Loco Tonic Sugar Free Energy Drink Review

I've been a regular to Big Lots for years, and Loco Tonic Sugar Free is the first energy drink I remember selling for seventy cents, as opposed to the usual sixty or seventy five. Its can can is brightly yellow with several lines of text cluttering the bottom half. And this wouldn't be a problem if it didn't say both "Low Carb" and "Sugar Free," and didn't have two different slogans. If they just chose one of each, then things would be cleaned up a bit. There's a red circle in the middle with a smiley face sticking its tongue out, and while I don't feel it looks at all attractive, it at least fits the "Loco" name.

Loco Tonic Sugar Free's flavour isn't so radical or crazy like its name suggests. It begins mostly flavourless with a hint of a chemical vanilla. The latter soon grows, however the chemical taste ebbs and tides underneath, where it then becomes noticeable that the vanilla is fairly natural, sweetly rich, and is closely advanced by a thick creamy taste. The milkiness has a hush looming note of blueberry that follows and is as mild as it could be, but provides a depth complex that's much appreciated in such an otherwise humdrum flavour. The vanilla then gains a peripheral gummy apple that grabs the below flowing chemical taste and pulls it back up into the mainstream of the experience. The two now clash within the milkiness, and the apple blends partially with the blueberry, and the chemical taste struggles but eventually crumbles, leaving only small reminders of something once stronger. However, since the blueberry is far softer than the apple and its gumminess, it's quickly lost, and the experience then proceeds to finish. Overall, Loco Tonic Sugar Free tasted different from most of the recent Red Bull clones and reminded me of long forgotten drinks like Red Devil, which isn't a compliment.

Loco Tonic S/F provided a kick lasting three hours. I had no jitters and the experience didn't end in a crash but instead a mild but noticeable reduction in energy. Each can contains: caffeine, taurine, several B vitamins, l-carnitine, and ginseng. Overall, Loco Tonic Sugar Free tasted and kicked as if the company wasn't trying for anything different or original, which I imagine was the case.

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