Arizona Mucho Mango Energy Drink Review

The Arizona line is back from the grave, with can designs resembling their tea line more so than their earlier energy drinks. Huge font informs the drinker of its flavor and of its caffeinated nature, however, little focus is given to the brand itself, only a tiny crest up top is designated to the state-named company. But the biggest problem here? The silly shrink-wrapped label; it simply feels and looks cheap.

Things are non-carbonated, but at only a small six percentage of actual juice, the absent effervescence is an encumbrance. Each mouthful is plodding, the stiff liquid crawling across my tongue with little dynamism in regards to flavor or mouthfeel. The actual mango flavor, from mango puree, is not bad, it has a gentleness to it, a caressing acidity, but lacks any sovereign punch or heft for this to be a "mango" drink. The paltry juice content also comes from pear juice and coconut water, the former adding nothing to any of the fifteen and a half ounces, and the latter adding an unwelcome umami characteristic, both in taste and in texture.

Each can contains: B vitamins, guarana, vitamin C, and 125 milligrams of caffeine. Any energy is negligible, the buzz lasting an hour and a half. In the end, Arizona Mucho Mango Energy is fails to fire on any cylinder.

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Arizona Watermelon Natural Energy Drink Review

This cheerful can unfortunately as its design shrinkwrapped on, a cheap feel detracting from its bold font; one that otherwise does not want you to forget that this is watermelon flavored and an energy drink. It is easy to read and I appreciate that, but that does not leave much room for personality.

The flavor is decent enough, but to call this "watermelon" flavored would be to lie- there is simply too potent an emphasis on the other fruits. There are six others that I counted in addition to the namesake nectar, and any passive imbibe resemble primarily pear and pineapple, a melodyless medley of apathetic fruit flavors. Coconut water's involvement give sips an oily mouthfeel, a heavy, unpleasant texture as one consumes that taints every ounce offered here. The lack of effervescence does little to help, leaving mouthfuls leaden and uninteresting as the coconut water dominates.

Each can contains: guarana, caffeine (120 milligrams), teas, B vitamins, vitamin C, as well as some others. The kick is lackluster, lasting two hours at most. In the end, Arizona Watermelon is misguided but harmless.

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Arnold Palmer Natural Energy Drink Review

How this version of Arizona's Arnold Palmer energy is any different from their previous Drive version is beyond me, aside from the obvious can redesign. It looks better now, emphasising its caffeine content and less to explaining what an "Arnold Palmer" is (the original can felt the need to list "half iced" and "half lemonade," as if the cocktail hasn't been around for almost sixty years). But the label is shrinkwrapped on the can; holding the can is unsatisfying.

Whether the taste has changed since my original review remains a mystery, but the flavor remains just as banal as initially described. There is a flood of sourness to every non-carbonated sip, washing the palate of the former gulp's sting of tea, a slight earthiness that climaxes each quaff. Ten percent juice does little for the flavor, a mostly acidic beverage with the bite of lemonade but without the taste of the lemon. Real sugar, thirteen grams, and Stevia sweeten the experience, but imbibes have the mouthfeel of corn syrup and never taste bitter like the zero-calorie sugar can. Everything here gives the impression of an honest "Arnold Palmer," but the restrictions of mass-produced canned potations put quite the damper on flavor.

Every can contains caffeine (120 milligrams), B vitamins, green tea, guarana, vitamin C, quercetin, and vitamin E. The buzz is bland, lasting an hour and a half and never giving me the urge to play golf.

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Arizona Fruit Punch Natural Energy Drink Review

This big purple can is wall to wall with writing, a large font that makes things easy to read, yes, but any personality, any design or visual interest is blurred behind the tower of text. The color choice of purple is a questionable one, considering the supposed flavor of fruit punch; the traditional punch is a bright red, though I am all for something a bit against the grain here.

The smells of fermented juice cascade out of the can, the cloudy heliotrope colored cocktail unimpressively decants from the shrink-wrapped transport. This Arizona fares far better upon opening gulp, a sharply tart liquid that splashes your palate with vigor, your entire mouth nearly wincing in surprise from the acidic cooler. The actual blend of fruits contains the usual suspects: mango, apple, pear, green grape, and pineapple, but it is a listless creation. Rather than tasting like a complex flavor, composed of many individual flavors, here everything is tasted adjacent each other, one after the other, giving the potation its only character. Things are non-carbonated, which give sips a heavy profile; the mouthfeel's corpulence comes from the coconut water, a thicker texture than anticipated, and something effervescence could have lightened up.

Each can contains B vitamins, vitamin C, guarana, teas, and 120 milligrams of caffeine. Potency is a bit weaker than you would want, but its a decent, hour and a half hour long one. On the whole, Fruit Punch Energy ends up being on the stronger entries from the Arizona brand.

