Vitamin Water – Spark

December 1st, 2012

The clue is in the name… water. It tastes like water with a dash of flavouring. Now, at first I didn’t enjoy it because of that wateriness, but about halfway through I realised it was actually quite nice. The tropical flavour is very mild and because of that it’s very refreshing and easy to drink. As for wakey-wakeyness, it isn’t very strong, but it’s certainly original.

Overall Rating:
(3.1/5)
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Caffeine: 14.2mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 19kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
Sold By: Boots
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Rockstar Xdurance – Blueberry, Pomegranate, Acai

November 27th, 2012

Exactly the same as the can, but in a bottle! See this review.

Overall Rating:
(4.2/5)
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Caffeine: 32mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 57kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
Sold By: Road Chef
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Emerge Juiced – Tropical

November 24th, 2012

Nooo, 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.

Overall Rating:
(1.4/5)
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Caffeine: 30mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 46kCal/100ml
Size: 250ml
Sold By: Home Bargains
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Watervit – Refresh & Revive

November 23rd, 2012

Watervit 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.

Overall Rating:
(3.8/5)
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Caffeine: 15.2mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 2kCal/100ml
Size: 500ml
Sold By: Boots
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Boost

November 10th, 2012

A 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!

Overall Rating:
(2.1/5)
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Caffeine: 30mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 47kCal/100ml
Size: 250ml
Sold By: Premier Stores, UK
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Lucozade Energy Caribbean Crush

November 3rd, 2012

Oh 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.

Overall Rating:
(3.3/5)
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Caffeine: 12mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 57kCal/100ml
Size: 380ml
Sold By: Premier Stores UK
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Lucozade Energy – Pink Lemonade

October 27th, 2012

This 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.

Overall Rating:
(3.3/5)
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Caffeine: 12mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 57kCal/100ml
Size: 380ml
Sold By: Asda
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Chillax

October 6th, 2012

I’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

Overall Rating:
(3.4/5)
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Caffeine: 0.001mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 7kCal/100ml
Size: 250ml
Sold By: Home Bargains
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Red Bull Cola

September 29th, 2012

Technically, 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.

Overall Rating:
(2.3/5)
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Caffeine: 13mg/100ml Tags:
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Calories: 38kCal/100ml
Size: 355ml
Sold By: Tesco
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