Gatorade, of all companies, tosses its hand in the energy drink ring with Fast Twitch. The name is clunky and to my knowledge, has nothing to do with the parent product, but whatever. As The Caffeine King's resident non-doctor, I am unsure of the validity of caffeinated workout drinks; are they healthy? I dunno, and the internet is only so accurate, but the bottle does have the "NSF certified sports" logo, so clearly someone, somewhere, thinks so.
"Cool Blue" is not a flavor, it is a combination of two descriptors. Not only that, but the color is more of a dark purple, but I digress. Upon first sip, we are hit with a wall of synthetic sweetness, all from sucralose. It fails to even resemble something not found from a lab, seizing your tongue into complete submission, leaving it deadened in your mouth. It just takes the pounding of diet sugariness until that is all you taste, no acidity to come to the rescue, which honestly should have been a present characteristic regardless. Blue raspberry and blueberry are the fruits who end up actually showing up, but who cares? Your palate is so disenfranchised by this point that it would have taken an entirely different energy drink to revive it.
We do have a very solid 200 milligrams of caffeine, along with some B vitamins and electrolytes, and the buzz is pretty good three hour long one. But it was honestly an awful journey to get there. Overall, Gatorade Fast Twitch Cool Blue sucks eggs.
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