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Arizona Caution Fruit Punch Energy Drink Review

Another Cation drink from Arizona, this time Fruit Punch. Its can is silly despite the "extreme" plastered across and the "RX" logo, several ounces too small and many grams of caffeine too low.

The scent has a thick organic edge, a pungent aroma that burns through the otherwise stale fruit punch perfume. It does not taste much better; a dense texture that crawls across your palate as you gulp. The vitrified twelve ounces are dominated by strawberry and pear, a musty blend lacking both the verisimilitude or the sweetness to be either a natural or a candied, respectively, take on the fruit punch sobriquet. Pineapple and cherry add depth to to each sip, protracted savors lacking refinement, but serendipitously give each mouthful the illusion of nuance. HFCS leave behind a slippery syrupy film as you swallow, and obese and unpleasant slime rich in an abridged aftertaste of this disappointing Arizona potable.

Each can contains: some B vitamins, taurine, caffeine (115 milligrams), inositol, guarana, ginseng, l-carnitine, and milk thistle. The buzz is pretty petty, lasting an hour and a half and is of unspectacular strength. Overall, take the "caution" in the name as a warning.

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Arnold Palmer Drive Performance Energy Drink Review

This tall black can sports the golf-legend proudly, his name written in cursive and at an angle. "Drive" is tossed below it, insinuating, alongside the lower "performance," that this is Arizona's next entry into the energy drink market. It is not necessarily an ugly can, however kids drink the brand's drinks, and there is minimal difference at first glance to warn of this libation's caffeine content.

This fifteen and a half-ounce potation sips smoothly but with zero pizzazz; the tea lacking any bitter depth, and the lemonade missing almost all its sourness. What we are left with about two cups of uninteresting water, only the faintest tartness to the even weaker citrusness and the weakest tea taste. A puny twenty three grams of sugar is here, sweetening without conviction and becoming lost in all the tepid wateriness. Ten percentage of juice proves to not be nearly enough, a distracted, distant pulpiness gives each forced mouthfeel too clean of a texture; where is the weight or the diversity? Overall, Arnold Palmer Drive about sums up what is so wrong about canned Arnold Palmers.

Each can contains: caffeine (120 milligrams), guarana, acai querticin, B vitamins and green tea. For almost a sixteen ounce potable, the ingredient-cocktail is paltry; brewing a buzz lasting roughly an hour and a half, only. To end, Arnold Palmer Drive is an interesting but completely misguided excuse of an energy drink.

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Caution Arizona RX Energy Drink Review

Ninety nine cents is too low to criticize this eleven and a half ounce can from Arizona, the company not the state. It is a lot of yellow and some blue and black, with a little red for color, but the whole "caution tape" artifice is unduly underutilized and ultimately underwhelming. What "RX" means is beyond my caring, but it is inclusions like that that keep this beverage from looking as good as it should, or at least, could.

This thick potion contains ten percent of many juices, all sterilized into a pedestrian pulp of desolate and dense dimensionlessness. Imagine a punch between mango, lemon and lime, but abduct all authenticity and neuter any playfulness. The ingredient list argues even more fruits frolic here, however each gulp is childish without the fun and all of any depth is forgotten in the libation's wanton nescience. Some sucralose and thirty seven grams of sugar, predominately HFCS, sweeten with unforeseen restraint, but the trade off is a discomposing syrupiness who's saving grace is the product's small sub-sixteen size. Orange blossom honey is probably the best thing about this slender elixir, giving every sip a mature bitterness that softly escalates the experience out of its otherwise dejected puerility.

Each can contains: taurine, caffeine (144 milligrams) l-carnitine, ginseng, inositol, guarana, B vitamins, milk thistle and 150 calories. The kick is quite decent considering the quality of the rest of the drink, lasting about two hours, perhaps two and a half. In the end, the name is right: you should approach Caution Arizona RX with plenty of caution.

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Arizona Rx Energy Herbal Tonic Review

Arizona Rx Energy is an ugly misrepresentation of the industry, with it pulling all the wrong moves in terms of both text and visuals. Hailing itself as an herbal tonic, this 330 calorie beverage is far from healthy, and anything positive brought about by the meager ten percentage of juice is lost within the careless load of sugar. And pictorially, you could not get much less appealing than this ninety nine cent drink, with the large lackluster black and white image only adding to the miserableness of an inappropriately verbose can.

To be honest, all of the ample available sips are rather pleasant, with its light citrus taste barely breaking out of that of the green tea. Everything is surprisingly smooth, almost incredibly so, and large gulps ensue and finish the twenty three ounces fast. There is an edge of tartness to the sweet taste of mango, though it is a dissatisfying depiction of the tropical favourite. Lemon is present as well, a bit more potent to the tongue, and it benefits from the latter's acidic characteristic. I'd even wager the simple presence of guava, and the restrictively rough texture gives the three tastes a pulp allusion that is easily their only essence of authenticity. Things are surely sugary, some from honey but mostly from high fructose corn syrup, however the experience basks in the saccharinity almost proudly, and the expected syrupy finish is playfully present and does not keep one from ever taking the next sip. Overall, Arizona Rx Energy's flavour is one that is unashamed to be such a guilty pleasure.

