USN Spike

February 12th, 2014

I purchased this from a health store, so it must be good for you, right? Hmm, well, it’s absolutely jam packed full of sugar as well as the fruit juice it declares on the front of the can. Taste-wise, there’s something of a Monster Ripper essence to it which is nice but very sweet. The main flavours come from apple, pineapple and passion fruit, but they’ve also bunged guava, orange, and a whole host of B vitamins in to boot. All-in-all, it tastes good and gives you one hell of a kick.

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(3.5/5)
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Caffeine: 32mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 50kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
Sold By: Holland and Barrett
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Vitabiotics Wellwoman

February 8th, 2014

This tastes like it must be good for you, and by that I mean it tastes bloody awful. The can claims it contains Elderberry, green tea, grape seed, artichoke, pomegranate and cranberry – I can only tell you that the combination is not good. Maybe you do have to be a woman to drink it, perhaps it tastes better then? But, in my opinion, it tastes like someone has filtered compost and canned the residue. I know it has a decent caffeine hit, but couldn’t tell you the exact amount because there’s no information on the can. That means that it doesn’t contain enough to warrant the warning – but the caffeine is hidden amongst the guarana and green tea extracts.

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(1.7/5)
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Caffeine: 0.01mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 5.3kCal/100ml
Size: 250ml
Sold By: Holland and Barrett
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Rockstar Pure Zero Fruit Punch

February 5th, 2014

Yay! It’s another drink that tastes like a Swizzels Matlow Double Dip! I love it, it’s a very synthetic and sugary tasting mixed fruit drink which fizzes itself down, yet contains only 4 calories per 100ml. Rockstar do seem to put in a lot of effort with their non-standard energy drink flavours and their range contains many of my personal favourites which includes this one. Even a lot of effort has gone in to the can which oozes quality with its dual texture surface.

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(4.2/5)
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Caffeine: 32mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 4kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
Sold By: WH Smith
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Boost Sugar Free

January 22nd, 2014

I finally found Boost Sugar Free, but it’s not in a can. A 500ml bottle is all I could get hold of, and I really prefer to review 250ml can editions if at all possible. That said, it’s a nice yet unoriginal clone. Best chilled, of course, because being in a bottle it warmed up quite a bit by the time I’d got to the second half.

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(2.5/5)
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Caffeine: 30mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 2kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
Sold By: B&M
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Boost Energy Cola

January 18th, 2014

Basically, it’s a really cheap tasting watery cola that left me feeling a little nauseous. It’s of course quite high in caffeine or it wouldn’t make an appearance on this site, but personally, if you like cola, get a proper brand. If you like energy drinks, get a proper energy drink.

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(2.4/5)
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Caffeine: 30mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 47kCal/100ml
Size: 250ml
Sold By: B&M
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Blue Spark Tropical Sugar Free

January 15th, 2014

Well, it’s alright. That’s as complimentary as I’m getting with this drink. It was a little watery, but not offensive.

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(2.1/5)
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Caffeine: 32mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 4kCal/100ml
Size: 250ml
Sold By: Tesco
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Blue Spark Mixed Fruit Sugar Free

January 11th, 2014

Really good! Nice and fruity, cheap, and low calorie too. I highly recommend this drink for something different to the usual array of supermarket own brands. It’s not too fizzy, not too sweet, not too bitter – just right. Go get a can right now…

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(3.5/5)
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Caffeine: 32mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 4kCal/100ml
Size: 250ml
Sold By: Tesco
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Asda Blue Charge Mixed Fruit

January 8th, 2014

Take a packet of Starburst. Munch the whole lot, taking special care to get extra juicy flavour out of the blackcurrent ones. Now savour the aftertaste of all those sweets mixed together because that’s what this Mixed Fruit flavoured drink tastes like. It only seems to come in a large 1 litre bottle for some reason… maybe I’m just not looking hard enough. The taste is okay though and it’s pretty unique so far as supermarket own brand drinks go.

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(4.6/5)
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Caffeine: 30mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 46kCal/100ml
Size: 1000ml
Sold By: Asda
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Asda Blue Charge Diet Summer Fruits

January 4th, 2014

Asda are really trying hard with their energy drinks… but not quite hitting the spot. They’re going for variety of range over quality and it shows. Fancy a berry flavoured drink? They have one! Tropical? yup! Diet? Most of them! This is a berry drink, and it is sugar free (at least, I haven’t found a non-diet version yet). It’s very strong in flavour – like it is almost 50% cordial! Overall though it’s only average so it gets average scores.

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(2.4/5)
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Caffeine: 30mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 3kCal/100ml
Size: 250ml
Sold By: Asda
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