Sunshine Citrus Lime Sparkling Energy Water Review

The Sunshine brand is back, with three new varieties sporting a new gimmick, sparkling water. The idea is a good one, combining the juggernaut energy drink category with the popular seltzer stuff, yet the design here communicating very little about its caffeinated nature. Oh sure, it reads "energy" in the middle of the can, but the happy-go-lucky attitude does not insinuate its potential potency.

The flavor is an absolute joy, each mouthful demonstrating restraint from both aggression and commercialism. What sets this apart from most products you see promising "sleep in a can" is the complete lack of sweeteners, natural or artificial. Sips fool the mind into looking at their palm for a fresh peel of citrus only to find a twelve ounce can. This refreshing bite works for the exhausted palate, crisp and refreshing on a sunny day, but the unprepared consumer could easily find themselves feeling fooled by the ambiguous artifice. The flavors themselves have some sweetness fortunately, particularly with the lemon, the produce that launches the opaque experience before succumbing to the onslaught of the namesake lime. This powerful puck of piquancy flourishes in the abrasive bubbles of the sparkling effervescence, where your mouth curls from the sourness and your tongue seeks an escape from the unusual pacing and performance of the potable.

This is where things fall apart: each can contains just seventy milligrams of caffeine. D, A, C, E, and numerous B vitamins do come to us with 100% of their daily value, but the hour long buzz just is not as curiously demanding as the taste.

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