Each can gets you 115mg of caffeine, guarana, ginseng, and vitamins A,C, and E. This bland blend could not ever dream of giving a junkie their daily fix, providing nothing but an hour, maybe hour and a half long buzz. All in all, Arizona Rx Energy is a tasty mess of uneven quality.

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Arizona RX Energy Shot Review

Arizona RX Energy Shot thankfully resembles the company's flagship products, but it feels more like it was inspired by rather than being a simple condensing of them. This allows the design to be quickly identified by fans of the line, though that isn't to say that it is problem free. It's mainly the cluttering at the bottom, with the true but trite statements congesting the otherwise cleanly organized bottle. Also, utilizing the term "fast shot" is confusing, especially since it follows a clearer word, and it doesn't seem as if it was at all required.

The smoothness of Arizona RX was very surprising, and this fluidity is admiringly retained throughout. The actual flavour initially mimics lemon laudably, with a slight sourness that runs subjacently. Additionally there's a minor tartness that is on display, and while it isn't fundamentally necessitated by or with the little yellow fruit, it indirectly elaborates further upon the depth of it as well as partially polishing it. But expectedly, the taste of the employed green tea rears onto the palate, however it's pleasantly mild and braids terrifically with the citrus. The tea's natural flavour gives the entire experience a grounded sense of realism without tacking on any sort of bitter or disagreeableness, and it doesn't feel secondary to the subsistence of the lemon. Sugar, honey, and sucralose are all embraced, and the first two are enough to instill believability as well as mask any undesired taste from the latter, who is bestowed to further the sweetening. Overall, Arizona RX's pleasing simplicity renders it focused and wonderful to drink.

Each bottle contains: various B vitamins, taurine, guarana, ginseng, and an undisclosed amount of caffeine. The felt buzz was two or so hours of length, and was both jitter and crash free. In the end and for an energy shot, the dollar to purchase Arizona RX Shot was a dollar well spent, given how the quality was spread rather evenly up until the kick.

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AZ Energy Drink Review

AZ's can is graphically similar to that of AZ Low Cal, with the most notable change being the swap from a white to a black background. The latter colour has a great track record when it comes to improving can designs, and while that's generally the case here, I did find one problem with it; you can't easily see the crown that adorns the letter "A." The result is a logo that feels like the backdrop couldn't contain itself and is now manifesting all that's near. But other than this quibble, the can does supply a sort of royal sophistication that's otherwise unhindered.

AZ begins with a tangerine flavour who's edges are crusted by a coy though distinctly earthy tea-like taste. The tea flavour is vastly similar, if not weaker, to that of many of the companies other products, and the tangerine's taste is more candied than it is natural. This honeyed quality, however, is countered by the organic presence that the attached tea taste has, and this disallows the resulting flavour to have a clear mind. Both lemon and lime are then dispensed from the former, and the two initially are seemingly simply adjacent fruits, but below the surface you'll discover that the lemon does most of the actual flavouring, and the lime instills any tart and sourness within the other citrus fruit. This partnership creates an interesting lemon flavour that's highly reminiscent of lime, and the taste has far more depth and creativity to it than your typical lemon lime soda. Mild notes of two fruits follow, the two being pear and mango, and the antecedent has a slight oily mouth felt texture that doesn't permit any growth or development. The mango, however, thrives within the limits of remaining a note, and it subsequently boarders evolving into one of the mainstream tastes, but it collapses, along with the rest of the experience, before it gains the chance. The unique though flawed braiding of various flavours disclaims your attention from ever extending to the drink's carbonation, and the sweetness level overall was also censored from major notice. In the end, AZ Energy's flavour is cluttered and unfocused, but regardless, it was more enjoyable than one that was predictable and routine.

Like the earlier variety, AZ gave me an above average kick. It lasted four hours and wasn't one that provided jitters. Each can contains: caffeine(200mg), inositol, taurine, guarana, ginseng, vitamin C, and several B vitamins. All in all, AZ Energy does a lot right in terms of originality, as that's what both its taste and can were ample in, but the two also require some refinements to make it an exceptional product.

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AZ Low Carb Energy Drink Review

AZ Low Carb is the second energy drink by Arizona that I've come across, the first being All City. And although the can size has been shrunk an oz., AZ tosses the whole shrink wrapped label in favour of a printed one, which gives the can a more professional feel. The design is clean and attractive, and despite giving the eyes a lot to digest, it never looks cluttered or busy. Unlike the previous Arizona energy drink, AZ is carbonated and instead of containing tea, it contains juice, albeit only three percent.

