Emerge Juiced – Tropical
November 24th, 2012Nooo, another tropical drink! Nope, I didn’t like this much. It was sour, sharp, and everything I don’t like about tropical flavoured drinks. It was very cheap though, but even that doesn’t make up for the taste. Stick with their bog standard energy drink or if you must go for tropical, splash out on something a little more expensive.
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| Caffeine: | 30mg/100ml |
Tags: Tropical, UK |
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| Calories: | 46kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | Home Bargains | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
Watervit – Refresh & Revive
November 23rd, 2012Watervit is Boot’s own-brand range of juice mixed drinks under the ‘shapers’ banner of products which appear to be aimed at the health conscious female lunchtime buyers. Refresh & Revive is lemon and lime flavoured but in my opinion tastes like lemon-meringue flavoured Muller Crunch Corner yoghurts – it’s amazing! This is a brilliant drink with average caffeine content that I’d be happy to buy again.
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| Caffeine: | 15.2mg/100ml |
Tags: Bottle, Low Calorie, Natural, UK |
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| Calories: | 2kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 500ml | ||
| Sold By: | Boots | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
Boost
November 10th, 2012A bog-standard Red Bull clone which tastes sweet and as you’d expect. The main reason for the slightly elevated price-tag compared to other budget drinks is assumedly down to the Boost branding. The cans are attractive and look premium by comparison to the usual range of cheapo clones. Boost is most commonly found in 500ml bottles from my experience, but occasionally you find it in a 250ml can as per the photo attached to this review. If anyone ever sees a can of sugar-free Boost please let me know where you saw it cuz I can’t find it anywhere!
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| Caffeine: | 30mg/100ml |
Tags: Clone, UK |
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| Calories: | 47kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | Premier Stores, UK | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
Lucozade Energy Caribbean Crush
November 3rd, 2012Oh no, not another tropical energy drink. Well, that was what crossed my mind as I opened the bottle and the smell emerged. The actual flavour, however, was quite a sweetened tropical taste, which took the edge off the usual sharpness of the fruit. They’ve also thrown in a background note of coconut which, I’m pleased to say, made it better. I really enjoyed this drink I have to say.
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| Caffeine: | 12mg/100ml |
Tags: Bottle, Tropical, UK |
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| Calories: | 57kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 380ml | ||
| Sold By: | Premier Stores UK | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
Lucozade Energy – Pink Lemonade
October 27th, 2012This drink is nice… it’s fruity, sweet, and everything you’d expect from Pink Lemonade. I’m puzzled by the Lucozade branding though, because as a sports drink it is pretty bad – it’s far too sickly and sweet to be refreshing. If you want a change, give it a go, but if you’re after a refreshing sports drink, stick to the flavours you’re familiar with.
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| Caffeine: | 12mg/100ml |
Tags: Bottle, UK |
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| Calories: | 57kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 380ml | ||
| Sold By: | Asda | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
Chillax
October 6th, 2012I’ve had to start a new category: anti-energy drinks. Chillax is NOT an energy drink, but is in fact designed to chill you out, relax you, generally wind you down. It predomenantly contains rosehip juice as well as chamomile and passionflower to bolster its laid back credentials. It does taste really good too. Of course, with this being an energy drink site, it won’t score that highly due to the lack of caffiene. Give it a go, makes a change completely to the usual
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| Caffeine: | 0.001mg/100ml |
Tags: Anti-Energy Drinks, Low Calorie, UK |
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| Calories: | 7kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | Home Bargains | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
Red Bull Cola
September 29th, 2012Technically, I don’t normally allow colas a space on this web site because I don’t count them as energy drinks. I’ve made the occasional exception for colas which try to be energy drinks by containing guarana or taurine, but it’s always by exception. Red Bull Cola is another exception, but only because of its name. In every other respect it doesn’t count as an energy drink even though it packs in the same amount of caffeine as Lucozade. It tastes like a cola. That’s it really, nothing exceptional at all really and it’s not even one of the better colas. I was hoping for a slightly cola flavoured mix with Red Bull which would have been interesting but nope, it’s just a cola.
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| Caffeine: | 13mg/100ml |
Tags: Cola, UK |
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| Calories: | 38kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 355ml | ||
| Sold By: | Tesco | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
Aspire – Cranberry
September 15th, 2012We have a new contender for the worst tasting energy drink! To be fair though, it isn’t branding itself as tasting nice, but it does claim to burn 200 calories for every can you drink… really, it reckons it will help you lose weight. The can contains 12.5 calories, so I guess overall you’d be 187.5 calories down after drinking this. That’s if you can stomach it through to the end. The drink is bitter, and I’m talking about pint-of-bitter bitter, there’s something very earthy and real-ale tasting about the drink. Maybe that’s what unsweetened cranberries taste like? Anyway, it’s sold in health stores and premium supermarkets in the weight loss sections so keep your eyes out for it in case of a doughnut craving. That way you can cancel the doughnut out by drinking one of these, I’m sure that’s how it works…
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| Caffeine: | 30mg/100ml |
Tags: Cranberry, Guarana, Low Calorie, Natural, UK |
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| Calories: | 5kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | Holland and Barrett | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
Black Energy
September 8th, 2012
This appears to be a re-branding of a drink I tried a while back called Black Tiger. I have to say, on revisiting it, I’m enjoying it more than I did last time. But forget about the taste on this drink – it’s clearly about the branding. It’s a Polish drink endorsed by none other than Mike Tyson and has the slogan “Black Power!” emblazoned all over it too. It looks like we’ve discovered the secret of Mike’s success.
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| Caffeine: | 32mg/100ml |
Tags: Clone, UK |
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| Calories: | 46kCal/100ml | ||
| Size: | 250ml | ||
| Sold By: | Tesco | ||
| Web Site: | Click here | ||
