are you drinking energy drinks!?).
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| Caffeine: | 40mg/100ml |
Tags: Apple, Large Can, Low Calorie, UK |
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| Calories: | 2kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 500ml | ||
| Sold By: | Premier Stores UK | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
Rockstar Baja Juiced – El Mango
November 30th, 2019A nice tropical flavoured drink in a massive can – it was quite refreshing and mild too. It’s just a shame it’s so high in calories! It doesn’t score very high on originality though despite calling it El Mango… it’s a tropical drink in everything but name.
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Large Can, Mango, UK |
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| Calories: | 48kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 500ml | ||
| Sold By: | Premier Stores UK | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
4move Active Vitamin Lime
November 23rd, 2019Quite an unusual drink given that it’s not actually billed as an energy drink. It’s a magnesium and vitamin drink with a low caffeine content provided by guarana. The guarana content according to the nutrition label is 0.01% which likely makes the caffeine content lower than that. Now then, magnesium is obviously an essential part of our diet, but I can’t help but think that whacking it in a high sugar drink like this is somewhat counterintuitive though. One of magnesium’s purported benefits is reducing the risk of diabetes, so maybe it should be an essential ingredient in all high sugar drinks – targetted delivery? Just my thoughts anyway. The lime flavour was sweet and natural, very refreshing, and as a soft drink this was a nice treat. As an energy drink (which to be fair, it’s not branded as such) it didn’t provide a kick.
Boost Energy – Cherry Burst
August 3rd, 2019I was a little bit disappointed with this drink. It started off great, a nice and sweet fix cherry flavour that was a bit different to the norm. But, after only a few sips it became quite sickly to drink. That’s a shame really because they really have tried something different, so maybe it’s just not to my taste.
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Coca-Cola Energy
May 18th, 2019What can I say other than it’s a potent version of Coca Cola? I’m not much of a Coke drinker to be honest, but to me it didn’t taste any different to regular Coke. It’s got a much higher caffeine content, and doesn’t appear to be suffering from a lack of sugar either.
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Visitors' Rating: | 1.0/5 (2 votes) |
| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Cola, UK |
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| Calories: | 42kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | Asda | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
Rockstar Twister Wacked Red Berry
May 11th, 2019I’ll start with the name… I’m familiar with the word ‘whack’, but not ‘wack’, so I needed to look that up. Apparently it means “bad, stupid, or unusual”, and I’m guessing it’s that last definition that they intended to associate with this flavour! Just like the other blue raspberry flavour I tried last week, the red berry is also quite tasty but sickly. But mostly tasty! The flavour took a while to identify, but I’d say it tastes like raspberry donuts (yes, American spelling). Not just normal raspberry donuts, but the artificial flavouring you get when you try a raspberry donut flavoured product such as raspberry donut flavoured milkshake or sweets. It’s not a flavour I’ve ever come across in an energy drink before and is very different to the raspberry of the blue raspberry drink.
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Berry, Large Can, UK |
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| Calories: | 23kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 500ml | ||
| Sold By: | Lifestyle Express | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
Rockstar Twister Smashed Blue Raspberry
May 4th, 2019This tastes great, but it is quite sickly after a while. It’s part of Rockstar’s new ‘twister’ range, for which I have only found two products (see Wacked Red Berry). At the time of writing, the rockstarenergy.co.uk web site appears to be down, so I can’t be certain as to the full intention for the ‘twister’ range of flavours, but I’d guess they are a response to the UK sugar tax. At 4.7g of sugar per 100ml, this drink falls in just short of the 5g limit for the tax to apply and consequently provides 23 calories/100ml too. That’s not low in calories by any means for a soft drink, but it’s in the right direction and certainly a lot lower than the older full-fat Rockstar blends.
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Visitors' Rating: | 4.0/5 (1 vote) |
| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Large Can, Raspberry, UK |
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| Calories: | 23kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 500ml | ||
| Sold By: | Lifestyle Express | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
Wow Focus Nootropic Mixed Berry
April 27th, 2019What is ‘Nootropic’? Apparently it’s ingredients that support cognitive function and reduce fatigue, and inspired by the film ‘Limitless’ (the book’s better, but I still loved the film and the TV series personally!). This is a new brand, and the can design is a bit different too with it being wrapped in a label instead of directly printed. The flavour of the drink sadly doesn’t appear to be anything special. It tastes like a supermarket own-brand blackcurrant drink. It’s low calorie (almost no-calorie) so it does have that in its favour.
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Visitors' Rating: | 3.0/5 (3 votes) |
| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Berry, Low Calorie, UK |
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| Calories: | 0.4kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | Asda | ||
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SIS Go Caffeine Shot Cola
April 20th, 2019This drink was so sour that I didn’t get any cola flavour at all. I might just as well have been sucking on a lemon to be honest. Still, it’s a very fast acting and potent drink which bolted me awake pretty quickly!
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| Caffeine: | 250mg/100ml |
Tags: Cola, Shot, UK |
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| Calories: | 15kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 60ml | ||
| Sold By: | Sainsbury's | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||