The flavour begins a rough orange taste which results in a mildly crude mouth feel. The orange's roughness contains an underlap organic quality that produces an unwelcome ripened characteristic to the fruit. The orange itself is initially bland but eventually gains a weak sweetness and tartness. This provokes some excitement, but it still tastes banal and doesn't adequately counter the prior organic trait. There's a distinct backdrop of mango that partially elevates the sweetness and adds a slight tangy bite. The mango is underlined by an artificially sweetened peach that provides more coarse texture. The peach has a feeble depth of apple that's verged along side, but it doesn't survive for long and is quickly lost within an engulfing of harsh carbonation that proceeds to finish the experience. Overall, while AZ Low Carb never went down with much ease, each sip was enjoyable to a point, and was a decently unique flavour.

AZ Low Carb's ingredient cocktail definitely hits all the right spots: caffeine(200mg), taurine, vitamin C, inositol, several B vitamins, ginseng, and guarana. I had energy lasting around four hours, with slight jitters and a slight crash. In the end, while it didn't provide an exceptional taste and despite being a bit weaker than its predecessor All City, AZ Low Carb is an overall improvement over the aforementioned.

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All City

The year was 2006(I believe). I was on a road trip when I stopped at a small convenience store a couple of hours away from where I live. While browsing their selection of energy drinks I noticed three distinct cans sitting in a cooler. They were the three cans to All City NRG. Years passed and I never saw nor heard anything involving All City until a recent trip to Big Lots. They had all three different cans to All City, and being an energy drink can collector, I picked up two of them. In case your wondering, All City comes in three different cans despite having the same flavour. Yes it is weird, lets move on. Since the suspense has been building since 2006, I have to say that I'm excited to finally try and review All City. Being a fan of the parent company Arizona Tea I expect nothing short of greatness.

FIRST IMPRESSION: At first glance it is hard not to like the can. The bizarre graffiti-like pattern looks great and fits the image that All City is going for. But once you hold the can in your hand I'm sure that your opinion of the can will change, and not for the better. See, All City's can design isn't printed on the can, and instead the design is shrink wrapped, similar to the vitaminenergy line. Let me ask a perfectly good question, why would Arizona even consider shrink wrapping a great design? Though the shrink wrap is well shrunk, I can't get past such an idiotic move. Hey, if drinks can have shrink wrapped designs, why not other things? Imagine cereal boxes, lamp shades, video game discs, and scratch tickets all shrink wrapped? Yeah, things would suck. All in all, the can could of been great, but one major flaw prevented it.

TASTE: I opened the can and took a sip. Surprisingly All City isn't carbonated. While it makes sense given that it is made by Arizona, it still isn't too common. The flavour starts out a smooth blend mainly consisting of blueberry, pomegranate, and orange that eventually fades, leaving a minor bitter tea taste behind. The blue berry starts the flavour but doesn't last too long as the pomegranate gains control. The pomegranate lasts a while but doesn't overstay its welcome. Once the pomegranate fades a light orange taste develops. The orange taste steadily decreases in power as the flavour goes on. None of these flavours are very sweet, which I feel is a disappointment as it could have offset the mild bitterness. There are some notes of apple and cranberry through out the flavour, but they are rather unnoticeable. There's a slight syrupy coating left in your mouth, but it is nothing compared to Black Jack Gunpowder Tea, but it is still noticeable. The overall flavour is hard to drink in large gulps, so I strongly recommend small sips. All in all, while the flavour may be interesting, it's just too syrupy, bitter and hard to drink to call good.

KICK: Each can contains: 2000mg of Taurine, 300mg of caffeine, 200mg of ginseng, inositol, guarana, glucuronolactone, 100% of your daily intake of Vit. C, and 200% of your daily intake of Vit. B12, Vit. B6, and Pantothenic acid. This blend of ingredients gave me a great buzz. For around four to five hours my mental presence was raised and I got a slight case of the jitters.

FINAL WORD: Overall, I feel that All City is a below than great energy drink. With an underdeveloped taste and shrink wrapped can not even the great kick could save this drink from failing. Being a fan of Arizona tea I expected nothing but excellency, but what I got was a big disappointment. All the flaws in All City could of easily been avoided. If the design was printed on the can and they just added energy ingredients to a preexisting Arizona tea flavour this drink could of been terrific, but no, they chose to screw it up. All in all, All City had potential but sadly it just- "Hey Caffeine King, I'm really happy for you, and I'ma let you finish, but ED Junkie has the best review site of all time-" Hey Kanye West get the hell out of here. Anyway, like I was saying, All City had potential, but it just ended up being a calami-tea of an energy drink...2.5/5

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